Frontend Engineer
Stears
The Company
Stears is a Pan African data company. For global funds investing in Africa, Stears is the data and insights provider that enables quick, accurate decisions during the investment process. Stears users get access to industry, company, transaction, and macro data as well as constantly updated reports by researchers. Unlike other providers, Stears goes beyond just data to provide insights and context based on knowledge of local markets and delivers it all in an easy-to-use data platform. You can find more info about Stears here.
We are looking for an engineer who loves to learn and be challenged and enjoys working in a high-performing team where he/she is supported, given responsibility, and held to high standards. We’ve seen first-hand the impact of diversity of background amongst engineers, gender diversity in particular. Hence we are strongly encouraging qualified women to apply for this role!
The Role
Why it’s important: Companies and Investors all over the world are seeking to understand the African landscape in relation to their world and investment opportunities – this is where Stears comes in. To meet our growth and expansion goals, we’ve built and deployed solutions at scale with multiple approaches across various tools and cloud providers. Our user experience in particular is rapidly evolving to meet our customers needs and it requires strong frontend engineers to evolve it day by day. You take ownership of our frontend, turning wireframes into working software. You pay close attention to the detail and ensure the customer experience is like no other. You bring the best practices in frontend development, and combined with a focus on practical problem-solving for today and long-term thinking for tomorrow, you shape our customer’s experience of interaction with the platform.
Who you will work with: As Frontend Engineer, you will also be a member of the Platform team (product, design & engineering) and report to the Engineering Manager. In addition to working with the core team of product managers, engineers, and designers, you will work with many internal stakeholders, including the CEO, CTO, COO, Customer Success, Marketing, and Analytics.
Responsibilities
As a Frontend Engineer at Stears, your responsibilities are to:
Build
- Craft reusable frontend components to be applied across the platform
- Translate wireframes into working code with extremely high attention to detail, empathy for our customers, and a mindset of continuous improvement and shared responsibility across design and frontend
- Collaborate with design and product on user research and translate learnings into software development
- Deliver on new product roadmap features that will be incrementally added to the platform
Collaborate
- Collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering (in particular other Frontend engineers and Backend engineers) on a coordinated product roadmap
- Keep abreast of the frontend ecosystem and act as a link for the team to the best practices as they develop
- Collaborate with the wider team to solve urgent issues and bugs that come up
- Attend daily scrum meetings to plan and align on work to be done
- Work with the rest of the product development team, including reviewing work, refining stories, planning sprints, and delivering sprint commitments
We are looking for someone with:
- At least 3 - 4 years experience in frontend software development, using
- HTML, CSS and Javascript
- Reactjs, Typescript, Storybook & NextJS
- Experience with REST API and GraphQL
- Experience with In-house and 3rd party API integrations
- Knowledge or interest in atomic design principles
- Some no-code website builder background (webflow, etc.)
- Some CMS background on webflow, etc..)
- Ownership of CICD practices
- Experience with Gitlab/Github
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes & Helm
- Knowledge of Cloud Platforms (GCP Preferably) and FE deployment patterns
- Experience building reusable and scalable frontend components
- Experience writing clean and maintainable code
- Experience building real-time web applications
- Experience building on CMS platforms for non-engineering teams
Perks
Meaningful perks matter to us. They make employees better and contribute to making Stears a great place to work. If you join us, you can be assured that you’ll enjoy a wide range of generous perks, rewards and office benefits including:
- Flexible working: we are currently hybrid (you chose what days you are in the office)
- Help lay the platform foundations of our African expansion. We are currently fleshing out our expansion strategy and would love you to be a part of this growth while doing impactful work
- Be part of our new product offerings
- Unlimited access to Stears Intelligence Solutions
- The Stears Experience - These are the top reasons our employees report having the best experience of their careers at Stears:
- Deepen their analytical & critical thinking skills, which apply beyond a specific domain
- Gain a high level of autonomy and responsibility by taking on a senior role in our high trust startup environment and relatively flat organizational hierarchy
- Do something meaningful by being part of a team making African data more widely available
- Access to an expert Intelligence & Analytics team - Stears Intelligence team includes some of the brightest knowledge experts in Nigeria covering a wide range of sectors, all with a passion for delivering the highest quality of intelligence and analytics on the African continent.
- Competitive salaries at junior, intermediate and senior levels
- Comprehensive Health Insurance coverage
- Paid time off - 25 days, excluding public holidays and sick days (Prorated)
- Compassionate Leave
- Parental Leave
- Unlimited Sick Leave
- Special emphasis on learning and development
- Regular social activities, including annual off-site team bonding
- Stears branded merchandise and swag
Diversity
Stears is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants regardless of color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, actual or presumed belonging to an ethnic group, or any other legally protected status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.