Senior Front End Developer

POSTED 2021-11-23

Job Description: Senior Front End Developer

Salary: Competitive

Location: Mauritius/Remote

About Unipro

Unipro was founded in 1997 and has continued to build on a solid reputation of designing, implementing, and managing inspired technology solutions for enterprise organisations.

We are specialists in web development, focused on accelerating digital performance through design, development, and optimisation of mission critical digital enterprise applications.  We understand that some days can be tough, and we know we would be nothing without our team, so we put our employees at the forefront of our business.

We are looking for an experienced Front End Web Developer who excels in writing TypeScript, ES6, CSS and building responsive web designs.

The ideal candidate will have commercial experience in creating modular Web Components using a JavaScript framework.

The candidate will have excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical colleagues and be experienced in working in a multi-disciplined team environment.

Responsibilities 

  • Collaborate with the creative, client and other development teams to deliver great digital projects, on time and to specification
  • Daily communication of technical matters among internal team as well as client contacts
  • Analyse requirements, wireframes and capabilities of related systems to propose appropriate solutions
  • Participate in Scrum team activities and ceremonies
  • Build, maintain and support component libraries with a Web Component framework
  • Use component libraries to create fully responsive, functioning, live websites
  • Integrate code with content management systems
  • Connect to third-party platforms using various APIs
  • Implement cross-browser web development best practices
  • Write beautiful and well-documented code
  • Apply web accessibility standards
  • Understand analytics software and embed tracking codes
  • Support and mentor other members of the team
  • Drive to collaborate with others and maintain a growth mindset

Required Skills and Experience

  • Minimum 6 years commercial JavaScript ES5/6 development experience, with at least 2 years working in a senior developer role within a team
  • Degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent
  • A deep understanding and routinely high standards with:
    • A Web Component framework, ideally Stencil.js / Ionic, otherwise, Svelte, Vue, Lit, or REACT experience would be acceptable
    • W3C Web Standards
    • JavaScript ES5/6
    • TypeScript
    • HTML5, CSS3 and responsive web design
  • A good working understanding of:
    • REST
    • Unix / Linux
    • Unit Testing
    • Accessibility Standards
    • Pair Programming / Collaborative Development
    • Object Oriented Design and Development
    • Design Systems
    • NPM
    • Git & GitHub

Desirable Skills and Experience

  • JAMStack
  • AWS
  • GrapesJS
  • TDD
  • Agency / Client Environment
  • CSS custom properties / variables
  • Jira
  • Storybook

Your Senior Front End Developer Benefits

In return for your continued dedicated commitment, Unipro are offering the following package:

  • Corporate Medical Insurance Plan
  • Transport Allowance package.
  • Continuous Training & Development 
  • Remote Working

About You:

This is an exciting opportunity to join an established friendly close knit team providing web applications and associated infrastructure support to large corporate clients worldwide.

We are looking for a highly motivated web developer who is seeking a fresh challenge and who wants to be part of our growth and success.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are a must as you will be attending client meetings and be working in a team environment.

We would expect you to have a real passion and knowledge of web and mobile technologies.

You will have an eye for superb user experiences and an entrepreneurial attitude to excite your colleagues and our clients with your ideas.

To not miss out on this fantastic opportunity to join Unipro as our next Senior Front End Developer, please send your CV to  unipromru@unipro.io and a member of our recruitment team will be in touch to discuss the next steps and answer any questions that you may have. We look forward to meeting you.

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