JavaScript Engineer – Johannesburg, SA

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Education: High School (matric) (Required)

License/Certification: AWS certification (Required)

Job description
Our client is looking for JavaScript engineers with a minimum of 4 years of solid exposure and experience in techs such as Angular, React, Vue, and Svelte.

The company

Our client is an international software firm that solves real-world problems with innovative solutions and modern technology stacks.

The role

• Understanding requirements.
• Identifying production and non-production application issues.
• Contributing to all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Writing well-designed, testable, efficient code.
• Ensuring designs follow specifications.
• Raising concerns with the design and identifying areas of improvement in the software delivery process.
• Learning from those in your team while sharing your knowledge.
• Staying on top of your game by knowing all the latest developments from a coding, methodology, and approach perspective.
• Preparing and releasing into production.
• Supporting continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and presenting these for architectural review.

Requirements

• JavaScript with a minimum of 4 years of solid exposure at a professional level.
• Back-end service integration typically – REST Web Services: Node.js, Java, .NET, Go, and Java EE.
• Experience using Jira, Git, and testing frameworks.
• Ability to read and identify issues in back-end code in languages.

Skills required:

• Web frameworks (React, Angular, Vue, Svelte)
• HTML5 and CSS3
• Integrating with REST services
• Package management tools (NPM, Yarn)
• Unit testing frameworks (Jasmine, Jest)
• Mocking frameworks (WireMock)
• Web servers (Nginx, Apache)
• Understanding of application lifecycle, from development to deployment
• Browser debugging

Beneficial/advantageous skills

• A full-stack developer is a plus in this role.
• Docker and Kubernetes experience
• AWS experience/certification
• DevOps
• Automation tools (Cypress, Protractor, Selenium)
• Webpack
• SCSS, SASS
• Monorepo tooling (Nx, Lerna)

Experience:

• stream processing platforms: 2 years (Preferred)
• JavaScript: 4 years (Required)
• Back-end service integration typically – REST Web Services: 4 years (Required)
• Jira, Git, and testing frameworks: 4 years (Required)
• Web frameworks (React, Angular, Vue, Svelte): 4 years (Required)
• HTML5 and CSS3: 4 years (Required)
• Docker and Kubernetes: 2 years (Preferred)
• DevOps: 2 years (Preferred)
• SCSS and SASS: 2 years (Preferred)
• Monorepo tooling (Nx, Lerna): 2 years (Preferred)
• Web servers (Nginx, Apache): 4 years (Required)