Saturday 6 October 2018

Lynk Job Vacancy : Frontend Engineer, Senior Frontend Engineer

At Lynk, we believe that the relationship between households and informal workers is broken. We envision a world in which everyone can enjoy job security, fair wages, a safe work environment, and the opportunity for career growth. Additionally, for a household, hiring someone for a job should be safe, convenient, and fair. Our platform is designed to address each of these issues, offering a network of professionals that grows and improves over time.

Frontend Engineer

  • Job TypeFull Time
  • QualificationBA/BSc/HND
  • Location Nairobi
  • Job Field Engineering / Technical   ICT / Computer

Job Description

As a Frontend Engineer you enjoy making beautiful user interfaces. You have strong opinions based on experience about which frameworks to work with and you know which mistakes to avoid. Good UX design is something you live by and you have the right mind to decide when to use additional tools and frameworks and when to work with vanilla JS.

You’ll be responsible for:

  • Building scalable and highly usable frontend applications using VueJS, vanilla javascript as well as other modern libraries and frameworks
  • Help define the most beautiful user interactions in Kenya
  • Solve (many) real problems using tech
  • Teach junior engineers
  • Support in taking correct technology decisions

Successful candidates will have all or most of these qualifications:

  • Show us why they are suited for this position, rather than just tell us
  • Fluent English
  • Deeply experienced in Javascript on server and client
  • Good understanding of ES6
  • Some experience with TypeScript
  • Experience with unit testing and continuous integration
  • Hardcore CSS users
  • Grid, flexbox, animations
  • Deep knowledge of web technologies (REST/HTTP, web sockets, …)
  • Good understanding of popular programming paradigms (e.g. object orientation, functional programming, …)
  • Able to fit into a fun and outgoing work environment
  • Significant work experience and/or relevant educational background

Senior Frontend Engineer

  • Job TypeFull Time
  • QualificationBA/BSc/HND
  • Location Nairobi
  • Job Field Engineering / Technical   ICT / Computer

Job Description

We’re on a mission to elevate the careers and livelihoods of millions of blue collar professionals, artisans, and other informal workers through the use of technology. Join us.

You:

As a Senior Frontend Engineer you enjoy making beautiful user interfaces. You have strong opinions based on experience on which frameworks to work on and you know which mistakes to avoid. Good UX design is something you live by and you have the right mind to decide when to use additional tools and frameworks and when to work with vanilla JS.

You’ll be responsible for:

  • Building scalable and highly usable frontend applications using VueJS, Vanilla JS as well as other modern libraries and frameworks
  • Implement High fidelity mocks and bring them to life
  • Designing interfaces which help to solve to the many real world problems we face
  • Helping more junior engineers to get up to speed
  • Support in taking correct technology decisions

Successful candidates will have all or most of these qualifications:

  • Show us why they are suited for this position, rather than just tell us
  • Fluent English
  • Deeply experienced in Javascript on server and client
    • Good understanding of ES6
    • Current knowledge if the Javascript ecosystem
  • Some experience with TypeScript
  • Experience with unit testing and continuous integration
  • Deep knowledge of web technologies (REST/HTTP, web sockets, …)
  • Good understanding of popular programming paradigms (e.g. object orientation, functional programming, …)
  • Able to fit into a fun and outgoing work environment
  • Significant work experience and/or relevant educational background

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