Senior Front-End Engineer at Gumi & Company

Location Nairobi, Kenya; Dakar, Senegal; London, UK; Lagos, Nigeria
Reporting to Senior Engineering Manager
Contract Full time, permanent
Equal Opportunities We are an equal opportunities employer and commitment to this process will be expected

Our client
A global fintech company whose offerings include the provision of payment and trading solutions to clients. The company is seeking to recruit a Senior Front-End Engineer.
Role Overview

We are looking for a skilled and resourceful Senior Front-End Engineering professional based in any of the locations above to join our rapidly growing team.
Main Responsibilities/Deliverables

• Innovating, developing, maintaining, and contributing to the company’s existing codebase and associated applications
• Synergizing with engineering leads to assist with architecture decisions for application and supporting infrastructure
• Mentoring, training, and supporting other engineers to help develop in-house front-end development skills.

The Person

• Experience Preferably with a minimum of 5 years working as a Senior Frontend Engineer
• Proven proficiency JavaScript, Typescript specifically React
• Good knowledge on APIs, specifically using them as data sources for frontend applications
• Familiarity with deploying and managing frontend applications on the cloud in an automated way
• Good knowledge of current JavaScript standards (ES6+)
• Proven proficiency using automated JavaScript testing frameworks Proficient with CSS3 and related
• tools/methodologies such as Less and/or Sass, CSS modules, CSS-in-JS etc.

Other skills and traits

• A strong and flexible work ethic
• Good knowledge of software deployment tooling and orchestration
• Good knowledge of cloud providers, especially AWS
• Good knowledge of source control using Git
• Familiarity with logging, monitoring and alerting tools
• Familiarity with the agile development methodology specifically Scrum
• Familiarity with DevOps principles, especially the 12 Factor App and Infrastructure as Code
• Familiarity with container architecture, especially Docker
• Preference to participate in pair-programming and using GitHub pull requests to review the code of others
• Confidence in refactoring and working with both new and existing codebases