Front End-Web Engineer

Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA Engineering Full-Time

We have an open position for a Front End / Web Engineer! Do you have experience within the front end space, developing and enhancing websites and mobile applications? If you thrive most when you are a creating user-friendly solutions, with a greater impact in mind, then this could be the role for you!

The Company
We are a fast-growing non-profit social enterprise with offices in the Netherlands, Portugal, India, Kenya, and Ethiopia. Triggerise builds digital platforms that motivate users - primarily young women and adolescent girls - to make positive choices. We work together with local communities and use nudges.

All of our Triggerise offices are comfortable, open spaces filled with enthusiastic, international colleagues. Whether you are working from our biggest office in Nairobi, the fast-growing office in New Delhi, or from home, our people are young and our culture is global and dynamic. Our work environment is fast-paced, informal, and friendly.

The Job

Continuing to determine the structure and design of our web pages, and mobile applications making sure to strike a balance between functional and aesthetic design. Further develop our corporate website, including dashboards and inclusions of other materials.

Implementing visual elements that users see and interact with in a web and mobile application.
Maintain, improve existing features ensuring they can be fully utilised by the end user.
Work with multi-disciplinary teams, such as back end developers to ensure maximum optimization of the platform
Responsible for dashboarding, and making sure that our dashboard looks great!

About you

You have an eye for development and design, and are able to apply your creative knowledge to our core websites and application, in order to create user friendly solutions. You have a thorough understanding of new and emerging technologies, and how they can be applied to our platform in order to maximise the user’s journey.

Requirements

Proven experience as a Front End / Web developer. You have portfolios of your work which can demonstrate projects you have carried out.
Understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment.)
Demonstrated experience with front end tools and frameworks.
Passionate about creating great design and usability
Excellent communication skills

The rewards

In return for your hard work and dedication, we offer you:

A competitive salary and good secondary benefits
A personal development budget
Unlimited holidays, if you can make it work with your team you’re good to go
Growth opportunities
A product to help shape as we grow, to leave your mark on how we do things
A vision that we trust that you will do your job without us having to invent unnecessary rules and regulations.
Opportunities to travel (post Covid)

Triggerise

Triggerise is a tech-powered, Netherlands-based non-profit operational in 10 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and India. We motivate our users - primarily young women and adolescent girls - to make positive health choices. We use nudges like reminders, discounts, in person and digital follow-ups, and reward points to encourage our users to access and use health products and services. We also support them in becoming entrepreneurs and adding value to their economies. What are nudges? Nudges might include discounts, digital or in-person conversations, follow-ups, reminders, or rewards points that users can redeem in local stores. We also give our users the power to rate their experiences, which provides credibility and allows us to personalise offers. The result? A relevant journey for the user, created around her needs, which simultaneously strengthens local economies How? Using the Triggerise platform. We are a digital platform. Imagine Netflix. But instead of films and tv shows, we aggregate another kind of content - sexual reproductive health solutions - which we provide for people in developing countries and emerging markets. The goal? Motivating healthy behaviour. Our platform includes two kinds of infrastructure: 1) Technology: The websites, apps, SMS, and membership cards that people use to engage with our platform; and 2) Partnerships: Service providers, entrepreneurs, content creators, retailers, wholesalers, and product distributors support us in providing key offerings. The platform reaches all potential users regardless of technology access, proficiency, or even literacy.

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