Role: Web, JavaScript engineer
Type: Independent contract or FTC (fixed term contractor)
Start: ASAP
Location: Remote, anywhere in South Africa
Summary
We’re looking for a hands-on web engineer to build fast, reliable, and accessible front-ends. You’ll work across modern JavaScript frameworks, own component libraries, and contribute to CI/CD pipelines to ship quality features at pace. You care about clean code, design fidelity, and creating reusable building blocks that scale.
What you’ll do
- Build responsive, cross-browser web applications using modern JavaScript (mainstream framework).
- Create reusable components & design-system friendly UI with strong attention to UX and accessibility.
- Configure and optimise bundling with tools such as Webpack or Parcel for performance and DX.
- Implement state management patterns, integrating RESTful APIs and handling edge cases gracefully.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, quality gates, and automated checks for rapid, reliable releases.
- Write unit tests and keep coverage meaningful, fast, and trustworthy in CI.
- Collaborate with product, design, and engineering to refine requirements early and spot risks quickly.
- Participate across the SDLC, from analysis and technical design to delivery and support.
What you’ll bring
- Relevant qualification or online portfolio.
- 2–5 years’ web development, cross-browser delivery.
- One or more: React, Angular, Vue, Next.js.
- Bundlers: Webpack, Parcel.
- CSS/SCSS or CSS-in-JS.
- Git workflows.
- State management: Redux, MobX, Vuex.
- CI/CD setup experience.
- UI tooling literacy, design fidelity, attention to detail.
- REST fundamentals.
- Docker experience.
- Unit testing with Jest/Karma.
- Full SDLC participation and sound analysis/design.
- Cloud/CI: Azure, GCP, AWS, Jenkins.
- DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes (beyond local use).
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