Junior Frontend Engineer at DevWare

DevWare - Our mission at DevWare is to build the finest pool of Engineers for local and international projects; working with clients to provide simple solutions to complex real-life problems. DevWare bridges the gulf between the growing demand for web developers in Europe and top technical talents in Africa.

Our culture is remote-first, we stay connected every day using Slack and video conferencing tools. Being part of a fast-growing company is exciting: the opportunities to grow and take ownership at DevWare are endless and we’ll make sure you have everything you need to do your best work and make a big impact.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Junior Frontend Engineer
Job Location: Lagos

Job Description

• We're looking for a Frontend Engineer to launch and be part of a small team that will work of user friendly solutions for different classes of customers. We value simple solutions and look for engineers who use a customer first approach to solving problems.

Responsibilities

• Work with a team of developers to write scalable and maintainable web components in JavaScript, HTML, and SASS.
• Build new UI patterns while also refactoring older ones.
• Assist with documentation of new features, contributing to the documentation of existing ones.
• Find and address performance issues in an application.
• Help identify and fix front-end bugs and issues.
• Propose new methods and approaches to old solutions, helping to improve/develop standards.
• Work and collaborate with both the design and backend development teams to help build new features or update existing ones.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience with JavaScript
• At least 1 year of experience with HTML5, CSS3
• Familiar with build tools, Webpack, preprocessors, and asset pipeline
• Proficient with collaborative tools like Git
• Experience working with a remote team in a collaborative manner.

Bonus Skills:

• Scrum or Agile experience
• Familiarity with UX and page optimizations.

Does this sound like you?

• You’re self-driven, with a knack for digging deep into problems.
• You're a JavaScript expert and happy to write vanilla JS as we grow into libraries/frameworks.
• You’re resourceful: you figure out what needs to be done, and you find ways to make it happen.
• You'll help to find convergence in what customers need so that we can build the highest value product.
• You work with a sense of urgency and draw satisfaction from going above and beyond to provide solutions.
• You believe in teamwork and you are curious about learning.

Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV's as well as a link to a repository of some of your past projects to: join@devwaregroup.com