Lead Front End Engineer for High-Performance Web Applications

17 hours ago


Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Black Pen Recruitment Full time

We are seeking a talented Senior Front End Engineer to join our team at Black Pen Recruitment, where you will have the opportunity to work on high-performance web applications and take ownership of key projects. This is a fantastic chance to grow your career in a fast-paced environment.

**About the Role**

This role involves developing, maintaining, and optimising user-facing interfaces for our clients' platform, ensuring a seamless and visually appealing user experience. You will work closely with product owners, UX designers, and back-end engineers to translate business requirements and user feedback into functional front-end solutions.

**Responsibilities**

  • UI Development: Build, maintain, and optimise user-facing interfaces for our client's platform, ensuring a seamless and visually appealing user experience.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with product owners, UX designers, and back-end engineers to translate business requirements and user feedback into functional front-end solutions.
  • Code Quality and Performance: Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code, focusing on performance optimisation, scalability, and cross-browser compatibility.
  • Component Libraries: Develop and maintain reusable UI components and ensure they align with our client's design system.
  • Technical Leadership: Mentor junior engineers, review code, and set best practices for front-end development within the team.
  • Testing and Debugging: Implement and maintain comprehensive unit and integration tests to ensure code reliability and robustness.
  • Stay Current: Keep up to date with the latest front-end technologies, tools, and best practices, and share insights with the team to improve development processes.

**Benefits**

  • Competitive salary: $120,000 - $180,000 per year.
  • Opportunity to work on high-performance web applications.
  • Growth opportunities in a supportive environment that values growth, learning, and innovation.
  • A collaborative environment where you can learn from talented product managers, designers, and engineers.

The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of experience in front-end development, with a strong focus on modern web technologies and frameworks. They will also be proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript, have extensive experience with modern front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js (React preferred), and a strong understanding of semantic HTML, CSS3, and preprocessors like SASS or LESS.



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