Junior Front End Developer - Web Performance

About Pwani Web:

Hobbyists in Tanzania make up most of our customers, and many have been buying since the beginning. We started in 2013 and have grown to about 12 people. Core hours are 10 to 3, and the rest of the day is flexible.

What this job is:

Our Mwanza team is growing and we are hiring a Junior Front End Developer - Web Performance. Hands-on frontend role. You'll ship features, fix layout bugs on odd screen sizes and help maintain our shared component library. This position is on site in Mwanza.

In your first few months you will:

• Migrate legacy jQuery or AngularJS pages to the current stack
• Track down cross-browser bugs in Safari, Chrome, Firefox and mobile browsers
• Pair with backend engineers on API contracts before work starts
• Integrate with REST and GraphQL APIs and handle loading, error and empty states properly

You have:

• 0-2 years building production web applications
• Git and a pull request based workflow
• Solid HTML and CSS, including Flexbox, Grid and responsive layouts
• Comfortable using browser dev tools to debug network, layout and performance issues

Bonus points:

• Visual regression testing with Chromatic or Percy
• Next.js or Remix with server-side rendering

Pay and benefits:

Rate: TZS 1,100,000 - TZS 1,350,000 per month

• Medical cover
• Pension contribution
• Annual leave
• 13th month salary

Due to the number of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Pwani Web.