Frontend Engineer at d.light

Job Location: Preference for Nairobi but also open to other locations

Reporting to: Head of Software Engineering

Background and Position Description:

As a Senior Frontend Engineer you enjoy making beautiful user interfaces. You have strong opinions based on experience on which frameworks to work on and you know which mistakes to avoid. Good UX design is something you live by and you have the right mind to decide when to use additional tools and frameworks and when to work with vanilla JS. You’ll be the lead developer for our main client-facing portal. With customers distributed around several geographies and languages, your work will have immediate impact. You will A/B test impactful features that will improve key engagement metrics and delight our end users. Whether it is having a tailored layout for dumb phones on Opera Mini, or inferring a reader’s language/locale based on their location, you will be pivotal in discovering what moves the needle. You will own our frontend code base and will be responsible for elegantly structuring and evolving the project.

Key Responsibilities:

• Building scalable and highly usable frontend applications using either or Angular, React, VueJS and Vanilla JS as well as other modern libraries and frameworks.
• Implement High fidelity mocks and bring them to life.
• Designing interfaces which help to solve to the many real world problems we face.
• Help more junior engineers to get up to speed.
• Support in taking correct technology decisions.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Show us why you are suited for this position, rather than just tell us.
• Deeply experienced in Javascript on server and client.
• Good understanding of ES6.
• Current knowledge if the Javascript ecosystem.
• Some experience with TypeScript.
• Experience with unit testing and continuous integration.
• Deep knowledge of web technologies (REST/HTTP, web sockets, ...).
• Good understanding of popular programming paradigms (e.g. object oriented, functional programming, ...).
• Experience with AWS tools is an asset.
• Experience with product management tools and software, prior experience with Atlassian is an advantage.
• An ability to describe technical details to both engineering and non-engineering audiences.
• Business driven, people focused, with exceptional influencing skills; excellent organizational, multi-tasking, presentation and time-management skills.
• Passion for social enterprise, development of people and environmental benefits.