Senior Developer
Abacus · Kenya
Job description
About the role
The Senior Developer will lead both front‑end and back‑end development, turning business concepts into fully functional platforms. You will work within an Agile team, collaborating with project managers, solution architects, and creative designers to deliver high‑quality software.
Key responsibilities
- Develop and maintain full‑stack applications using React, TypeScript and Node.js.
- Collaborate with project management and solution architects to estimate and scope work.
- Partner with the creative team during planning, discovery and production phases.
- Write clean, performant code and optimise existing code for speed and scalability.
- Produce documentation and comment code to industry standards.
- Design, implement and maintain APIs and integrate with REST, GraphQL and WebSocket services.
- Mentor junior team members and guide best‑practice adoption.
- Monitor KPIs, report progress to management and customers, and suggest continuous improvements.
Required profile
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience.
- Minimum 6 years of application development experience.
- At least 4 years of hands‑on experience with React and TypeScript.
- Strong understanding of OOP concepts and modern JavaScript (ES6+).
Required skills
- React, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, ES6+
- Redux or MobX for state management
- REST APIs, GraphQL, WebSocket
- Node.js, Express or similar server‑side frameworks
- Azure cloud services, SQL relational databases
- SOAP, JSON, XML, MSAL authentication
- Material‑UI, Semantic UI, Bootstrap, Styled Components
- Karma, Mocha, Jest for unit testing
- Grunt, Gulp build tools
- Backbone.js or similar MVC frameworks
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