Frontend Engineer Job at Korapay

Korapay is a payment infrastructure servicing a wide band of businesses making local and international payments. We are a marketplace for digital financial services across Africa. Our vision, which is at the core of what we do every day, is to create a world void of digital financial barriers across Africa. We are committed to delivering reliable, secure, and easy to use digital financial solutions to every single customer with a guarantee that it is improving their lives.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Frontend Engineer

Job Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full time
Department: Engineering


Description
Here are a couple of things you'll be doing:

  • Create and maintain our external and internal web apps.
  • Collaborate with other engineers to spec, write, test, and deploy production-ready code.
  • Own features throughout their life cycle, from inception to supporting production.
  • You'll review code and ensure best practices are employed in our web apps to ensure they're maintainable.
  • Brainstorm features with product managers and designers and guides decisions based on your knowledge of the codebase.
  • Collaborate with your teammates, learn from them and teach them.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of experience building production frontend applications with Javascript (and Typescript), React.
  • Experience optimizing the client-side JavaScript performance of large-scale, high-volume systems.
  • Experience with unit and integration testing, and testing frameworks/libraries.
  • Experience with modern browser technologies.
  • Experience with using REST APIs and integrating them properly within frontend applications
  • A passion for great user experience and is obsessed with bringing product designs to life, even the tiny details.
  • An eye for details and pays great attention, especially around performance, accessibility, reliability, security, and maintainability for our frontend applications.
  • The ability to work effectively with a team of Product Managers, Product Designers, and other Engineers.
  • Empathy, a collaborative spirit, a sense of humor and a positive attitude.

Technologies we use:

  • Javascript
  • React, Redux, React-Query
  • SCSS
  • Jest and React Testing Library.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Stock Options
  • Sponsored and Tailored training
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Paid Time Off
  • Flexible Work Style
  • Internet Allowance
  • Annual Performance Bonus
  • Pension Plan
  • The opportunity to work with a highly collaborative team-building something great!