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Front end developer in Cape Town

Job description

We are seeking a skilled Front-End Developer with strong expertise in Angular and a keen eye for UI/UX design to significantly improve the usability, look, and overall experience of our Epi-control platform at our Cape Town office in South Africa. The ideal candidate has experience translating complex user needs into intuitive, responsive, and easy-to-use interfaces. You will be part of our R&D team, collaborating closely with our back-end developer, data scientists, and our CTO. This role offers the opportunity to shape a product used across global healthcare programmes and contribute to impactful, meaningful work.

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Key Responsabilities 

• Redesign and modernize the existing front-end of our Epi-control platform

• Create intuitive, user-friendly interfaces aligned with best practices in UI/UX design, accessibility, and performance

• Develop modular, scalable components using Angular and TypeScript and maintain a consistent design system

• Collaborate with data scientists and back-end developers to integrate APIs and visualise data effectively.

• Conduct user testing sessions, gather feedback, and translate insights into UX/UI improvements

• Optimize application performance across devices, ensuring smooth interaction and fast load times

• Implement responsive design principles and ensure cross-browser compatibility

• Contribute to CI/CD processes for front-end builds, automated testing, and deployments

• Support the definition of front-end architecture and best practices to ensure maintainability and scalability

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Educational background and skills

• Minimum 3 years of work experience in a front-end development role

• Strong proficiency in Angular and TypeScript, including components, services, RxJS, routing, and state management. Experience with Angular state management solutions such as NgRx (or similar) is a plus.

• Solid experience with HTML5, CSS and responsive design principles

• Demonstrated understanding of UI/UX design principles, information architecture, and user-centred design

• Experience collaborating with designers or working from Figma/Sketch/Adobe XD wireframes.

• Familiarity with front-end testing frameworks (Jasmine, Karma, Cypress, etc.). Comfortable writing unit tests and end-to-end tests as part of your daily workflow.

• Experience working with RESTful APIs and visualising complex datasets

• Familiarity with Git-based workflows

• Nice-to-have: Experience with data visualisation libraries (e.g., D3.js, Chart.js)

• Nice-to-have: Experience with CI/CD tools such as Bitbucket Pipelines, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or AWS CodePipeline

• Excellent attention to detail and ability to translate technical requirements into polished user experiences

• Ability to work accurately, creatively, and independently

• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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What we offer you

• We are a dynamic, growing company that encourages innovation and growth

• Have a direct, positive impact on global healthcare

• Company budget for trainings and courses

• 25 vacation days per year

• Multiple team outings per year

• Offsite event once a year with the whole team from Belgium and South Africa 

• Working in a hybrid manner is possible, with two office days per week at our shared office in Workshop17, Newlands.