Job Vacancies at Flare Emergency Response

Job description

We are a fast growing startup that is transforming emergency response. We are looking for a seasoned Designer to join our team, with a minimum of 4 years of experience working in cutting-edge design or communications.

You should understand how a company's vision ties into brand, language, graphics, and communication, and should be comfortable with big-picture thinking as well as getting things done quickly. Big plus if you've worked with copy and are a good writer.

This is a full-time position, can be remote, but can not be consultancy or part-time.

You should enjoy the small, agile, and growing team environment. And you should enjoy working with all types of people, not take yourself too seriously, and be comfortable with feedback, failure, and collaboration.

If applying, please explain your Design experience and please provide examples of your best work, as well as detail how you have collaborated (communicated, brainstormed, etc) in previous work experiences.

Please do not apply if you do not match the minimum qualifications or send incomplete work samples.

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Job description

We are a team building innovative life-saving emergency response products for Africa and are looking for our front-end code master with a crazy eye and passion for design.

Must be very solid in React, Redux, HTML(5), CSS(&frameworks) and Javascript.

It is important that our products convey in their design: reliability, efficiency, professionality, and are elegant and easy to use.

If you love:

• usability
• UX and UI
• accessibility
• being pixel perfect
• responsive design
• and keeping up with the latest design ideas, patterns, and usability inspirations.
• If you find testing your design against different browsers (within reason) and screen sizes second nature.
• And your animations are smooth and amazing.
• And if you are a team player: Love sharing, and learning from your experience and those around you.
• And if you want to be part of a creative and technical team — through briefings,
  brainstorms, stand-ups.
  And a startup, where there are lots of kick-offs, late nights, and fun times.

If:

• you offer advice.
• you take guidance.
• you prefer to work with others rather than alone, regardless of their skill level or area of focus.
• and you love creating amazing products.

Please reach out!

We are looking to grow our team and we need a skilled front-end code master/ninja/superhero with design skills like a pro.

Our products are tools for first responders on the African continent beginning in Nairobi!

We are a small team (partly in-house, partly distributed), and we are working to design and build a fun, solid, and passionate internal or distributed development team to take the product to the next level. You should have great collaboration and management experience and enjoy the small, agile, and growing team environment. And you should enjoy working with all types of people, not take yourself too seriously, and be comfortable with feedback, failure, and collaboration.