About the Front End Engineer Role

• We are looking for a driven, passionate, and committed individual to join the team as we grow and expand across Africa and beyond. As a Front End Engineer, you will manage and seamlessly blend front-end and back-end web development.
• You will also be responsible for implementing visual and interactive elements that users engage with through their web browser when using our products and the translation of the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of the application.

What Your Day to Day Activities Will Be

• Develop new user-facing features.
• Create innovative solutions to web design issues to help make the application more visually appealing and enhance the usability.
• Ensure quick updates on our products to make them effective.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
• Ensure troubleshooting and fixing issues on a product’s Front End.
• Produce application architecture design translated from high-level product/user requirements.
• Design, develop and deliver code that can support new product features/enhancements in an agile environment.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end.
• Develop a plan, process, and timeline for development projects.
• Analyze, design, and develop tests and test-automation suites.
• Provide ongoing maintenance, support, and enhancements in existing systems and platforms.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with users, project managers, product managers, and other engineers to achieve elegant solutions.
• Provide recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Work alongside other engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices.
• Attend developer events 
• Contribute towards the team, department, and company goals.

Required Competency and Skillset to be a Waver

• Proven work experience in Software Engineering.
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the organization’s product and service offerings.
• In-depth understanding of VueJs, HTML and SASS CSS.
• Understanding of microservice architecture.
• Knowledge of writing unit tests.
• Knowledge of continuous integration and delivery.
• Strong DevOps focus and experience building and deploying infrastructure with cloud deployment technologies.
• Capable of delivering on multiple competing priorities with little supervision
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Attitude to work.
• Ability to grasp project requirements quickly.