\nPosition Overview:\n\nWe are looking for a Senior Front-End Web Developer who is motivated to combine the art of design with the art of programming. Responsibilities will include translating design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of the application. You will work with the product designer and bridge the gap between graphical design and technical implementation, taking an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks and works. Aside from publicly faced applications, the person will contribute to internal back office UIs, building easy-to-use interfaces for internal teams in ever-evolving architecture.\n\nResponsibilities:\n\n\n* Develop new user-facing features\n\n* Build reusable code and libraries for future use\n\n* Ensure the technical feasibility of design from a visual and experience standpoint.\n\n* Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability\n\n* Ensure consistency of data gathered from the user\n\n* Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders\n\n* Developing internal tooling UI and platform for non-web-native team members to use\n\n\n\n\nSkills needed:\n\n\n* Great understanding of the newest trends, best practices and standards  in web development\n\n* Experience in leading the development of medium to large-scale projects, focusing on UX and Security.\n\n* Understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms\n\n* Proficient understanding of client-side scripting, security best practices, and browser performance optimizations\n\n* Great knowledge of advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks, such as AngularJS, ReactJS, Vue (at least one of them), etc.\n\n* Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, SPA, SSG\n\n* Good knowledge of tools necessary for autonomous delivers (image processing, building, etc)\n\n* Familiarity with tools such as Figma and Lokalise is a plus.\n\n* Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.\n\n* Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as GitHub.\n\n* Good knowledge of SEO principles and ensuring that applications will adhere to them.\n\n* Experience in designing web architecture, including Backend for Frontend, micro frontends, and usage of docker.\n\n* Excellent attention to detail with a high level of ownership mentality to deliver results independently and iteratively.\n\n\n\n\nOther requirements\n\n\n* A dedicated workspace.\n\n* A reliable internet connection with the fastest speed possible in your area.\n\n* Devices and other essential equipment that meet minimal technical specifications.\n\n* Alignment with Our Values and the Xapo Values-Driven Leadership principles.\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Designer, JavaScript, Finance, CSS, SEO, Senior and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nGibraltar, Gibraltar

\nAt M-KOPA, We Finance Progress.\n\n\nThe scale and impact of our work is massive. M-KOPA is a fast-growing FinTech company offering millions of underbanked customers across Africa access to life-enhancing products and services. From our roots as the pioneer in pay-as-you-go “PayGo’” solar energy for off-grid homes, we have grown into one of the most advanced connected asset financing platforms in the world, empowering a broad range of customers to achieve progress in their lives.\n\n\nThe M-KOPA design team is a team of senior designers in different African markets with a love for customer research & digital design. We work at the intersection of service design, UX/UI design & design validation to help create experiences that our users love and lead the impact we desire. We partner with with experienced developers, data analysts, researchers and other team members translating insights and data into customer-centric design solutions. Together we improve the Android customer app and Android sales app, but also our CRM and other internal tools.\n\n\n\n\nThis is a unique opportunity to become part of our growing team of designers and researchers. As part of the team you will apply your research & UX/UI design experience. You'll lead important discovery processes in the field and oversee creating top-notch user interfaces and experiences. You will spend the majority of your time with your dedicated product team, but will also be part of a design team with designers who will rely on your coaching and guidance. Would you also like to become a Senior Designer of the digital products at M-KOPA? Read below if the job suits you. You will report into the head of design, this role is fully Remote role, within the following time zone (UTC -1 / UTC+3\n\n\n\nYOU ARE EXCITED ABOUT THIS ROLE BECAUSE YOU WILL\n* You create Android app designs and are to be on top of the latest developments.\n* You deal with a huge amount of team members and align them to reach the best possible design solution.