Full Stack - JavaScript Engineer (Senior)

Role and Responsibilities

• Be part of the team that is focused primarily on the acquisition and onboarding of new clients. 
• Expand on our existing NodeJS-driven APIs and create new ones as our product suite and third-party integrations expand.
• Help decide and plan which features we will build, and how they are architected and implemented.
• You will work closely with your team, which includes other software engineers, QA’s, product managers, our designers as well as members of the broader Sanlam Indie team.
• Testing your work, with as much automation as is useful.
• Making sure the code you’ve created can work in an AWS (containerised) environment.

Our Ideal Candidate

• You are highly proficient in JavaScript, Node, CSS, HTML and have extensive experience in front-end frameworks like React 
• You have the ability to work on your own, sometimes spearheading a new direction with minimal guidance
• You’re familiar with style guides, pattern libraries & design systems and writing modular, reusable code.
• You’re a thinker and can contribute to problem-solving design-oriented user experience issues.
• You have experience writing tests for JSON APIs
• You have experience in helping other developers improve the quality of their output and technical solutions.
• Experience integrating with third-party APIs and Web Services

What do we mean by a senior developer?

• You can handle the entire software development life cycle, end to end
• You lead others, or others look to you for guidance.
• You can self manage your projects
• The code you write is written with maintainability, simplicity and scalability in mind