Senior Frontend Developer at Westfield Consulting Limited

Westfield Consulting was founded in January 2012, by a team of Nigerians with over 45 years of cumulative work experience in management and consultancy. Westfield Consulting is a provider of Human Resource and Strategic Management Services. Our focus on innovation and excellence in service delivery has made us a first choice to our growing clientele in various sectors. We have successfully achieved a positive work force attitude, while engineering a more motivated and committed workforce for our clients with notable results Our results provide a testament about the quality of our services. 70% of our business is repeat business.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Frontend Developer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Objective / Summary

• We are looking for a great JavaScript developer who is proficient with React.js. Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux).
• You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain.
• You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is important.

Core Responsibilities Activities
Problem definition and evaluation:

• Develop software solutions by studying information needs;
• Conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage and work processes;
• Investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle.

Code Quality and Documentation:

• First and foremost, developing software our users need.
• Develop software solutions by studying information needs;
• Conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage and work processes;
• Investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle.
• Write Quality Code, Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.

System analysis and Specifications:

• Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.
• Improves operations by conducting systems analysis, recommending changes in policies and procedures
• Provides information by collecting, analysing, and summarizing development and service issues.
• Develops software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle.

Development:

• Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment
• Participating in educational opportunities; eading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
• Support and develop software engineers by providing advice, coaching and educational opportunities.
• Mentor associate’s engineers.

Team Collaboration practices and Tools:

• Comply with agile sprint plans and industry standards.
• Accomplish engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed.

Teamwork:

• Work collaboratively with others to achieve goals.
• Collaborate with team to brainstorm and create new products.

Innovation:

• Stay on the leading edge of development practices.
• Be a persistent, creative problem solver.
• Passionate about great technologies, especially open source

Business Needs:

• Understand business needs and know how to create the tools to manage them.

Educational Qualification and Experience

• Minimum of B.Sc Degree in Computer Science or Computer related courses
• Must have of 2-3 years of UI/UX delivery of enterprise solutions.

Professional Qualification:

• Azure DevOps Expert
• Azure Developer Associate
• Azure Security Expert

Knowledge and Skills:

• Excellent project management, communication, Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
• Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
• Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Cloud technology proficiencies
• Business Analysis / Critical Thinking
• Agile Principle Understanding

Behavioural Competencies:
Highlight and/or add those of utmost importance to the role:

• Business Related
• People Related
• Self - Related
• Strategic Thinking
• Establishing Focus
• Stress Management
• Analytical Thinking
• Written Communication
• Personal Credibility
• Initiative
• Verbal Communication
• Flexibility
• Entrepreneurial
• Motivating /Influencing Others
• Planning and Organizing
• Negotiation Skills
• Managing Performance
• Fostering Innovation
• Fostering teamwork.

Application Closing Date
14th September, 2022.