OfferZen exists to unlock human potential and support the people who can use tech to make the world a better place. We accomplish this through our talent marketplace which facilitates successful matching between talent (candidates) and opportunities (companies).
The marketplace product squad is responsible for improving the experience and success rate for all participants in our marketplace, as well as enabling our operational teams to provide an excellent service. Working with your team, you will contribute to this mission by delivering impactful and quality software at a high cadence. As a frontend engineer, you will work on new and existing features across our React stack and collaborate with Backend engineers, with an emphasis on maintainable code and and providing an awesome user and developer experience.
Outcomes
- Design, test, and ship great frontend code every week to build impactful new features for users.
- Help design and architect frontend features with the delivery team.
- Work closely with designers to refine concepts into shippable features
- Share knowledge with your peers and upskill engineers through code reviews, pair-programming and the internal frontend forums.
- Work with a wide range of systems, stakeholders, processes and technologies to own and solve problems from design to delivery.
- Uphold and improve our engineering standards and processes.
- Debug production issues across services, and help ensure a stable application for the marketplace.
- Document feature designs and architectural decisions to support new engineers.
- Contribute to the technical and product roadmap.
Competencies
- Experienced in implementing UI designs.
- Experience working with Javascript and React (or equivalent framework) in a production environment.
- Experience managing and fetching data on the frontend, either in the form of state management or caching solutions.
- Knowledge about UX and applying this in practice.
- Excellent at solving problems that combine product design, process and technical aspects
- Good architectural design ability – understand patterns, algorithm complexity, separation of concerns and component-oriented design.
- Experience mentoring other developers and sharing learnings.
- Experience with frontend testing and writing code that is testable.
- Creating documentation for feature designs or architectural choices so that new engineers can quickly start contributing effectively
- Some experience working with any back-end framework in a production environment would be beneficial.
Background and personality
- 3+ years experience in software development.
- Team player that's used to working in small teams.
- Moves fast while making thoughtful tradeoffs to uphold high-quality standards.
- Driven by finding simple, elegant solutions to hard problems.
- Good communication skills.
- Comfortable working remotely.
- Driven by learning and continuously striving towards self-improvement.
- High confidence, low ego.
- Capable of backing opinions and decisions with data.
- Takes pride in their work.
- Able to balance attention to detail with an understanding of the broader context.
What it's like to work here
We love to do fun stuff together. We are focused on building a connected tribe and a sense of belonging. We value unique and diverse approaches and ensure we create opportunities to share and learn from each other. We have regular online events, show and tells and a book club as well as regional and annual off-site events.
We're dedicated to authenticity: We treat people as people, caring personally and speaking openly. We foster low-ego behaviour - we own our mistakes as well as our victories. We're never about blame. We're always about honesty, learning and continuous improvement. We ensure lots of transparency and visibility. From OKRs and strategy to analytics and company performance numbers, it's all available for you to see and understand.
We're passionate about learning and levelling up: Everyone at OfferZen strives for a growth mindset. We read books, listen to podcasts, share expertise obsessively, then take on hard challenges with smart guidance and support. When things go wrong, we look for the learning and how to improve.
We’re all about balance: We believe that maintaining a healthy balance between home and work is the key to feeling happier and more productive. We work fully remote and also offer 24 days of leave a year which are available to use from the time you start.
*This role can be based locally or remotely - we welcome all applicants based in South Africa.
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What We Do
OfferZen is a job marketplace that helps companies hire South African developers: Every week, over 2000 companies in South Africa and beyond reach out directly to over 1000 job-seeking developers. No smoke screens here—everyone gets upfront information on skills, roles, and, yes, even salary.
