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  • Posted: May 28, 2018
    Deadline: May 28, 2018
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    We are a local news website in Kenya, currently active in 10 locations: Nakuru, Kiambu, Machakos, Kisii, Nyamira, Kisumu, Uasin Gishu, Garissa, Mombasa and also Kibera (Nairobi). Readership is free. Anyone in society can submit a short local news story (or news photo) and we'll send them Sh100 on M-Pesa if it's published. Some news contributors alread...
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    Senior Front-End Engineer

    Current Stack: Express Node.js, Java 8, Elasticsearch, SQL, Spring framework (Spring-boot, Spring data, Spring security, Spring XD), Redis, Angular

    Job Requirements

    • 6+ years experience in software development
    • 2+ years experience with Express
    • Fluent in English with excellent written and verbal communication skills
    • You are:
    • An express ninja obsessed with crisp user experiences and maintainable code
    • Ready to tackle challenges end to end and learn new skills
    • Excited to develop, coach, and lead future team members
    • Passionate about establishing good dev practices and improving the code base
    • Detail oriented and capable of taking crude designs and building them into complete features
    • Interested in the participation of the selection, design, implementation, and evaluation of features
    • You enter conversations with strong opinions, weakly held

    Job Responsibilities

    • You’ll be the lead developer for our existing reader facing site. With over 3.5 million monthly readers your work will have immediate impact.
    • You will A/B test impactful features that will improve key engagement metrics and delight our readers.
    • Whether it is suggesting the perfect next article to read, having a tailored layout for dumb phones on Opera Mini, or inferring a reader’s interests based on their location, you will be pivotal in discovering what moves the needle.
    • You will own our Node.js code base and will be responsible for elegantly structuring and evolving the project.

    Experience:

    • Heroku, ElasticSearch, Continuous Integration, Angular, Linux, Redis, Opera Mini, Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Kibana, Facebook Ads, Facebook APIs
    • Ad networks (Google Ads, Monetize More, Taboola)
    • News media or blog sites and related challenges such as time sensitive SEO
    • Experience working on sites with millions of pageviews per day, load testing, scaling

    Method of Application

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