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Senior Frontend Engineer at Indicina Technologies

Indicina’s Engineering team is charged with executing the products that help drive our vision. Today, we are scaling the number of businesses who rely on our products while growing the number of features, integrations, and client use cases.

Only 11% of Africa’s population have their credit information recorded by private credit bureaus vs 17% in Emerging Asia and 79% in Latin America. This, along with other challenges, puts a major brake on consumer lending in Africa.

Indicina is building the technology infrastructure that will power the next generation of consumer credit platforms and businesses. We genuinely believe that risk innovation can unlock the massive African consumer credit opportunity.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to join our fast-paced team building the latest innovative and disruptive technology solution. The Senior Frontend Engineer would be responsible for managing the front-end elements of the application. In addition to that, they would help mentor and guide junior engineers in their day-to-day activities to ensure they grow as engineers.
The role requires hands-on technical experience and a can-do approach towards designing and building scalable frontend technologies. We want people who can solve challenging problems, make a real impact and build something big.
If you have the right skills and are passionate about technology, we invite you to join us. As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you will work independently to build next-generation applications that are efficient & reusable.

Key Responsibilities / Duties

Lead the architecture and coding of our product’s front-end interface and user experience
Utilise cutting-edge processes and technologies to build scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant web-based and mobile friendly UIs
Develop web interfaces for multiple devices including desktop, mobile and tablet
Adopt a consumer-focused approach in building solutions whilst working with both frontend and backend teams in determining the prioritisation and estimation of new features and improvements
Design and document a component library and style guides in collaboration with design and product teams
Mentor and coach junior engineers to support their professional development
Work with internal and external stakeholders to motivate, persuade, and negotiate towards a positive outcome
Build aesthetically-sound and efficient UIs to consume backend APIs
Prioritise quality by emphasizing attention to detail, code reviews, and proactive identification and resolution of bottlenecks and bugs
Apply user testing, experimentation, automated testing and continuous integration to gain meaningful feedback for what we do
Promote best practices in coding standards

Qualifications and Additional Desired Skills

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or other similar fields from a premier institute
Familiarity with at least one versioning tools: Git, SVN
Being able to work autonomously and aptitude to learn new technologies independently
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in DevOps, Data Science, and Product teams

Requirements

5+ years of hands-on experience with using a broad range of frontend technologies to develop and maintain advanced, responsive, efficient and reliable web applications
Adept in frontend technologies specifically Javascript, Typescript, ReactJS.
Experience with Apollo, Graphql, REST, Docker.
Prior experience and/or interest in payment related systems
Knowledge of best practices in the development of User Interfaces
Experience with containerization technologies preferably Docker
AWS, Kubernetes are a plus
Ability to build robust CI/CD pipelines
Comfortable working remotely
Experience with Component Styling on ReactJs and Design System.
Managing relationships between developers and product/project managers
Experience with highly scalable distributed systems
Experience with automated testing - be it unit, functional or acceptance testing, A/B testing.