Senior Frontend Developer (React) at Decagon

Reports to: CTO

Background

• We are looking for a self driven, innovative Senior Frontend Engineer to join our team. This is a strategic role that will enable you to take the lead in steering teams towards our vision through implementation of our growth strategy and product execution. 

Duties / Responsibilities

• Work in an agile and iterative way in collaboration with the CTO, product manager, designers and fellow front and backend engineers to design and implement theme-able SDKs on various platforms using web, Android and iOS.
• Provide well-structured, re-usable, easily-readable, well documented, testable and efficient code.
• Take the lead in drafting unit and integration tests, and implement automated GUI testing.
• Communicate and collaborate closely with the team while adhering to our development process and using our employed tools.
• Perform regular code reviews.
• Provide leadership and mentorship to the developers team.
• Improve code quality as a response to receiving code reviews, but also as you find problems yourself.
• Take charge of the Quality Assurance aspect of our processes and  products.
• Identify tools and methodologies which might help improve the product and/or development process.
• Envision and propose longer term technological goals and approaches, and identify appropriate existing technological platforms and solutions towards their realisation.

Requirements / Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree  in Software Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.
• You know core Javascript (advanced) and DOM manipulation
• At least 3 years of experience in building non-trivial applications in Javascript using React.
• HTML & Advanced CSS, SCSS.
• Know how to convert UI to responsive markup.
• React using the latest React technologies like Hooks, Redux, Animation etc.
• Automated Testing.
• Build tools like Webpack.
• Basic Algorithm and Data structure. 

Benefits of Working at Decagon

• Decagon offers an energized, upbeat work environment that strongly fosters employee work-life balance.
• A work culture that rewards goal-oriented professionals who enjoy meeting challenges head-on.
• Great/ Flexible work culture - as long as you get the work done.
• Amazing personal growth experience - at one of the fastest growing start-ups in Nigeria.
• Pension and Health Plan.
• Working with a motivated and talented team, plus regular team events.
• More importantly, an opportunity to transform the Software Engineering Ecosystem within Nigeria and beyond.