Front-End Engineer at Duplo

Duplo is building the platform to power the next generation of financial services. Our mission is to help companies expand financial access for all. Our simple and powerful banking-as-a-service API helps companies quickly launch financial products.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Front-End Engineer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full time

Job Description

• Use markup languages like HTML, CSS and React Js to create user-friendly web pages.
• Develop features to enhance the user experience, striking a balance between functional and aesthetic design.
• Optimize web pages and applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Ensure high-quality graphic standards and brand consistency are maintained throughout the design.
• Collaborate with back-end developers and web designers to improve usability.
• Ensure web designs are optimized for smartphones.
• Build reusable code and create quality mockups and prototypes.
• Implement relevant design changes from feedback to enhance overall user satisfaction.
• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies.
• Work with QA engineer to perform end to end testing

Qualifications
Required:

• 3 + more years of frontend  development experience.
• 2 + more years of experience with react JS.
• Good knowledge of current Javascript standards (ES6+).
• Experience with Gatsby.
• Proven proficiency using automated Javascript testing frameworks.
• Proficient with CSS3 and related tools/methodologies such as Less and/or Sass, CSS modules, CSS-in-JS etc.
• Intermediate understanding of JavaScript core language concepts -- DOM manipulation, Fetch API.
• Experience with responsive and adaptive design.
• Understanding of layout aesthetics.
• Knowledge of SEO principles.
• Working knowledge of unit and integration testing and testing frameworks/libraries - Jest, Jasmine, Mocha.
• Working knowledge of at least one task runner - gulp, npm scripts.
• Working knowledge of at least one version control tool - Git, Mercurial.

Desired:

• Experience with styled-components or emotion JS
• Experience with Gatsby.
• Proven work experience in UI / UX Designing.
• Familiar with several different automation frameworks (Cypress/Selenium/Ghost Inspector, Postman/Newman).
• Great interpersonal and communication skills.
• Past experience in the financial technology  industry considered highly valuable, but not required.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.