Senior Front End Developer

Ignition Group

Western Cape
Permanent
Full-time

20 days ago

Front-End Development:

Build well-rounded, semantically correct front-end user interfaces and features using Astro, React, and MarkoJS.
Write clean, maintainable, and easy-to-understand code.

Quality Assurance:

Write unit, integration, or end-to-end tests to minimize bugs.
Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve bugs to maintain high-quality code and application performance.

Tools and Pipeline Management:

Set up and maintain tools using Webpack, Gulp, Vite, Docker, GitHub Actions & Runners.
Assist with setup and debugging of CI/CD pipelines.

Legacy System Support:

Maintain a legacy front-end application (MarkoJS) during its deprecation phase.

Collaboration and Mentorship: * Contribute to a culture of best practices and collaborate to maintain the technical quality and simplicity of our software.

Assist Junior and Intermediate developers.

Documentation: * Write and maintain documentation.Agile Teamwork:Work as part of an agile team to groom, prepare, and plan sprint work.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related fields.
At least 5 years of experience in front-end (web) software development.
Strong experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
Experience in breaking complex solutions into smaller, reusable modules.
Ability to create high quality front-end user interfaces and experiences.
Well versed in web performance optimisation.
Well versed in Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Competent with reactive web frameworks like React and Astro.
Competent with NodeJS.
Competent with version control and Git.

Knowledge, skills and attributes:

Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug and troubleshoot code.
Able to take ownership of projects and drive them to completion.

Ability to work in a team.
Good verbal and written communications skills.
A good problem solver.
Inquisitive nature and drive to understand and solve problems
Strong understanding of web development concepts such as Web Security Vulnerabilities, Cross Site Scripting (XSS) and CORS.
Experience with web development architectures such as single page applications (SPAs), progressive web applications (PWA), Model-View-Controller (MVC), server-side rendering (SSR), micro front-ends, module federation and resumability.
Extensive experience with build tools like Vite, Webpack and Gulp.
Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and processes.
Familiar with Linux
HTML, CSS and JavaScript
React and NodeJS
REST and GraphQL APIs
Express
BONUS: Familiarity with MarkoJS
BONUS: Experience with AWS and Azure

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