Front End Developer

Job description

About Orchid

Orchid Studio is a distributed team supporting scaleups and early stage businesses between London and Cape Town with Digital Marketing, Design and Development.

Our focus is to support early stage entrepreneurs validate concepts and discover their product market fit. We do this by providing sweat equity ventures, managing pre-seed introductions to Angel investors and providing core growth services.

Job description

We are looking for a Front-End Web Developer who is motivated to combine the art of design with the art of programming. Responsibilities will include translation of the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of the application. You will work with the UI/UX designer and bridge the gap between graphical design and technical implementation, taking an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks as well as how it works.

Qualifications

• JavaScript ES6
• A minimum 3 yrs. of professional experience as a JavaScript Developer, 5 yrs. experience preferred
• Experience with a front end framework like Svelte, React, Vue, Angular

• TDD (with Jest, Jasmine, etc.)
• Experience with creating cross browser applications
• Source Control with Git and GitLab with various flows
• HTML5, CSS3
• Fluent spoken and written English

Optional Skills & Qualifications

• Using APIs with a REST-ful architecture or GraphQL
• Agile/SCRUM development process

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: R22,000.00 - R75,000.00 per month