iKhokha is a place where chance-takers become change-makers. At iKhokha, we believe in better. As you'd expect, our pace is fast-moving and ever-changing. We like it that way. As one of the fastest-growing FinTech's in Africa, we've built a team of global change-makers who want to make an impact. If you believe in a better future, be a chance-taker and help us empower small businesses in South Africa.
Job DescriptionAt iKhokha, we’re on the hunt for a Frontend Software Engineer who’s passionate about building slick, high-impact user experiences that help our merchants thrive.
If you love solving real-world problems with modern tech and want to make a difference in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, we want to meet you!
So, what will you do?
- Be a part of building new technologies, maintaining existing technologies as well as testing various systems within the FinTech space.
- Work in an Agile environment within a collaborative cross-functional Team, reporting into the Software Development Manager.
- Develop crispy new user-facing features that drive our users to take action, using React.js, HTML5 and CSS.
- Be responsible for the front-end development of FinTech systems, including initial planning and development.
- Work effectively with Back-End Engineers to ensure seamless integration that performs as a single, cohesive system.
In addition to the above, you will:
- Ensuring that code developed is of the highest standards through the adherence to Engineering Principles, Pull Request Standards and Definitions of Done.
- Ensuring that development has sufficient Code coverage through the creation of Unit test.
- Ensuring that code adheres to “Clean as you code standard“.
- Creating, reading, maintaining, interpreting, updating and reviewing documentation.
- Helping other engineers to grow through effective mentorship.
- Ensuring that the team and stakeholders are communicated too effective and efficiently through Pull Requests, Jira Tickets, Slack and Confluence.
- Imparting valuable knowledge to the engineering team at large through knowledge sharing sessions.
The following would be advantageous:
- A degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
Deal Breakers:
2-4 minimum years’ of experience in the following:
- Working with React.js, Next.js HTML5 and CSS.
- Working within an Agile environment using Scrum or Kanban methods.
- Version Control experience whereby you have worked in Engineering Team (with developers of various levels) with a version control system such as GitHub.
- Development Environments experience whereby you have worked in Engineering Teams (with developers of various levels) within multiple environments for Development, Testing and Production; including Branching Strategies.
- Experience with Technical Leadership whereby you have led a Software Engineering Team (with developers of various levels) and been involved in Technical Leadership, Code Quality, Code Standards, Code Security, System and Code Performance.
- Experience with creating, maintaining and reviewing documentation.
In addition to the above, the experience in the following technologies, domains and best practices will make you a frontrunner for the role:
- TypeScript, JavaScript and Node.js
- Experience with leading and participating in Code Reviews for your own team as well as those in other teams.
- Experience with creating, maintaining and reviewing documentation.
- Rest API Integration or GraphQL API Integration
- CMS API Integration (Sanity, Magento, or similar)
- VSCode / IntelliJ
Perks of joining the Tribe?
- Work in a high-growth company with tangible results you're accountable for.
- Enjoy hybrid, remote, and in office work models.
- Competitive remuneration and benefits, including Medical Aid and Group Risk scheme contributions.
- Be guided by visionary leadership.
- Seize the opportunity for study leave.
- Access to on-demand learning and development.
- Experience a friendly, collaborative culture with a team of all-round-lekker humans (it’s true, we surveyed our Employees and they told us so).
- If you find yourself at HQ, coffee on tap and a selection of hot beverages provided by our very own onsite Barista.
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What We Do
iKhokha is a co-founder led financial technology company that believes every South African entrepreneur should be given the opportunity to compete in the digital economy – because when small businesses grow, Mzansi thrives.All our digital payment solutions are built in-house at our HQ in Umhlanga where we manage the entire product life cycle from research to design, development, user testing, rollout, and product evolution.From Tap & Go enabled card machines to point-of-sale systems, top-tier ecommerce products (such as iK Pay Gateway) and, of course, the iKhokha app, we pride ourselves on building highly competitive products at affordable prices to give businesses the payment tools they need to succeed, both in-person and online.Whether through our speed point machines or our ecommerce payment solutions, our merchants enjoy the lowest transaction rates in South Africa. And to reward them for trading with us, these rates keep getting lower the more they sell!Our merchants can also access working capital after just three months of trade using our iK Cash Advance product and can increase their basket size by selling prepaid products with iK Prepaid on the iKhokha app.At our core, we’re here to help entrepreneurs and businesses of all sizes start, run, and grow. We use tech to create meaningful experiences that uplift our communities, add value, and make running a business less of a dream and more of a reality.
