• Application Deadline:
• Position: Senior Frontend Engineer


• Job Type Full Time , Remote


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 5 years


• Location Lagos


• Job Field ICT / Computer 
  

Responsibilities:

• Develop features and improvements to our products in a secure, well-tested, and performant way


• Work with Product Management and other stakeholders (Backend, UX, etc.) to iterate on new features.


• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.


• Consistently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.


• Help improve the overall experience of our product by improving the quality of the Frontend features.


• Help identify areas of improvement in the code base, both specific to your group and outside your group (e.g., component library), and help contribute to make it better


• Learn, collaborate, and teach other Frontend Engineers. Everyone can contribute something new to the team regardless of how long they’ve been in the industry.


• Contribute to and follow our workflow process, alongside the rest of the Frontend Engineers.


• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have impact across your team.


• Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.


• Exert influence on the overall vision and long-range goals of your team. This could be technical and/or product-focused.


• Experience with performance and optimization problems, particularly at a large scale, and a demonstrated ability to diagnose and prevent these problems


• Help define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.


• Provide mentorship for Junior and Intermediate Engineers in your section to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers.


• Consistently ship moderately sized features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.


• Improves the engineering projects at GitLab via maintainer trainee program at own comfortable pace, while striving to become a project maintainer. 


• Help develop and own release versioning control and related documentation


• Design and implement testing and quality validation strategies.

Technical & Professional Requirements:

• 5+ years Professional experience with React and another modern JavaScript web framework (VueJs, Angular, etc.)


• Experience with writing automated tests (e.g., Jest, Karma, Jasmine, Mocha, AVA, tape)


• Experience using Git in a professional/workplace environment


• A solid understanding in core web and browser concepts (e.g., how the browser parses and constructs a web page)


• A solid understanding of semantic HTML, CSS, and core JavaScript concepts.


• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment


• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions


• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems


• Comfort working in a highly agile, software development process


• Positive and solution-oriented mindset


• Effective communication skills: [Regularly achieve consensus with peers] [collaboration], and clear status updates


• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility


• [Self-motivated and self-managing] [efficiency], with great organizational skills.


• Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization


• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization