Our client in JHB (West Rand) is currently looking to employ a React. JS Developer.

We’re looking for a front-end developer with at least 2 years of experience writing React applications.

Responsibilities:

• Contributing to our primary dashboarding 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 functional programming concepts is beneficial, but not a requirement.
• Experience working with tools like ESLint 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.

React:

• You must have a grasp of the various conventions, design patterns, and best practices used within the React community.

Redux (and friends):

• We use fairly vanilla Redux, but experience with any popular state management library is beneficial.

Jest:

• Experience doing TDD is beneficial, but not a requirement.

HTML 5:

• A good knowledge of HTML semantics is expected, but not a deal breaker if you’re willing to learn on the job.
• 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 is beneficial, but not a requirement.
• Knowledge of or an interest in applying good UX practices to your work is beneficial, but not a requirement.

Git:

• Experience using Git Flow as a branching strategy is beneficial, but not a requirement.
  Must be able to demonstrate good commit hygiene!

Nice To Have:

• Having knowledge or experience in any of the following is not a requirement, but would set you apart from other candidates:
• Experience creating data visualisations with D3.js or similar
• Experience contributing to an open-source project
• Publishing packages to NPM
• Using Lerna mono-repos for managing projects
• Building component libraries using Storybook
• Using StyledComponents, Emotion or any CSS-in-JS library
• 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.
• Experience with TypeScript