Job description

South Africa’s largest, most innovative e-commerce retailer, with over 1,200 employees is looking for a highly talented Senior Front-end engineer to join their team. 

They are looking for enthusiastic, passionate and technically strong JavaScript developers to be part of a team responsible for the development of their customer facing mobile and desktop websites.

Your primary focus will be to implement front-end JavaScript coding at a senior level with a focus on performance, maintainability and testable code. Duties include creating modules and components and coupling them together into a functional site.

Apply now and join a team that fuels innovation and fosters continuous improvement and success….

Requirements

• A minimum of 5+ years of experience as a Front End Developer writing code
• Very proficient in coding plain JavaScript from scratch 
• Understands inheritance in JavaScript and advanced JavaScript techniques
• Appreciation and understanding of object oriented programming concepts
• Solid experience writing performant frontend code based on MVC JavaScript Frameworks (React is preferred, but AngularJS, Meteor, Backbone, etc. are a good start)
• Experience in XHTML, Html5, CSS and taking high definition designs/PSD’s and producing fast efficient HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Knowledge and experience cross browser and cross device compatible solutions including for mobile
• Should have experience with CSS precompilers such as Less or Sass
• PHP experience very desirable
• Linux experience
• React JS experience

Bring your love of all things front-end and that desire to make the best experience for the customer to this amazing business that offers great working environment!

Reference Number for this position is GZ40868-2018 which is a permanent position based in Rosebank offering a cost to company salary negotiable on experience and ability.

The time for change is now! e-Merge IT recruitment are specialist niche recruiters with a wide range of positions available. We offer researched positions with top companies to strong technical candidates.

Email Garth on

az.oc.egrem-e@htrag

or call him on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

Check out our website www.e-merge.co.za for more positions that might be right for you!

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If you haven’t heard from e-Merge IT within two weeks of your application, please consider it unsuccessful for this position.

Posted on 15 May 15:40