\n* You facilitating the creative process and lead teams in the ideation and solutioning process.\n* You inspire other designers and are open to learn from other team members.\n* You use data, insights, technical limitations and team goals to fuel your design solutions.\n* You have a user-centric mindset that cares about solving problems, good user journeys and customer blueprints.\n* You build empathy with users by collaborating with researchers and consuming insights going out into the field yourself.\n\n\n\nWE'RE EXCITED ABOUT BECAUSE YOU HAVE EXPERIENCE IN\n* 5+ years of applied UX design experience\n* You can make great experiences of our products for our users through a balanced mixture of interaction design, motion design/animation, and copywriting.\n* You have great prototyping skills and know when to use it and how to get the best results out of your user research.\n* You have great workshop facilitation skills, know how to lead creative sessions and how to get people involved.\n* You have a solving problems mindset and team up with others to create the desired solution.\n* You can apply a style guide to what we need in the products.\n* You question assumptions provided by assertions, data and conversations and know the appoint the most riskiest assumptions made.\n* You know how to use research, data, and customer insights to ensure that partners and product teams thoroughly understand our customers' problems.\n* You know how to collaborate with colleagues to complete more complex projects\n* You have at least 5 years of work experience doing end-to-end UX Design; from gathering input from users to great-looking pixel-perfect prototypes.\n* You understand mobile and native Android app design.\n* You have experience setting up and conducting user tests and can validate your ideas.\n* You'll provide a portfolio demonstrating your design process and deliverables of mobile apps\n* You have experience in Agile development and scrum\n* You have a solid experience with (design) tools such as Figma, Maze, Miro etc.\n* You have experience designing for the African markets.\n* Bachelor's degree in design, human computer interaction or related field.\n\n\n\nWHATS IN IT FOR YOU\n* Great compensation package\n* Remote work #LI-Remote\n* Private health insurance (inpatient outpatient, maternity, eye care, dental and gym facilities)\n* Group Life Cover and Personal Accident Cover\n* Company pension (A mandatory basic national social security scheme)\n* Remote working (dependent on the nature of the role)\n* Airtime allowance (dependent on the nature of the role)\n* MIFI monthly payment for remote workers\n* 20 days per annum (excluding public holidays). Annual leave is accrued at the standard rate of 1.67 days per month.\n\n\n\n\n\n- -\n\n\nDiversity@M-KOPA\n\n\nM-KOPA is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to assembling a diverse, broadly trained staff. Women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.\nM-KOPA does not collect/charge any money as a pre-employment or post-employment requirement. This means that we never ask for ‘recruitment fees’, ‘processing fees’, ‘interview fees’ or any other kind of money in exchange for offer letters or interviews at any time during the hiring process. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Designer, Finance, Mobile, Senior, Android, Sales and Digital Nomad jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $102,500/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nLagos

\nJoin us as a Software Engineer\n* Join a new Agile development team, who aim to disrupt the mortgages market by taking a revolutionary, customer centric approach to redesigning the way customers manage their mortgage, delivering a helpful and hassle free journey\n* Use the best technologies to show our customers a new way to manage their mortgage, one they’d never have thought would be possible\n* We’re a top three mortgage lender with ambitions to grow further, so your solutions will make a difference to millions of lives\n* You’ll be joining the programme from the start, so it’s a chance to deliver something truly special from its early stages\n\nWhat you'll do\nWe’re taking a giant leap forward to change the home ownership experience forever, and have true Agile development and the latest technologies to help us do it.\n\nYou'll take a leading role in the technical design, development and testing of complex front-end applications and services, working with a team of software engineers to create truly innovative solutions that deliver on our ambition.\n\nYou’ll lead in exploring the pros and cons of solution design options to stakeholders to reach the best possible decision. From initial planning to delivery, you'll work closely with a wide range of business and technical stakeholders to build solutions that define needs our customers never knew they had.