Current Stack: Express Node.js, Java 8, Elasticsearch, SQL, Spring framework (Spring-boot, Spring data, Spring security, Spring XD), Redis, Angular
Requirements for the Senior Frontend Engineer Job
- 6+ years experience in software development
- 2+ years experience with Express
- Fluent in English with excellent written and verbal communication skills
- You are:
- An express ninja obsessed with crisp user experiences and maintainable code
- Ready to tackle challenges end to end and learn new skills
- Excited to develop, coach, and lead future team members
- Passionate about establishing good dev practices and improving the code base
- Detail oriented and capable of taking crude designs and building them into complete features
- Interested in the participation of the selection, design, implementation, and evaluation of features
- You enter conversations with strong opinions, weakly held
Senior Frontend Engineer Job Responsibilities
- You’ll be the lead developer for our existing reader facing site. With over 3.5 million monthly readers your work will have immediate impact.
- You will A/B test impactful features that will improve key engagement metrics and delight our readers.
- Whether it is suggesting the perfect next article to read, having a tailored layout for dumb phones on Opera Mini, or inferring a reader’s interests based on their location, you will be pivotal in discovering what moves the needle.
- You will own our Node.js code base and will be responsible for elegantly structuring and evolving the project.
Experience:
- Heroku, ElasticSearch, Continuous Integration, Angular, Linux, Redis, Opera Mini, Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Kibana, Facebook Ads, Facebook APIs
- Ad networks (Google Ads, Monetize More, Taboola)
- News media or blog sites and related challenges such as time sensitive SEO
- Experience working on sites with millions of pageviews per day, load testing, scaling
We are:
Tech at Hivisasa is a very small team. We expect you to take an active role in architecting solutions and evolving the tech team culture / best practices. We already have a product with > 3 million uniques per month, 100,000’s of page views per day. This is a great testbed on which to iterate new features. You will have the opportunity to make a direct impact across the organization and our user base immediately!
What is Hivisasa:
Hivisasa is a place for African audiences to create, discover and share content. We are driven by our mission to elevate local and national debates by informing readers, providing a rewarding discussion platform, and decentralising the flow of information. Media is very controlled in this part of the world and the internet offers a chance for people with different voices to come together and get heard.
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