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Interswitch is an Africa-focused integrated digital payments and commerce company that facilitates the electronic circulation of money as well as the exchange of value between individuals and organisations on a timely and consistent basis.
The company started operations in 2002 as a transaction switching and electronic payments processing company that bui...
Brief
We are looking for a qualified Front-end developer/UX Analyst to join our team. You will be responsible for designing & building our web and mobile applications. You should be able to translate our company and customer needs into functional and appealing interactive applications.
We expect you to be a tech-savvy professional with a keen eye for design, who is curious about new digital technologies and aspires to combine usability with visual design.
Ultimately, you should be able to create a functional and attractive digital environment for our company, ensuring great user experiences.
Key Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Define audience needs and translate those into concepts for compelling interactions and user experience.
- Plan user research activities such as participant recruiting and scheduling, materials production, and other logistics; translate research findings into actionable, prioritized recommendations.
- Use markup languages like HTML to create user-friendly web pages and mobile-based features; maintain and improve website and optimize applications for maximum speed.
- Collaborate with back-end developers to improve usability and help with coding and troubleshooting.
- Build solutions for, users and customers and write functional requirement documents and guides
- Create quality sketches, mockups, prototypes and ensure high quality graphic standards and consistency with the Interswitch brand.
- Facilitate design, concept, and prototype sessions; develop an effective and efficient prototyping/storyboard process to communicate user experience visions to stakeholders.
- Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies
Core Requirements
- Proven work experience as a Front-end developer/UI-UX Analyst.
- Experience with HTML5, JavaScript (ES6-ES8), CSS for React Native Style sheets and jQuery
- Hands on experience with markup languages, responsive and adaptive design and REST API implementation
- React navigation framework
- Understanding of stack-, Tab-, Drawer Navigator
- In-app routing
- Asynchronous function handling
- Understanding of Redux principle (Dynamic app state updating)
- Basic understanding of nom module handling (node)
- Component based app development (creating reusable code)
- Familiarity with browser testing and debugging
- In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
- Experience with React Native
- Experience with animation in React Native
- Knowledge of Intractable Library from Wix for React Native
- Native experience for either iOS or Android or both
- UI/UX experience
- Familiarity with software like Adobe Suite, Photoshop, Marvel, Sketch, Proto, Flinto and Content Management Systems like Drupal and WordPress.
- Understanding of layout aesthetics and setting up of icon fonts
- Experience with Vector icon generation
- Knowledge of SEO principles
- An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent analytical and multitasking skills
- Self-development skills to keep up to date with fast-changing trends
- Development tools
- Visual Studio Code (IDE for React Native)
- Xcode (required for iOS builds)
- Android studio (not as development tool, only for SDK management and final store builds)
- Github
- Terminal/Console
- Chrome (live debugging from simulator to device)
- Postman (testing API call
Academic Qualification(s)
Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in any discipline; degrees from Computer Science, Engineering or other relevant fields would be an added advantage.
Professional Qualifications
Any relevant professional qualification
Experience
Minimum of Two (2) years