Software Engineer (Frontend)              at First Excelsia

Industry: Tech

Location: Lekki, Lagos

Our client, an innovative research and development company with trendsetting products in the education and health sector is seeking to recruit for the role of a Frontend Engineer to grow the business in line with the company's overall strategy of driving more customers and more user cases backed with a superlative learning experience.

The primary activities of the role will be to implement visual elements that users see and interact within a web application. The ideal role holder will work with the latest technology, work closely with backend and data engineers, a small team of talented and passionate engineers, to provide easy-to-use and well documented frontend applications.

Job Description:

• Use a variety of programming languages in order to create user-friendly web pages
• Maintain and improve the company website and all existing projects and products
• Work in multidisciplinary team with other professionals such as back-end developers, data engineers  and web designers
• Optimize our web applications for maximum speed
• Design mobile-based features
• Always stay consistent with brand guidelines
• Make suggestions for better solutions to problems
• Keep abreast of latest and emerging technologies
• Attend training and education.
• Make the platform look and work a little bit better every day.
• Implement designs and work together with our UX designer.
• Taking lead on projects, as needed.
• Coach your teammates and provide them with constructive feedback
• Actively spot and report issues and work on fixing and refactoring code where needed.
• Come up with new functionalities, tools, technologies and actually build them.
• Improve legacy code as well as writing new functionalities from scratch
• Respond to the PR review requests of your colleagues.
• Eager to learn new tools & languages and share your knowledge with the team.

Person Specification:

• Good years of experience as a Front-end Developer.
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript)
• Great experience with multiple JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Vuejs)
• Excellent knowledge of browser troubleshooting and debugging practices and techniques
• Knowledge of some SEO principles and experience with markup languages.
• Strong understanding of the web development cycle and programming techniques and tools.
• Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement.
• Experience with micro-services or highly scalable infrastructure is highly preferred.