Our client in JHB (West Rand) is currently looking to employ an experienced Angular 2+ Developer.

Must be front-end developer with at least 2 years of experience writing Angular applications and at least 5 years solid experience in JavaScript/TypeScript.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Contributing to our primary web front-end project, as well as various once-offs and prototypes.
• Consistently review other team members’ code, and have your code reviewed as well.
• Work closely with our product owner, designers, data/business analysts, and back-end developers to ensure the platform is achieving its goals.
• Working in an agile environment. That means participating in sprints, sprint rituals, and having good ticket hygiene!
• Knowing your own knowledge gaps and working to close them. We’re all autodidacts and self-starters here, and we’re always learning and improving.
• Being a team player! A willingness to help out where needed, mentor those more junior than you, and step up to whatever challenge we face as a team.

Requirements and Qualifications

• JavaScript (goes without saying)
  • Experience with OOP concepts is beneficial.
  • Experience working with tools like ESLint, TSLint and Prettier is beneficial, but not a requirement.
  • Familiarity with PWA architecture and the Service Worker API is very beneficial, but is not a requirement.
• Angular
  • You must have a grasp of the various conventions, design patterns, and best practices used within the Angular community.
  • We strive to keep our application up to date with the latest version of Angular and expect every team member to at least be familiar with the latest breaking changes.
• NGRX
  • We use NGRX as a state management system, but experience with any popular state management library is beneficial.
• Jest
  • Experience doing TDD is beneficial, but not a requirement.
• HTML5
  • A good knowledge of HTML semantics is expected.
  • Knowledge of a11y and WAI-ARIA best practices is beneficial, but not a requirement.
• CSS 3
  • Knowledge of browser idiosyncrasies and the ability to create styling that works in all modern browsers, both mobile and desktop.
• UI/UX
  • Knowledge of design principles, methodologies and best practices is beneficial.
  • Knowledge of or an interest in applying good UX practices to your work is beneficial, but not something we expect to be a core skill set.
• Git
  • Experience using Git is beneficial.
  • Must be able to demonstrate good commit hygiene!

Knowledge and Experience

• Experience creating data visualisations with D3.js or similar
• Publishing packages to NPM
• Using NX mono-repos for managing projects
• Building component libraries using Storybook
• Using SASS, LESS or any other CSS preprocessor
• Experience with SVG or Canvas animation
• Experience with writing integration tests using Cypress or an equivalent tool
• Experience with setting up visual regression testing tools such as Percy
• Knowledge of, or experience with using Progressive Enhancement as a methodology for building web front-ends.