Title : Senior UI / UX Developer
Location : Cape Town (Mowbray)
THE COMPANY:
At redPanda Software we have a decade of experience in developing customised software for the retail and financial industries. Working with clients in South Africa, Africa and the UK, we have built our reputation for producing the highest quality solutions across the following specialised business processes: Customer Experience, Point of Sale, Data Warehousing, Credit Management, Insurance and Payment Systems. Our core values are: Harmony, Pride, and Accountability in everything we do.
PURPOSE OF THE JOB
The purpose of this Senior Front-end Developer is to ultimately create a user-friendly experience architecture, using HTML, CSS, and other design tools to achieve interactive and visual design principles on websites and web applications for a seamless, positive, and consistent user experience. The successful incumbent will take the lead in analyzing and implementing user feedback, as well as supporting teams that are responsible for developing the user interface.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Conduct research and deconstruct users’ digital interactions and habits.
- Identify UI and UX strategies based on our target goals.
- Create and maintain digital assets, such as interface design files, wireframes, and interactive mockups using Figma and/or Invision
- Design, build, and maintain highly reusable JavaScript, HTML and CSS code.
- Provide Technical Advice
- Responsible for the UI/UX architecture, design and development
- Combine design, user-centered research and development practices to create intuitive solutions
- Collaborate with client to understand project vision, visualize ideas and unlock business value
- Integration of software with existing systems
- Assist with training and mentoring team members
- Identify opportunities for system enhancements
CORE SKILLS/COMPETENCIES:
- Analytical thinker with critical thinking skills
- Delivery focused.
- Team Management/ Leadership
- Team Player – must be able to work collaboratively with clients and Development Management
- Executives, BAs, DPMs, Service Delivery Managers and Development Managers
- Keen attention to detail
- Stays focused under pressure
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
- HTML and CSS experience
- Figma / Invision experience
- Photoshop experience
- Graphic design skills
- Web and Mobile app experience
- Frontend development experience
Education and General Working Experience
- 5 years+ of mobile app user interface and user experience design, wireframing
- 3 years + of Figma and or Invision prototyping experience.
- Solid understanding of visual communication (Layout, Colour, Typography, Icons, design theory)
- Graphic design experience (Photoshop etc.)
- Retail software experience (brick and mortar + eCommerce)
- Good HTML and CSS knowledge (Less, Sass etc.)
- Frontend development experience highly beneficial
- Portfolio examples beneficial
- Version control systems such as Git, Azure Devops beneficial
RECRUITMENT PROCESS
- Competency based interview to assess above requirements
- Applicable assessment
- Background checks
