Front End Engineer Job ICRC
Looking for an IT job in Kenya? ICRC is hiring a Front End Engineer skilled in Frappe Framework/UI, Vue.js, Progressive Web App (PWA) development, offline UX architecture, and Git version control.
Purpose
The Front-end engineer customises Frappe Desk, builds the end-user Progressive Web App (PWA) on Frappe UI; owns offline-first behaviour. They develop the frontend according to priorities defined by the product owner and architects.
Responsibilities
- Designs, develops, and maintains the new Protection digital ecosystem frontend and PWA application using the Frappe Framework;
- Customizes Frappe Desk for advanced users (data managers, analysts, administrators);
- Performs acceptance by users of varying digital skills is an explicit design goal – interaction patterns, training-light flows, in-app guidance, and low-friction error handling;
- Provides guidance on design system extension and field-workflow UX patterns;
- Troubleshoots bugs, performance issues, and production incidents;
- Monitors frontend application performance, uptime, logs;
- Performs code reviews and maintains technical documentation;
- Collaborates with product owner, business experts, ICRC architects, UX team, external consultants, other member of the agile delivery team, and opensource communities;
- Anticipates UI and end-users’ needs, identifies and solves problems;
- