Junior Frontend Developer at Well Told Story

We are seeking to recruit a Junior Frontend Developer to join our Digital team working on cutting edge youth focused products.

Based in our Kenya office the role will be responsible for combining the art of design with the art of programming.

The role will involve translation of the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of the application.

Key responsibilities:

• Conduct developer white and black box testing as well as user acceptance testing with the customer, to ensure that the solution meets the expectation of the users and is hence accepted;
• Working with Designers, UX and Back End Engineers to ensure that applications are built with clean, beautiful and intuitive interfaces;
• Work closely with design, product management and development teams to create elegant, usable, responsive and interactive interfaces across multiple devices;
• Turning UI/UX designs into prototypes, creating awesome interactions from designs, writing reusable content modules and maintainability of the code;
• Building web interfaces using HTML, CSS and JavaScript;
• Writing clean and tested front end code; and
• Implement UI development principles to ensure that the product client-side serves at scale.

Person specifications

• At least one-year recent hands-on coding experience as a web developer, UI developer, JavaScript expert or frontend engineer using React JS or similar frameworks.
• Bachelor’s degree in a computer science or related field, or an intriguing reason for not having one.
• Solid OOP and software design knowledge – you should know how to create software that’s extensible, reusable and meets desired architectural objectives.
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests.
• Agile process management JIRA/VSTS and proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.