Senior Front-end Engineer at Howwz Limited

Howwz Limited is a privately owned PropTech company building a world class platform for short-let accommodation booking and management. We seek to disrupt the market by introducing a culture of technology-driven processes for short-let property rental and general property sales and investment.

As part of our growth we seek to hire and develop well-rounded, technologically astute, ambitious people that can bring fresh and innovative thinking to the organisation and drive us forward in the vacant position below:   Job Title: Senior Front-end Engineer Location: Lagos

About the Platform

• In order to achieve this goal, we are looking for bright and intellectual people who will join us in building elegant, cutting-edge and high-value solutions for our growing company.
• Our software is the core of our business and the spearhead of our strategic goals. The company’s proprietary technology platform will power the company’s key value proposition to redefine short-let accommodation booking and management tailored for Nigeria and other African countries.

About the Role

• You will take the lead on the development lifecycle of the platform and growth of the front-end development team.
• role is for a Senior Front-end Engineer based in Lagos. This is a fantastic career defining role as you will be working directly with the organisation’s founders and senior management in defining the product roadmap and strategic direction of the platform.

Key Objectives:

• Maintain high standards in all areas of individual output.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders. Able to articulate understandable responses to non-technical members of the business.
• Responsible for the delivery of projects within the team.
• Assist and provide advice to less experienced members of staff in day to day tasks.

Requirements Essential skills / experience:

• Understanding of browser and device testing and debugging.
• Firm understanding and experience of version control and how to manage project repositories.
• An engineer’s attention to detail and a passion for writing clean, readable, properly tested code.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, the ability to work unsupervised and sense of due diligence.
• 5+ years of commercial experience.
• Experience and good understanding of Javascript, CSS3 and HTML5.
• Experience with Linux, Git, Docker.
• Experience of building large, complex SPAs in a scalable and maintainable way.

Desirable skills/ experience:

• Pair programming experience, willing to work collaboratively to both give and receive feedback within a shared code ownership team.
• Understanding of web performance and optimisation.
• Good understanding of SEO best practice and principles.
• Knowledge of SCRUM practices and Agile methodologies.
• Experience working with React or any other major js framework with a willingness to learn React.

Other Skills/ Experience:

• OO JavaScript (ES6/7) and TypeScript.
• Understanding BDD and DDD.
• Experience with JIRA and time tracking.
• Experience with various AWS services.
• Knowledge of Serverless architecture.
• Knowledge of GraphQL.

Benefits What's in it for you:

• You’ll be working for a company building a friendly and exciting working culture.
• You’ll be joining an organisation looking to grow and invest in its people to drive a vision to build a market leading platform
• A chance to be involved at the beginning of a greenfield platform with great potential for disrupting the market.
• Competitive Salary
• Flexible working hours
• 25 days flexible holiday p/a + bank holidays.

 

How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should send their Resume to: [email protected] clearly indicating the "Senior Front-End Engineer" as the subject of your mail. Note: Only candidates who meet the requirements will be contacted.