Snapplify is an ed-tech company, specialising in the enablement of digital learning by establishing a marketplace for digital education content, related educational services, and devices.

We are the largest ebook aggregator and distributor in Africa with an ebook offering of over 240 000 titles from over 250 publishers. We work with over 1000 schools across Africa, offering them digital education tools.

What are we looking for?

We are expanding our development team and we are looking to add a talented JavaScript Front End Developer to our team to design and build the next generation of digital applications by developing and maintaining web based applications. If details matter to you and you have a thirst for knowledge - we like you already!

What will my day-to-day key responsibilities be?
? Design, build and maintain reader based platforms of the Snapplify product.
? Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
? Unit-Test all codes for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
? Bug fixing and improving application performance.
? Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development
efficiency.
? Adhere to company product methodology and processes (Agile/SCRUM).
? Contribute to company product architecture.
? Produce quality code under the guidance of the Lead Developer.
? Taking part in any training and development opportunities the company provides.
? Staying up to date and implement critical changes to the development technologies used by the
Company.

Qualifications
? Diploma/Degree in Software Development or similar

Skills/Knowledge required
? 5 years overall development experience
? HTML and CSS (Standard LESS, SCSS or has knowledge of compiled CSS)
? 3 years JavaScript
? Ability to problem-solve
? Basic IT hardware/software skills
? Good people skills
? Strong written and verbal communication
? Good attention to detail
? Working with remote data via REST and JSON
? Building HTML/CSS components
? , NPM and build scripts
? Transpiled JavaScript (Babel etc)
? Source control
? Command line usage
? Using REST API interfaces
? Grunt or similar
? ,Electron or similar
? framework
? or similar
? TypeScript or other transpiled JS

What’s in it for you?
? There’s plenty of room for you to grow and potentially take on more responsibilities.
? Competitive, marketed-related salary
? For the right person, there is also the opportunity to work from home from time to time …
? Working with a team of developers who possess the passion to push technology to the next level!