Frontend Engineer at Flutterwave

Flutterwave was founded on the principle that every African must be able to participate and thrive in the global economy. To achieve this objective, we have built a trusted payment infrastructure that allows consumers and businesses (African and International) make and receive payments in a convenient border-less manner.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Frontend Engineer

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Department: Engineering - PEI

Job Summary

• As backend Engineer, you will manage and seamlessly blend front-end and back-end web development.
• You will be responsible for implementing visual and interactive elements that users engage with through their when using our products.
• Translation of the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of the application.

Key Responsibilities

• Attend developer events Develop new user-facing features
• Create innovative solutions to web design issues to help make the application more visually appealing and enhance usability.
• Ensure quick Updates on our products application to make them effective.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
• Ensures Troubleshooting and fixing issues on a product’s Frontend.
• Produce application architecture design translated from high-level product/user requirements.
• Design, develop and deliver code that can support new product feature/enhancements in an agile environment.
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability.
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end.
• Develop plan, process and timeline for development projects.
• Analyze, design and develop tests and test-automation suites.
• Provide ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements in existing systems and
  platforms.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with users, project managers, product managers and
  other engineers to achieve elegant solutions.
• Provide recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Work alongside other engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently
  apply best practices.
• Contribute towards team, department and company goals.
• Competence and Skill Requirements:Proven work experience in software engineering Experience in consuming and designing RESTful APIs.
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the organization’s product and service
  offerings.
• In-depth understanding of software development languages like html, css, sass, javascript.
• In-depth understanding of software development frameworks like Vue.js.
• Implement front-end components with Vue.js framework.
• Test, update and optimize the application for performance and security.
• Write reusable, effective, and scalable JavaScript code.
• Knowledge of writing unit tests or automated JavaScript testing.
• Build modular and reusable components and libraries.
• Capable of delivering on multiple competing priorities with little supervision.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies
• Attitude to work
• Ability to grasp project requirements quickly.

Key Performance Indicator

• Timeliness of product build.
• Clarity of documentation.
• Quality of written codes.
• Customer Satisfaction with product.
• Short Cycle time (Time spent working on an issue).
• High velocity rate (Number of features delivered in a period).
• Fast backlog burn rate QA Kickback rate.
• No of escaped bugs.
• Defect removal efficiency.
• Response time to customers enquiries and complaints across all channel.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.