Senior Frontend Engineer (React)
Own front-end quality across our web apps, from the pages organisations run on to the sites the public uses every day.
- Team
- Engineering
- Place
- Accra (Adentan)
- Work
- Hybrid
- Type
- Full time
How you'll work. Mostly one day a week from home, agreed for each role.
- You'll be employed by Nkonso Technologies Ltd.
About the role
Organisations run Agoo from the web, visitors check in on pages that work on any phone, and the public reads and writes on Agoo Reviews and fills in Agoo Forms. You'll own the shared web components and the front-end standards across all of them, so every page is fast on a mid-range phone, accessible to everyone, and as considered as our native apps.
What you'll do
- Build and look after our shared web components and their design tokens
- Build features in React with modern server-rendered web frameworks
- Set and protect performance budgets for mid-range Android phones on mobile networks
- Make every page meet WCAG 2.2 AA, and check it with assistive technology
- Build pages that update live when other people change the data
- Check layouts at every width from 320 to 1440 pixels, in light and dark
- Review front-end work across the team so it stays consistent
- Work with our designers on motion and detail on the web
What you'll bring
- At least five years building production web front ends with React and TypeScript
- Experience with modern server-rendered web frameworks, including their caching and data loading
- A strong grasp of web performance on slow networks and low-end devices
- Practical accessibility skills, to WCAG 2.2 AA
- Experience building and maintaining a component library shared by several products
- CSS you're proud of, including responsive layout and theming
- If you're a Ghanaian graduate: National Service completed, or exempt
Nice to have
- Search engine optimisation and structured data
- Real-time interfaces
- Interfaces in more than one language
- Motion on the web
How you'll work
- Hybrid. You'll be based at our office at 10A Mega Street, Adentan, Accra, mostly with one day a week from home, agreed for the role.
- Hours. Standard office hours.
- This is a permanent, full-time role.
- Reporting. You'll report to the Head of Engineering.
How to apply
Apply on this page with your details and a link to your CV or portfolio. A short note on why the role interests you is welcome.
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