Front-End JavaScript React Developer

Roles and Responsibilities

The primary role of the Front-End JavaScript React Developer is to work in a team of engineers to deliver user interfaces, such as control panels, dashboards, websites, or web applications, within larger software applications. The position has the following responsibilities:

1. Prepare prototypes based on UI/UX wireframes, designs, markups, and styling for approval from senior engineers and/or clients
2. Develop, test, document, deploy, operate and/or maintain front-end JavaScript web applications
3. Work to ensure well-executed data governance and compliance with data privacy and security standards as required
4. Implement application monitoring functionality to gather feedback to improve application reliability and performance
5. Working with mobile application developers, when needed, to standardise user experiences across platforms

Knowledge and Technical Skill Requirements

Mandatory

• Proficiency at an advanced level in working with JavaScript, React, Redux, Express, Node, NVM/NPM, HTML5, CSS, SASS/SCSS, Twitter Bootstrap, WebSocket, and NGINX
• Proficiency in integrating front-end applications with data platforms and back-end REST APIs

Preferred

• Working knowledge of server-side rendering or static generation processes with Next
• Working knowledge of gRPC, asynchronous request handling and partial page updates
• Working knowledge of React Native and mobile application development

Experience and Qualification Requirements

• Degree or certification in a mathematical, scientific, engineering, or associated interdisciplinary field or equivalent experience
• 2 years of professional front-end development experience with React and JavaScript

Munyongo is an industrial, financial, data and software engineering company with additional expertise in mathematical modelling and operations research. We believe that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, can play a big role in securing the futures of our society and environment; we offer our knowledge and skills to endeavours working to do the same.

Munyongo has the potential to be an interesting place to work and perhaps even build a career. The projects in our portfolio are diverse in application yet similar in the underlying knowledge and capabilities required to execute them well.