Senior Frontend Engineer (React Js)

About Kashat

Kashat helps the unbanked Egyptian population cultivate a financial identity by providing them with instant loans and an opportunity to access wider financial services by way of building a credit history. We aspire to reconfigure how financial services for the unbanked are distributed by aiming to provide more equitable and accessible solutions. If you are looking for an ambitious and dynamic environment with new challenges every week, this is the place for you.

Kashat is the first nano lending app in Egypt and MENA, we are Egypt’s first regulated nano lending venture. This is your opportunity to work with an ambitious mobile first fintech which has the ambition to become the most progressive and comprehensive fintech mobile app for the unbanked. Join us in our mission to solve some of the region’s most challenging issues revolving around access to finance for the unbanked.

About the Job (Responsibilities)

• Collect, document, and analyze requirements from a variety of sources.
• Convert high-level designs, wireframes, and mockups into working Javascript applications.
• Design robust, high-performance, low-maintenance, and documented solutions.
• Produce high-quality implementations of applications, including writing Javascript code, HTML, and CSS.
• Lead and participate in performance and functionality testing of applications.
• Develop new web applications that communicate with backend web services.
• Develop reusable components and libraries to use across applications.
• Maintain existing applications.
• Suggest and demonstrate efficient designs & technologies for applications developed by the group.
• Mentor other less experienced developers.

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science.
• 3+ years of experience in similar technology development environments to ours.
• Extensive experience architecting and building React JS web applications
• Solid understanding of software life cycle.
• Proficient in fundamentals of object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, and complexity analysis.
• Strong understanding of web browser technologies (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, …).
• Maintain, support, troubleshoot, monitor, and optimize existing and future web applications.
• Knowledge of Git version control.
• Experience with REST web service framework and JSON.
• Experience with push notifications.
• Integration with mobile analytics.
• Experience in UI/UX Design.
• Experience with A/B testing, hypothesis building and best practices.
• Ability to turn ideas into fast, reliable and maintainable code.
• Positive, proactive team player who is passionate about their craft.
• Customer-centric prioritization and data-driven decision making.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.