Senior Frontend Engineer (VueJS / React)

Description

• We are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer with strong expertise in Vue.js and React to design, build, and deliver high-quality web applications that power critical healthcare experiences.
• You will work closely with Product Managers, Product Designers, Backend Engineers, QA Engineers, and other stakeholders to build scalable, accessible, performant, and intuitive products used by healthcare professionals and organizations across Africa.
• The ideal candidate is not only an experienced frontend engineer but also someone who understands modern software engineering practices and is comfortable leveraging AI-powered development tools to improve productivity, code quality, testing, and problem-solving.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-quality frontend applications using Vue.js and React.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, Backend Engineers, QA Engineers, and other stakeholders to translate product requirements and designs into intuitive user experiences.
• Build reusable, maintainable, and well-tested UI components and frontend architecture.
• Contribute to frontend technical architecture, design decisions, coding standards, and engineering best practices.
• Integrate frontend applications with RESTful APIs and other backend services.
• Manage complex application state using appropriate state-management patterns and tools.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-documented code with appropriate unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Identify and resolve performance, usability, scalability, and reliability issues across frontend applications.
• Work closely with backend engineers to define and consume effective APIs and improve end-to-end application performance.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback that improves code quality and engineering practices.
• Contribute to technical planning, estimation, sprint planning, and delivery of engineering initiatives.
• Help establish and improve frontend development standards, tooling, testing strategies, and CI/CD processes.
• Effectively leverage AI tools and coding assistants to improve development efficiency, debugging, testing, documentation, and code quality while maintaining appropriate engineering judgment and security standards.
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to communicate technical decisions, manage expectations, and drive projects toward successful outcome

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience with 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Vue.js, with additional experience with React.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript along with understanding of HTML5, CSS3, responsive design, and modern web standards.
• Experience building reusable UI components and working with component-based frontend architectures.
• Experience with modern styling approaches such as CSS Modules, Sass/SCSS, PostCSS, Tailwind CSS, Styled Components, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience with vibe coding techniques and ability to own and coordinate vibecoding sessions with evidence to support this.
• Strong understanding of frontend state management and experience with tools/patterns and experience integrating applications with REST APIs, authentication mechanisms, and backend services.
• Solid understanding of frontend performance optimization, including rendering performance, bundle optimization, lazy loading, caching, and code splitting.
• Ability to use AI tools responsibly for code generation, refactoring, debugging, test generation, documentation, and technical research.
• Experience writing and maintaining unit, integration, and end-to-end tests using tools.
• Experience with modern frontend build and development tooling such as Vite, Webpack, npm/pnpm/yarn, and related tooling.
• Strong experience with Git and collaborative software development workflows.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, automated software delivery, cloud-based applications and modern development environments.
• Good understanding of web accessibility (WCAG) and cross-browser compatibility.
• Exposure to integrating AI-powered features or APIs into frontend applications is an advantage.

Benefits
This role offers a competitive salary in a collaborative work environment with a dynamic and diverse team. We also offer tremendous potential with a growing global organization. 

• Package includes guaranteed take home 

• 20 days holidays + public holidays 
• Enhanced Parental + Family Leave – 60 days paid Maternity Leave and 20 days paid Paternity Leave. Our Adoption Leave policy follows the similar arrangements. 
• Health Insurance or Medical Allowance 
• Robust Learning and Development Opportunities 
• Team-building activities and social events 
• Amazing team culture! 

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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