Web Engineer

Do you have experience within the frontend space, developing and enhancing websites and mobile applications? If you thrive most when you are creating user-friendly solutions, with a greater impact in mind, then this could be the role for you!

The Company

Tiko (previously known as Triggerise) believes in a world where all youth have the power to choose where, when, and how they meet their sexual reproductive health needs. Our digital platform delivers scalable and verifiable sexual reproductive health services for young people in 5 main markets in Sub Saharan Africa - Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, South Africa and Burkina Faso. We work together with local communities and use nudges like reminders, discounts, and reward points to encourage our users to access and use sexual and reproductive health services. We also support our users in becoming micro-entrepreneurs and adding value to their economies.

Tiko has offices in South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, the Netherlands and Portugal. Globally, our team consists of 160 enthusiastic, international colleagues. Whether you are working from our biggest office in Nairobi, the fast-growing office in South Africa, or from home, our people are young and our culture is global and dynamic. Our work environment is fast-paced, informal, and friendly. You can learn more about what being part of Tiko is like here.

For this position we will happily accept applicants from South Africa, Kenya, and Portugal.

The Job

As a Web Engineer, you’ll play a crucial role in shaping the structure and design of our web pages and mobile applications, ensuring a perfect balance between functionality and aesthetics. You'll take the lead in further developing our corporate website, adding new features like dashboards and other dynamic materials that drive engagement and enhance the user experience. This is your chance to bring creativity and technical expertise together to make a lasting impact!

• Implementing visual elements that users see and interact within a web and mobile application.
• Maintain, improve existing features ensuring they can be fully utilized by the end-user.
• Work with multi-disciplinary teams, such as back end developers to ensure maximum optimization of the platform.
• Responsible for dashboarding, and making sure that looks great.

About you

You have an eye for development and design, and can apply your creative knowledge to our core websites and application, to create user-friendly solutions. You have a thorough understanding of new and emerging technologies, and how they can be applied to our platform to maximize the user’s journey.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Frontend/Web Engineer. You have portfolios of your work that can demonstrate projects you have carried out.

• At least 4 years of professional experience working with frontend tools, including JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

• Professional experience with at least one modern JS framework (React or Angular) is mandatory.

• Understanding of the entire web development process (design, development, and deployment).

• Passionate about creating great design and usability.

• You have excellent English and communication skills.

• You care currently based in South Africa/Kenya/Portugal.

Recruitment Process

Introductory call with recruiter | First Interview with Tech Team | Technical Challenge | Final interview with the Tech Team

The Rewards

At Tiko we believe in being open, also when it comes to salaries. The monthly gross salary bracket for this position is R40,450 - R50,000 in South Africa, Ksh216,050 - Ksh270,00 in Kenya, and €2,087 - €3,131 in Portugal. We will offer you a salary in this bracket depending on your level of experience and how it relates to your future colleagues.

In addition to your monthly salary, we offer you:

• Great secondary benefits
• A personal development budget.
• Unlimited holidays, if you can make it work with your team you’re good to go.
• Growth opportunities.
• A product to help shape as we grow, to leave your mark on how we do things.
• A vision that we trust that you will do your job without us having to invent unnecessary rules and regulations.

The Details

Interested? Apply now below! Want more information? Check out our website or contact our Global Recruiter. We only accept applications through the apply links, not by email.

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Tiko prioritizes integrity in our workplace and respects your privacy.

Tiko is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour by its employees at work, including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct. This is why we will do reference and background screening checks on successful candidates before hiring. Tiko also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme_. As part of this scheme, we will request information from your previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during your employment, or incidents under investigation when you left employment. By applying for this position, you confirm you have read and understood these recruitment procedures.
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We value your privacy and understand the importance of safeguarding your personal data. We invite you to review our privacy notice for the recruitment process to understand how we collect, use, and protect your personal data during the recruitment process. Click here to view the document. By applying for this position, you acknowledge that you have read and understood our privacy notice.

Keywords

FrontendWeb EngineerJavaScriptHTMLCSSReactAngularDesignUsability