Software Engineer – Frontend at Youverify

Youverify is a leading provider of digital identity management and supports innovative Private security companies, Government agencies, FinTech companies, and top tier banks that manage KYC, AML in a safe and regulatory compliant manner.

Youverify’s mission is to be the most reliable source of identity, address and background data verification. Since been peer-selected by cohort members of Village Capital PayPal Fintech 2018, Youverify has continued to shift the verification landscape with our product offerings. As a company that provides modern and compliant identity and address verification services for government, global enterprises and start-ups, Youverify know first-hand how difficult it may be for businesses to verify the identity of their customers, staff and partners and we want to help to make this process as simple and easy as possible. This is a unique opportunity to work in a fast-growing and product-driven environment using new technologies and frameworks as we continue building our identity verification solution.

Youverify is looking for a Software Engineers to join the Technology team to build the next-generation applications to solving complex problems and work with a world-class engineering and product team to deliver innovative products for our users.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Software Engineer – Frontend

Location: Yaba, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities
What a typical week may look like at Youverify:

Design and implement new features and enhancements using Vue.js
Fix bugs assigned during the sprint planning process
Design, innovate and solve complex problems inherent in operating a high scale classifieds platform
Play a key role in reviewing and approving the work of your peers as part of the software development process
Interact with product owners, partners and business stakeholders to understand and develop requirements
Debugging and Improvement of existing systems
Building modular and reusable components and libraries

Requirements

3+ years experience working with Vue.js
Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related field
Comfortable working within agile methodologies and experienced in task estimation and time management
Intermediate understanding of unit and integration testing, and testing frameworks/libraries — Mocha, Jest etc
Highly proficient with the JavaScript language and its modern ES6+ syntax and features
Strong preference for test-driven-development (TDD) and understands its importance
Highly proficient with Vue.js framework and its core principles such as components, reactivity, and the virtual DOM
Comfort and familiarity with code editor and formatting tools
Good understanding of HTML5 and CSS3, including Sass
Proficiency with modern development tools, like Babel, Webpack, and Git
Strong ability to problem-solve, debug, and understand pertinent performance metrics
Familiarity with containerization infrastructure (Docker
Experience with both consuming and designing RESTful APIs
Understanding of server-side rendering and its benefits and use cases
Knowledge of functional programming and object-oriented programming paradigms
Ability to write efficient, secure, well-documented, and clean JavaScript code
Experience with Frameworks such as Tailwind CSS framework, Element UI etc.