About the position
Role Summary
The Mid Developer will work closely with the Senior Developer to manage both front-end and back-end development processes, implementing solutions from conception to final product according to business needs. The mid developer is required to implement and oversee the design, develop and maintenance of fully-fledged and functioning platforms
Key Responsibilities
• Work within a Software Development team, following Agile development methodologies.
• Work with Project management and solution architects to estimate and scope out projects.
• Work with Creative team during planning, discovery, and production phase.
• Work with both front-end and back-end development teams to create and optimize solu-tions.
• Optimizing code for performance.
• Comment code and produce documentation to industry standards as needed.
• Produce code to the highest standards while adhering to industry accepted architecture and design pattern techniques and methodologies (e.g., MVC, SOA, OOP, DI etc.)
• Defining and developing API’s.
• Contribute to the analysis and design of software products and tools.
• Evaluate and advise on the technical feasibility.
• Create quality prototypes for a clearer understanding of UI designs.
• Test and confirm software is fit for purpose with intended audiences.
• Recommend and implement refinements and improvements.
• Follow formal Software Engineering best-practices.
• Mentoring and guiding team members
• Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
• Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer
Experience
• At least 4+ years of experience in building Applications
• At least 3+ years of experience with React, TypeScript
• Good understanding of OOPs concepts.
• Strong hands-on knowledge on HTML5, CSS3, ES6+
• Strong understanding of the React Virtual DOM, JSX and API
• Hands on experience on REST APIs, GraphQL and WebSocket
• Experience with a State-management framework like Redux (with middleware) or MobX
• Understanding of cloud-based technologies, Azure, SQL and relational databases, SOAP and REST Web-Services, JSON, XML, MSAL.
• Comfortable with concepts like Container/Presentation components, Higher Order Compo-nents
• Worked with UI libraries like Material-UI, Semantic UI, Bootstrap or similar
• Good understanding of CSS in JS, aka scoped-css or Styled Components
• Unit testing with Karma + Mocha or Jest
• Experience on working with frontend build systems and automating the same using Grunt / Gulp
• Experience on MVC frameworks (Backbone.js, or similar) and knowledge of common JavaS-cript design patterns will be good to have
• Experience of working with server-side JavaScript frameworks based on Node.js
• Exposure to Style Guides, Atomic Design
• Exposure to Scrum and Agile methodologies.
The team will be based in Johannesburg following a hybrid working model.
Desired Skills:
- Systems Analysis
- Complex Problem Solving
- Programming/configuration
- Critical Thinking
- Time Management
