Front-End Software Engineer

What we would like you to do:   

Have you ever thought of joining a company where your contribution to its product will help redefine its position within its industry. We are one of the fastest growing companies in our sector, using innovative technology and solving the hardest problems to bring African sports fans unrivalled digital sports and gaming entertainment experiences, online, offline, 24/7.  

 As a Frontend Software Engineer, you will be joining a team focused on ensuring that our gaming products are highly resilient, extremely low latency and scalable to massive volume, all while providing a first-class customer experience. With a great understanding of the modern architectural and engineering practices that underpin highly successful distributed transactional solutions, your team will work hand-in-glove with the Product Managers to design, build, deliver, and run our gaming platforms and products.  

Part of our rapidly growing Tech team, you will have the opportunity to play a crucial role in taking the KingMakers products to the next level. 

What you need for this role:   

• Develop and maintain user interface components: Utilize your expertise in JavaScript frameworks, such as React and TypeScript, to create and manage UI components that align with project requirements. 
• Proven experience integrating web applications: Demonstrate your proficiency in integrating web applications seamlessly using RESTful APIs, showcasing your ability to build robust connections between front-end and back-end systems.
• Proven experience building high-performance and responsive web applications: Highlight your track record of creating high-performance web applications with an optimal user experience across various devices and screen sizes.
• Proven experience using CSS: Showcase your skills in using CSS to style web pages, emphasizing your ability to create visually appealing and user-friendly interfaces. 

 It would be great if you had experience with:  

• Proven experience using a CMS: Working with dynamic content provided by a CMS, like Strapi or Umbraco. 
• Experience in hosting web applications: Experience in hosting web applications using platforms, such as Cloudflare or Vercel, demonstrating a holistic understanding of the deployment process. 
• Familiarity with package managers: Experience with package managers like PNPM and Yarn to facilitating efficient package management within the development workflow. 
• Experience with Application Performance Monitoring (APM): Showcase the value of experience with APM tools like Kibana and Elastic to monitor and optimize application performance. 
• Experience with JavaScript Unit testing: Experience in implementing and maintaining effective unit tests using tools like Jest to ensure code reliability. 
• Knowledge of architectural concepts: Knowledge of architectural concepts, laying the foundation for future growth and skill development (SSG, SSR, Islands, and Streaming SSR). 

 How you do it – Expectations for fulfilling your role:  

As a general rule at KingMakers we want people to be: 

• Customer Focus: We keep the customer at the center of everything we do.  
• Passion & Dedication: We are passionate about what we do, employing only smart, honest, dedicated, and results oriented team players.  
• Openness, Honesty & Directness: We embrace a culture of candor and work together towards the right solution whilst being open, honest, and willing to give and receive feedback, judgment-free. We play the ball, not the person.  
• Innovation & Big Thinking: We always look for ways to innovate whilst not losing sight of what's important. The bigger we think, the more we inspire, the better the outcome.   
• Ownership & Accountability: We think like owners. If we see a problem, we find a solution. We are pragmatic and always strive to do more with less. 
• Speed & Focus: We plan, we strategize, but mostly, we DO. Without doing, there is no progress, we can always change direction but only if we start moving. Fast beats slow.  
• Low Ego: The best solutions are achieved when we leave our egos at the door. We always seek opportunities to learn in every situation. No job too small.  
• Fun: On balance, we believe in having fun whilst working. We maintain perspective as best as we can, and together, we celebrate our successes.