Senior Front-end Developer at Moove Africa

Moove is on a mission to make Africa and other emerging markets more productive and successful by redefining access to auto finance and vehicle ownership. Our starting point is a technology-enabled lending model to radically transform the availability of auto finance and vehicles for on-demand ridesharing services in cities across the world. By doing so, Moove is creating sustainable jobs for mobility entrepreneurs in the mobility sector.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Front-End Engineer

Location: Lagos

About the Role

We are seeking a resourceful and hands-on Senior Front-end Developer to join the rapidly growing development team.
The ideal candidate should have a serious passion for user-centered design and development; believes in constantly evolving and improving through iteration, testing, user research, and experimentation; and has the agility to go from the whiteboard design of an application all the way to superior code implementation

Primary Responsibilities

Develop new applications and maintain current applications to support
Take charge and be a decision driver for assigned web platforms
Ability to explain issues, decisions and solutions to the team succinctly
Produce prototypes and effectively articulate design decisions
Keep up-to-date on emerging technology solutions, particularly those on JavaScript, for continuous improvements in front-end application development and end-user experience.

KPIs that will be measured after you start

Code quality
Availability, maintainability and scalability of applications built
Defects / bugs found in production code
Response time to issue resolution
Testing quality and coverage

Job Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related programming degree
Minimum of 5 years relevant experience as a frontend developer
Extensive web development experience (with associated portfolio) in lieu of a degree
Knowledge of data visualization and charting libraries (e.g. D3, Recharts, DC, C3, Plotly, etc.)
Extensive experience in javascript programming and modern javascript frameworks like React, Vue, Backbone or Angular
Expertise in building complex layouts with CSS and HTML
Ability to create mockups and prototypes quickly
Ability to interact with and integrate RESTful API platforms/endpoints
Experience working with cloud-based infrastructure (e.g AWS)
Propensity for proper documentation and source control.