Sr Front-end Developer

Sr Front-end Developer

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2-3 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know diverse backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

Sr Frontend Developer

Senior: 5+ years’ experience

About the Company

Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company and global leader in networking products and services, acquired local startup Cape Networks in 2018. As Cape Networks we had a big vision: to improve the way the Internet works for everyone. We built a small team of skilled engineers and designers in Cape Town and a product that won us Best Startup of the year from Wi-Fi NOW.

Today, our product is the fastest growing in the Aruba portfolio and our Cape Town-based team is recognized as being at the leading edge of design thinking and execution.

What do we do?

Our product gives IT managers insight into how their users are experiencing Wi-Fi, network, and application performance, and helps them fix problems before users complain. Other performance tools are complex and intimidating, built by network engineers for network engineers; ours is beautiful and simple, and our customers love it. Our sensor hardware is a delight to install and our software is easy and fun to use. Our product is used in offices, universities, banks, hotels, airports, stadiums, retail stores, and more - every business with Wi-Fi is a potential customer that we can help.

We design all our own hardware and software in Cape Town. Our software systems are built entirely in-house using Python, React, Clickhouse, AWS Kinesis and other technologies. We are truly a full-stack company, with a great set of technical challenges to work on.

About You

Are you a problem solver, quick study, and hooked on web development? We're looking for passionate developers who care about design, performance, and creating outstanding user experiences, and who are eager to work in a fast-paced, flexible, and collaborative environment. We’re looking for someone who would like to continue their growth on the Individual Contributor path, becoming a highly skilled development contributor on the team.

Knowledge and Skills

• Extensive experience with multiple software applications design tools and languages.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in overall architecture of software applications for products and solutions.
• Designing and integrating software applications running on multiple platform types into overall architecture.
• Mastery of JavaScript and Typescript
• Mastery of HTML/JSX and CSS/SCSS/CSS-in-JS
• Good knowledge of current and legacy web frameworks and libraries (React, Redux, etc.)
• Good knowledge of web bundling technologies (Webpack, Vite, etc.)
• Good knowledge of Design Systems
• Good knowledge of state management in complex applications
• Understanding & experience with data flow in frontend & backend systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery in English and local language.
• Ability to effectively communicate product architectures, design proposals and negotiate options at senior management levels.

Qualities

• Desire to achieve perfection, but ready to compromise when necessary to ship on time
• Thrives on fresh challenges and continual learning
• Creative thinker and self-starter

What you will be doing

• You'll be working with a skilled team of bright, motivated developers building an outstanding web app to be proud of.
• Using modern web technologies to develop state-of-the-art features on the dashboard that will help IT teams at companies of all sizes monitor and troubleshoot their wireless networks and applications.
• Leading projects & responsible for all stages of design and development for complex products and platforms, including solution design, analysis, coding, testing, and integration.
• Reviews and evaluates designs and project activities for compliance with applications design and development guidelines and standards; provides tangible feedback to improve product quality and mitigate failure risk.
• Drives innovation and integration of new technologies into projects and activities in the software applications design organization.
• Provides guidance and mentoring to less-experienced staff members.

What we are offering

• Excitement and growth of a startup with the resources and security of a Fortune 100 company
• Full-time position
• Competitive salary
• Great benefits
• 6-month paternity/maternity leave (if you’ve been around for more than a year)
• Exposure to latest & greatest technologies
• Opportunity to help shape the product
• Growth and global scope

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