\n\nYour responsibilities will include:\n* Producing modular code which tests well, and is carefully designed with future scalability in mind\n* Using your experience to help guide the strategic direction for user interface and user experience design\n* Making sure we build software that’s consistent with the frameworks in use across the wider engineering community when applied at their best\n* Using your up-to-date understanding of industry best practice to tackle complex problems where there might be no proven route to success\n* Developing and mentoring less experienced engineers by providing constructive, understandable feedback, and facilitating opportunities for practical learning\n\nThe skills you'll need\nWere looking for a fantastic collaborator with significant experience in front end development, who has a history of working on large technology change programmes. You’ll be experienced in working with cloud technologies, and will have a particular focus on service oriented architecture and event driven programming, plus knowledge of security technologies.\n\nWe'll look to you to be well versed in Agile development, continuous integration and test automation, as well as being a great development team member who fosters and strengthens a spirit of transparency and teamwork.\n\nYou’ll also bring:\n* A positive and pragmatic approach to getting new projects off the ground, and the proven ability to encourage cooperation among a multi-disciplinary team\n* Experience of using modern web development technologies, such as HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript, and Java 8\n* Experience of the whole software development lifecycle and an informed appreciation of how software and system design decisions affect practical considerations\n* Experience in using CI or CD toolsets for code development including the build, test and deployment\n* Demonstrable experience in developing software in a cloud environment, preferably Pivotal Cloud Foundry\n* An excellent understanding of Query performance and optimising code as well as UX design principles\n\nExperience in a financial services or FinTech environment would be very welcome, but isn’t essential if you have the enthusiasm to make an impact on the industry.\n\nHow we'll reward you\nIn return, we offer a competitive salary and you'll also join our retirement savings plan. You can also choose from a selection of protection, healthcare or lifestyle extras from RBSelect, our fully flexible reward programme.\n\nVisit our reward and benefits page for more information on the benefit packages we offer. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, Finance, Java and Cloud jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nWhat we're building\n\nScratchpay provides pet parents with simple friendly payment plans. We help pet parents to provide the care their pets need, easing the financial barrier. We are growing fast in the veterinary space and Veterinarian, Pet owners and pets across the US love us! Come help us help more pets!\n\nAbout the position\n\nThis is about building the ecosystem for Scratchpay. Building micro-services, building the backbone and the organs of Scratchpay services so we can deliver the best experience to our borrowers and clinics.\n\nThis is about pushing the edge of what has been done in Finance and Lending to build a scalable platform that can serve all-the-pets. However many (but the more the merrier). This is about working with a brilliant team that's been growing from 0 to 1 in 2 years and that is helping pets in 47 states in the US.\n\nThis job is for you if you recognize yourself in this:\n\n\n* I am a good mind\n\n* I can think for myself\n\n* I am critical of myself and others\n\n* I am always respectful\n\n* I ask questions when needed\n\n* I can understand the boundaries but have a lot of fun within them\n\n* I take my work seriously and never let down people\n\n* I work hard because I want to do the best that I can right now\n\n* I always observe and reflect on how to do better tomorrow\n\n* I like animals\n\n\n\n\nQualifications Required\n\n\n* Have a sharp eye for UI and and strong empathy for UX\n\n* Feel the love for both pixels and people using them!\n\n* Strong coding skills, ability to use TDD if needed (hint: it will)\n\n* Ability to design, write and test code, algorithms, whether in the front-end, back-end, you-name-it (Cloud Functions?)\n\n* Ability to switch between languages, not vendor-locked-in\n\n* A principled approach to development. You should be opinionated but you shouldn't be die-hard about your opinions because after all, maybe you're wrong (but maybe not?)\n\n* The understanding that any one line of code written can lead to catastrophic consequences if not thought out carefully! (Am not kiddin', just look at the heartbleed security issue)\n\n* Ability to code in either Javascript/Node, Go or Python (or PHP….)