Senior Software Engineer - Frontend (Technology) at Andela

Locations: Lagos, Cairo, Nairobi, Accra, Kampala
Job Type: Remote

What You’ll Do

• In this role, you will work as a Senior Frontend Engineer within the Technology organization, building world-class internal and customer facing products to support Andela’s business needs.
• Our Andelan Senior Engineers are renowned for their technical prowess. They are admired and respected for the depth of their technical expertise.

Specifically, You’ll:

• Use your knowledge in your core technology to delight our partners around the world.
• Be responsible for the coding standards, conduct and deliverables of your fast-paced, distributed, teams, by proactively communicating and prioritizing effectively.
• Act as a role-model even in the most difficult and challenging situations, using constructive feedback, mentorship and universal respect.

What You’ll Bring

• A minimum of 5+ years of professional experience, during which you’ve built deep technical expertise and exercised ownership on various technical teams.

Required:

• Expert-level understanding in building modern Angular based Single Page Applications
• Deep knowledge of JavaScript core language concepts -- DOM manipulation, Fetch API, ES6 features
• Extensive experience working with fundamental front-end languages/technologies, HTML, CSS, Sass (SCSS) framework
• Strong working knowledge in design and management of large scale, secure, cloud based software deployment environments
• Strong ability to problem-solve, debug, and understand pertinent performance metrics
• Extensive experience with architecture and design principles, building to consider maintainability, performance, security requirements, and impact
• Breadth of experience of unit/integration testing, and testing frameworks/libraries
• Comfort working within agile methodologies and experienced in estimation and time management
• Excellent soft skills that enable you to lead and empower your team, and deliver the highest value
• Mentorship experience that helps others in approaching and solving for ambiguous efforts
• Strong understanding of business practices, engineering process, and industry trends

Preferred:
Expertise with the following specific tools:

• Google Cloud Platform
• Frontend UI component library, Angular Material
• Linting tools, ESLint
• Testing frameworks, Jasmine, Karma
• Containerization tools, Docker, Kubernetes
• Cloud based CI / CD tools, CircleCI, CodeClimate