Senior Front End Engineer (ReactJS/NodeJS) at Venture Garden Nigeria (VGN)

Venture Garden Nigeria (VGN) is a fast-growing B2B/B2G Fintech Platform Holdco Company with six subsidiaries, two platform entities and a suite of shared services offered to all subsidiaries. At VGN we wage war against the average, go beyond the ordinary to explore limitless opportunities; breaking the norms and aggressively pursuing success through- Relentless Hard-work, Pursuit of excellence, calculated risk-taking and a hunger for knowledge and we have a lot of fun at it!

We are recruiitng to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Front End Engineer (ReactJS/NodeJS)

Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Job type: Full-time

Job Descriptions

• We are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer who is motivated to excel in advanced client-side technologies.
• You will be responsible for designing modern interfaces using the latest JavaScript based architecture and deploying the product to our cloud infrastructure.
• You will work with the Product Managers to understand customer requirements and drive UI/UX Designers and Developers to implement features.

Principal Responsibilities

• Work with Product Managers to define product requirements
• Collaborate with UX/UI Designers to build modern interfaces
• Transform large and complex datasets to beautiful visualizations
• Implement compelling, usable UIs; contribute to their design, and engineer them with React and Redox
• Improve performance and address scalability limits
• Design scalable client-side architecture that works with a multi-tenant cloud API
• Ensure secure coding standards to protect the clients against various vulnerabilities
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Join a tightly knit team solving hard problems the right way
• Mentor junior team members and review their code

Qualifications

• Developing new user-facing features using React.js
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code
• Strong experience and knowledge with HTML, CSS, JavaScript ES6, React JS and Redux.
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Experienced with RESTful APIs
• Some familiarity with continuous integration software such as Jenkins, Travis CI, etc.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Bitbucket etc.
• Understanding of CI/CD
• Good knowledge in Hybrid App development
• Experience in building UI layout with multiple device support Unit testing-JEST
• You need to be ready to hit the ground running for critical deliverables.
• Ability to provide technical leadership to group of developers

Additional Information

• Working conditions
• Flexibility is important.
• Equal opportunity
• The role is open to anyone who meets the above criteria regardless of race or nationality
• Remuneration: Competitive based on experience

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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