\n\n* Ability to switch between frameworks (front-end, back-end, you-name-it)\n\n* An eye for design and a good front-end skills. Maybe not pixel perfect level but the ability to develop something that will look good and work across devices\n\n* Understanding what is color theory and domain driven design\n\n* Knowing what Agile and Scrum are\n\n\n\n\nYou will:\n\n\n* Build services using TDD practice\n\n* Build great UI and amazing UX\n\n* Work within a Scrum team of fun and talented people\n\n* Design and implement systems\n\n* Run tests, find issues, escalate, discuss solutions\n\n* Work in a highly scalable cloud computing environment with the difficulties scalability brings\n\n* Build a platform and an ecosystem of services that will in turn make for a great UX for pet parents and clinics!\n\n* Build, deploy and maintain your own work\n\n* Learn anything you feel like that's necessary for the job, however challenging, however you like it\n\n* Be part of an exciting adventure\n\n\n\n\nHow to know if you are a good fit?\n\nYou will have to:\n\n\n* Have empathy;\n\n\n\n* Understanding the position of others is critical. It is necessary to navigate through communication, mitigation and the culture\n\n\n\n* Be independent;\n\n\n\n* Yet know when to raise a point or ask for a clarification or escalate a potential issue\n\n\n\n* Communicate;\n\n\n\n* Speak your mind and expect others to. Engage in respectful and mindful conflict. Quality > quantity.\n\n\n\n* Know your stuff and know what you don't know;\n\n\n\n* No one is perfect but everyone can learn. Be humble enough to know your weaknesses. Be open minded and hard working enough to be able to fix them.\n\n\n\n* Take constructive critics;\n\n\n\n* Ask yourself "how to know if I'm wrong?". You may not, but not challenging your thinking is unhealthy. We challenge each other a lot @Scratchpay.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur culture\n\nWe care about the human aspect of work and we expect others to. Excellence is also an important keyword @ Scratchpay. While everyone makes mistakes, we learn from them. We are conscious about efficiency and effectiveness in the positive way. We don't do things that bring low-to-no value short or long term. We also do hard things that bring a lot of value. Quality, attention to detail and respect are some of the traits you must have and expect others to have.\n\nThe good\n\n\n* We are a team of dedicated, hard working, friendly individuals\n\n* We move fast, sometimes break things with measure, we give a second chance\n\n* We give constructive feedback, we challenge each other\n\n* We are open-minded and we care for each other\n\n* Everyone is striving towards excellence. Mediocrity isn't our cup of tea. But we always work hard to help those that are willing to get there!\n\n\n\n\nThe bad\n\n\n* Everything goes fast and the ultimate goal is to move the business fast. There can be disconnects in the communication at times. We all need to navigate through this and push whenever it is critical to do so.\n\n* We are open-minded but things need to be moving forward.\n\n* We say what we have to. So expect to hear some unpleasant - but true - things sometimes. Don't hesitate to argue back - with respect - if you disagree.\n\n* Like any startup, It can be a mess some days. You also will likely have to do things that aren't in your scope sometimes. Part of the fun, right? ;)\n\n\n\n\nThe most important is: We are always looking at improving. All the time, step by step. If you feel mediocre and don't see a path to improvement or can't listen to others' voice to, please do not apply. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Full Stack, Design, Developer, Digital Nomad, Finance, Cloud and Python jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nWhat we're building\n\nScratchpay provides pet parents with simple friendly payment plans. We help pet parents to provide the care their pets need, easing the financial barrier. We are growing fast in the veterinary space and Veterinarian, Pet owners and pets across the US love us! Come help us help more pets!\n\n\nAbout the position\n\nThis is about building the ecosystem for Scratchpay. Building micro-services, building the backbone and the organs of Scratchpay services so we can deliver the best experience to our borrowers and clinics. \n\nThis is about pushing the edge of what has been done in Finance and Lending to build a scalable platform that can serve all-the-pets. However many (but the more the merrier). This is about working with a brilliant team that's been growing from 0 to 1 in 2 years and that is helping pets in 47 states in the US.