Lead Front End Engineer
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Job Location:
Johannesburg - South Africa
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
6 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
We are seeking a high-caliber hands-on Lead Front-End Engineer to join our Delivery Team. This isnt a sit back and delegate role; we need a technical powerhouse who thrives on writing complex logic defining sophisticated architecture and setting the gold standard for what excellent looks like in a codebase.
The Mission:
- Design and implement complex UI components using and modern frameworks. You arent just building features; youre building the systems that power them.
- Make the big technical decisions. Youll define how we structure code to ensure it remains maintainable decoupled and scalable two years from now.
- Develop modular reusable libraries and internal tools that empower the wider team to move faster without breaking things.
- Evaluate and integrate the best-in-class front-end tooling to sharpen our development lifecycle.
- Obsess over application performance. Youll optimize for maximum speed accessibility (WCAG) and seamless cross-browser compatibility.
- Bridge the gap between static design and living product with pixel-perfect precision and fluid high-performance animations.
- Lead the charge on robust testing strategies (Unit Integration E2E) and ensure they are deeply integrated into our automated pipelines.
- Collaborate on UI-specific CI/CD pipelines to ensure our build processes are as efficient as the code itself.
What You Bring to the Table
- A deep intuitive understanding of React lifecycles hooks and advanced state management patterns.
- Expert-level proficiency in ES6 and TypeScript. You should be a strong advocate for type safety.
- Experience with modern approaches like Tailwind Styled Components or CSS-in-JS.
- Hands-on experience with Jest React Testing Library and Cypress.
- The ability to take a nebulous product requirement and transform it into a robust scalable technical design.
Why Join the Delivery Team
- You will be a key player in the squad responsible for our most critical user-facing interfaces ensuring our delivery engine is world-class.
- We value psychological safety and technical merit. Youll have the freedom to make significant architectural decisions in a supportive collaborative environment.
- Forget just patching legacy bugs. You will be instrumenting real change building new features and shaping how our users interact with our core services.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Bootstrap
- CSS
- Front-End Development
- HTML5
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- Angular
- Less
- JavaScript
- backbone.js
- Sass
About Company
CloudSmiths is a tech consultancy with a special focus on data analytics, machine learning, cloud infrastructure and business reporting. We are the largest Salesforce integrator in Africa and specialised Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and AWS partners.
