Frontend Developer at Absa

Job Summary

Absa CIB Digital Technology is looking for skilled developers to assist with building out the Absa Access Foreign Exchange product. This is a desktop application written in ElectronJs/React calling into a RESTful back end hosted within an internal platform called Absa Access. It’s the Absa FX flagship application in the FX Product suite which currently serves our Corporate Customers. We’re looking for strong and excited software engineers to join this exciting and dynamic team on a contract basis. The team and portfolio execute using Agile approaches and want developers of the same mindset to bring their solid experience and skill-set to this amazing space within Absa!
This product will move into AWS in the near future and utilize the likes of web sockets

Job Description

What you’ll do

• Develop User interfaces for Modern Rich Internet Applications with the latest Front end Technologies

• Perform product analysis and development tasks of increasingly complex nature which may require extensive research and analysis.

• Writing tested and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS

• Make design and technical decisions for Front end projects.

• Develop application code and unit test in the React/Angular, Rest Web Services with ideally some C# backend experience

• Ensure high performance

Key critical requirements:

• 3 – 5+ years development experience

• Minimum 2 years front-end experience (experience must be in the last 2 years)

• Experience in React (Angular beneficial)  

• Beneficial Front end skills: Electron, Redux, ELK, Elastic, Fluent d, Kibana, State Management in a front end framework

• Beneficial technical skills: Cloud, Rancher, Docker/Containerization, DevOps (i.e. pipeline deployment, repository management), Azure

• Ways of Working - experience actively working in an agile manner i.e. Kanban, Scrum etc

• Back end experience nice to have

• Tertiary education in Computer Science / Engineering or related field

• Strong expertise with HTML, CSS, and writing cross-browser compatible code

• Good understanding of AJAX and JavaScript Dom manipulation Techniques

• Experience with RESTful services

• Experience in JavaScript build tools like grunt or gulp

• Expert in any one of the modern JavaScript MV-VM/MVC frameworks (JQuery, NodeJS, GruntJS)

• Familiar with testing frameworks (Ex. Jasmine)

• Test runner framework (Ex. Karma)

• Hand on and implements complex Front end / React applications, directives, controllers, services

• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills

• Team player

• Good time-management skills

• Great interpersonal and communication skills

• Ability and drive to work in a fast paced, high pressure environment 
   

*Initial 6 month contract

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised