JavaScript Engineer

About the role

Sabenza IT & Recruitment is looking for a JavaScript Engineer in Johannesburg on a full-time hybrid basis. The role suits someone who enjoys building modern web applications, solving technical challenges and working with the latest technologies, and who is comfortable with JavaScript and has experience with frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue or Svelte.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, enhance and maintain modern web applications.
• Write clean, scalable and efficient code.
• Integrate front-end applications with RESTful services and back-end systems.
• Identify, debug and resolve application issues.
• Take part in the full development lifecycle, from design through to deployment.
• Collaborate with other developers, share knowledge and contribute ideas.
• Keep up with the latest technologies and development practices.

Required profile

• At least 4 years of professional JavaScript development experience.
• Solid experience with one or more modern frameworks: React, Angular, Vue or Svelte.
• Experience integrating with RESTful web services.
• Ability to read and identify issues within back-end code, and a good understanding of the application development and deployment lifecycle.

Required skills

• Strong HTML5 and CSS3 skills.
• Exposure to back-end technologies such as Node.js, Java.NET, Go or Java EE.
• Experience with NPM or Yarn.
• Familiarity with testing frameworks such as Jasmine and Jest, and with mocking tools such as WireMock.
• Experience with Git, Jira and browser debugging tools.
• Understanding of web servers such as Nginx or Apache.
• Bonus points: full-stack experience, Docker and Kubernetes, AWS, DevOps, Cypress/Protractor/Selenium, Webpack, SCSS or SASS, and monorepo tooling such as Nx or Lerna.