Job Description
Ready to change the way content is generated and shared in Kenya? Join one of the fastest growing sites in Kenya. With over 3.8 million monthly readers, your work is certain to be seen! Hivisasa is looking for a frontend engineer to help co-create a product our readers and writers will enjoy and that we will love developing!
Start: Immediately
Compensation: Competitive Duration: Open ended, full time
Current Stack: Express Node.js, Java 8, Elasticsearch, SQL, Spring framework (Spring-boot, Spring data, Spring security, Spring XD), Redis, Angular
Requirements:
6+ years experience in software development
2+ years experience with Express
Fluent in English with excellent written and verbal communication skills
You are:
Obsessed with bringing hot designs to life with a wicked attention to detail and elegant responsive solutions
An express ninja obsessed with crisp user experiences and maintainable code
Ready to tackle challenges end to end and learn new skills
Excited to develop, coach, and lead future team members
Passionate about establishing good dev practices and improving the code base
Detail oriented and capable of taking crude designs and building them into complete features
Interested in the participation of the selection, design, implementation, and evaluation of features
You enter conversations with strong opinions, weakly held
You will:
You’ll be the lead developer for our existing reader facing site. With over 3.5 million monthly readers your work will have immediate impact. You will A/B test impactful features that will improve key engagement metrics and delight our readers. Whether it is suggesting the perfect next article to read, having a tailored layout for dumb phones on Opera Mini, or inferring a reader’s interests based on their location, you will be pivotal in discovering what moves the needle. You will own our Node.js code base and will be responsible for elegantly structuring and evolving the project.
Nice to have experience:
Heroku, ElasticSearch, Continuous Integration, Angular, Linux, Redis, Opera Mini, Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Kibana, Facebook Ads, Facebook APIs
Ad networks (Google Ads, Monetize More, Taboola)
News media or blog sites and related challenges such as time sensitive SEO
Experience working on sites with millions of pageviews per day, load testing, scaling
What is Hivisasa:
Hivisasa is a place for African audiences to create, discover and share content. We are driven by our mission to elevate local and national debates by informing readers, providing a rewarding discussion platform, and decentralising the flow of information. Media is very controlled in this part of the world and the internet offers a chance for people with different voices to come together and get heard.
