Front End Engineer at Flutterwave

About the Front End Engineer Role:
As Frontend Engineer, you will manage and seamlessly blend front-end and back-end web development. You will be responsible for implementing visual and interactive elements that users engage with through their web browser when using our products. 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:

• Attend developer events.
• Develop new user-facing features.
• Create innovative solutions to web design issues to help make the application more visually appealing and enhance usability.
• Ensure quick Updates on our products application to make them effective.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
• Ensures Troubleshooting and fixing issues on a product’s Frontend.
• Produce application architecture design translated from high-level product/user requirements
• Design, develop and deliver code that can support new product feature/enhancements in an agile environment.
• Optimise application for maximum speed and scalability.
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end.
• Develop plan, process and timeline for development projects.
• Analyse, 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.
• Contribute towards 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 organisation’s product and service offerings.
• In-depth understanding of software development languages like html and nodejs
• In-depth understanding of software development frameworks like angular, vuejs and react
• Understanding of micro service 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 quickly learn new technologies
• Attitude to work
• Ability to grasp project requirements quickly

Key Performance Indicators:

• Timeliness of product build
• Clarity of documentation
• Quality of written codes
• Customer Satisfaction with product
• Short Cycle time (Time spent working on an issue)
• High velocity rate (Number of features delivered in a period)
• Fast backlog burn rate
• QA Kickback rate
• No of escaped bugs
• Defect removal efficiency
• Response time to customers enquiries and complaints across all channels