Frontend Software Engineer

Role Overview: 

We are a customer centric tech start-up in the Sports and Digital Entertainment industry who are passionate about bringing communities together across the African continent both online and through our agency operations.

Since launching our first product in 2018 (BetKing), we have accelerated our growth to meet demand, all whilst hiring an incredible team of Creators and Innovators across Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.

There has never been a better time to join our Kingdom than today!

What You Will Be Doing:  

• Design it: ensure that everything is designed not just for now, but for the growth of years to come  
• Build it: deliver great solutions that are proven to meet the needs of the Product Managers and Product Designers as well as your colleagues in Support and Operations  
• Test it: be accountable for your own testing and for the overall quality of your output, you’ll make sure testing happens fast, frequently and effectively  
• Run it: check that everything is working as expected and go hunting for problems to solve, to constantly improve the solution 
• Document Everything: make sure we have top class and up to date technical and use case documentation 
• Mentor and coach: support and help onboard and train the less experienced members of the team 
• Collaborate: engage with other teams and users across the company to identify ways to improve and build upon the capabilities of the Platform  

What You Need for This Role:  

• Extensive experience in web development, using  HTML, CSS, JavaScript and TypeScript
• Production experience with any of the modern web frameworks, such as React (Next.JS), Angular or Vue
• Comfortable working with JS tools and ecosystem, like NodeJS, NPM or Yarn, webpack, Rollup, Grunt, ESLint
• Strong fundamental knowledge in Front End development, understanding how browsers work and performance best practices in modern web apps
• Experience with headless content management systems like Strapi or Umbraco is a plus
• Proficient in Git (we use GitHub and Azure DevOps)
• Good understanding of CI/CD principles
• Experience working with data fetching via RESTful APIs or GraphQL
• Experience writing tests (unit, integration, E2E) and documentation, using tools like Cypress or Storybook
• Experience with Docker is a plus
• Experience with backend languages (C#, Java, Python) is a plus
• Experience with cloud services like Azure, AWS or GCP is a plus
• A passion for detail and problem solving, with excellent verbal and written communication skills 
• Hyper-growth start-up experience is a strong plus

 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.