Job Description

Role Summary
The Mid Developer will work closely with the Senior Developer to manage both front-end and back-end development processes, implementing solutions from conception to final product according to business needs. The mid developer is required to implement and oversee the design, develop and maintenance of fully-fledged and functioning platforms
Key Responsibilities
. Work within a Software Development team, following Agile development methodologies.
. Work with Project management and solution architects to estimate and scope out projects.
. Work with Creative team during planning, discovery, and production phase.
. Work with both front-end and back-end development teams to create and optimize solu-tions.
. Optimizing code for performance.
. Comment code and produce documentation to industry standards as needed.
. Produce code to the highest standards while adhering to industry accepted architecture and design pattern techniques and methodologies (e.g., MVC, SOA, OOP, DI etc.)
. Defining and developing APIaEUR(TM)s.
. Contribute to the analysis and design of software products and tools.
. Evaluate and advise on the technical feasibility.
. Create quality prototypes for a clearer understanding of UI designs.
. Test and confirm software is fit for purpose with intended audiences.
. Recommend and implement refinements and improvements.
. Follow formal Software Engineering best-practices.
. Mentoring and guiding team members
. Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
. Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer
Experience
. At least 4+ years of experience in building Applications
. At least 3+ years of experience with React, TypeScript
. Good understanding of OOPs concepts.
. Strong hands-on knowledge on HTML5, CSS3, ES6+
. Strong understanding of the React Virtual DOM, JSX and API
. Hands on experience on REST APIs, GraphQL and WebSocket
. Experience with a State-management framework like Redux (with middleware) or MobX
. Understanding of cloud-based technologies, Azure, SQL and relational databases, SOAP and REST Web-Services, JSON, XML, MSAL.
. Comfortable with concepts like Container/Presentation components, Higher Order Compo-nents
. Worked with UI libraries like Material-UI, Semantic UI, Bootstrap or similar
. Good understanding of CSS in JS, aka scoped-css or Styled Components
. Unit testing with Karma + Mocha or Jest
. Experience on working with frontend build systems and automating the same using Grunt / Gulp
. Experience on MVC frameworks (Backbone.js, or similar) and knowledge of common JavaS-cript design patterns will be good to have
. Experience of working with server-side JavaScript frameworks based on Node.js
. Exposure to Style Guides, Atomic Design
. Exposure to Scrum and Agile methodologies.
The team will be based in Johannesburg following a hybrid working model.

Skills Required