\n\nThis job is for you if you recognize yourself in this:\n\n\n* I am a good mind\n\n* I can think for myself\n\n* I am critical of myself and others\n\n* I am always respectful\n\n* I ask questions when needed\n\n* I can understand the boundaries but have a lot of fun within them\n\n* I take my work seriously and never let down people\n\n* I work hard because I want to do the best that I can right now\n\n* I always observe and reflect on how to do better tomorrow\n\n* I like animals\n\n\n\n\n\nQualifications Required\n\n\n* Strong coding skills, ability to use TDD if needed (hint: it will)\n\n* Ability to design, write and test code, algorithms, whether in the front-end, back-end, you-name-it (Cloud Functions?)\n\n* Ability to switch between languages, not vendor-locked-in\n\n* A principled approach to development. You should be opinionated but you should be die-hard about your opinions because after all, maybe you're wrong (but maybe not?)\n\n* The understanding that any one line of code written can lead to catastrophic consequences if not thought out carefully! (Am not kiddin', just look at the heartbleed security issue)\n\n* Ability to code in either Javascript/Node, Go or Python (or PHP….)\n\n* Ability to switch between frameworks (front-end, back-end, you-name-it)\n\n* An eye for design and a good front-end skills. Maybe not pixel perfect level but the ability to develop something that will look good and work across devices\n\n* Understanding what is color theory and domain driven design\n\n* Knowing what Agile and Scrum are\n\n\n\n\nYou will:\n\n\n* Build services using TDD practice\n\n* Work within a Scrum team of fun and talented people\n\n* Design and implement systems\n\n* Run tests, find issues, escalate, discuss solutions\n\n* Work in a highly scalable cloud computing environment with the difficulties scalability brings\n\n* Build a platform and an ecosystem of services that will in turn make for a great UX for pet parents and clinics!\n\n* Build, deploy and maintain your own work\n\n* Learn anything you feel like that's necessary for the job, however challenging, however you like it\n\n* Be part of an exciting adventure\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to know if you are a good fit?\n\nYou will have to:\n\n\n* Have empathy;\n\n\n\n* Understanding the position of others is critical. It is necessary to navigate through communication, mitigation and the culture\n\n\n\n* Be independent;\n\n\n\n* Yet know when to raise a point or ask for a clarification or escalate a potential issue\n\n\n\n* Communicate;\n\n\n\n* Speak your mind and expect others to. Engage in respectful and mindful conflict. Quality > quantity.\n\n\n\n* Know your stuff and know what you don't know;\n\n\n\n* No one is perfect but everyone can learn. Be humble enough to know your weaknesses. Be open minded and hard working enough to be able to fix them.\n\n\n\n* Take constructive critics;\n\n\n\n* Ask yourself "how to know if I'm wrong?". You may not, but not challenging your thinking is unhealthy. We challenge each other a lot @Scratchpay.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur culture\n\nWe care about the human aspect of work and we expect others to. Excellence is also an important keyword @ Scratchpay. While everyone makes mistakes, we learn from them. We are conscious about efficiency and effectiveness in the positive way. We don't do things that bring low-to-no value short or long term. We also do hard things that bring a lot of value. Quality, attention to detail and respect are some of the traits you must have and expect others to have.\n\nThe good\n\n\n* We are a team of dedicated, hard working, friendly individuals\n\n* We move fast, sometimes break things with measure, we give a second chance\n\n* We give constructive feedback, we challenge each other\n\n* We are open-minded and we care for each other\n\n* Everyone is striving towards excellence. Mediocrity isn't our cup of tea. But we always work hard to help those that are willing to get there!\n\n\n\n\nThe bad\n\n\n* Everything goes fast and the ultimate goal is to move the business fast. There can be disconnects in the communication at times. We all need to navigate through this and push whenever it is critical to do so.\n\n* We are open-minded but things need to be moving forward.\n\n* We say what we have to. So expect to hear some unpleasant - but true - things sometimes. Don't hesitate to argue back - with respect - if you disagree.\n\n* Like any startup, It can be a mess some days. You also will likely have to do things that aren't in your scope sometimes. Part of the fun, right? ;)\n\n\n\n\n\nThe most important is: We are always looking at improving. All the time, step by step. If you feel mediocre and don't see a path to improvement or can't listen to others' voice to, please do not apply. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Full Stack, Developer, Digital Nomad, Finance, Cloud and Python jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $125,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n