Snr Front End Developer required in Cape Town to implement front-end JavaScript coding at a senior level with a focus on performance, maintainability and testable code. Degree + 5 Years’ experience in JavaScript is required together with tons of willingness to be awesome! You are very proficient in coding plain JavaScript from scratch and understands inheritance in JavaScript and advanced JavaScript techniques.

Key duties:
• Your primary focus will be to implement front-end JavaScript coding at a senior level with a focus on performance, maintainability and testable code.
• Your main duties will include creating modules and components and coupling them together into a functional site.
• The design will be delivered to you, but you will work closely with the designers and back-end developers, and communicate primarily with the API using standard methods, as well as be expected to make modifications to the existing code.
• Apply best practice and ensure stability and security of the applications.

Qualifications:
• Information Technology or Science Degree.
• Minimum 5 years of experience.
Attributes required:
• You have a natural affinity for well-structured HTML, CSS and JavaScript code and follow best practice to create responsive web front ends that deliver an experience that delights our customer.
• You are a passionate skilled JavaScript engineer, and will be part of a team responsible for the development of our customer facing mobile and desktop websites.
• You have thorough understanding and experience with JavaScript coding and related frameworks and tools, HTML & CSS ,web architecture, various caching layers and communication protocols between the different components.
• You have a desire to help design, develop and refine new features, brainstorm new ideas and concepts as well as locate and resolve bugs and crashes
• You must be comfortable on the command line, locally and remotely (SSH) in a *nix-based environment.
• You have a minimum of 5+ years of experience as a Front-end developer writing code.
• You are very proficient in coding plain JavaScript from scratch and understands inheritance in JavaScript and advanced JavaScript techniques.
• You appreciate and understand object-oriented programming concepts and have solid experience writing performant front-end code based on MVC JavaScript Frameworks such as AngularJS, React, Vue, Backbone, etc.
• You have a good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• You know strategies and have experience to handle issues related to browser fragmentation, different screen sizes and OS’s.
• You have experience using a source control solution such as Git
Nice to have experience:
• Full stack experience of any sort is a huge plus!
• Experience with Sketch, Zeplin and Photoshop.
• Experience with Google Maps & Firebase.
• Experience with CSS precompilers such as Less or Sass.
• Experience with responsive and/or mobile first interfaces.

The company offers very competitive salaries.
Only apply if you have the relevant experience!

If you have what is required, then please apply with your comprehensive CV and a skills matrix.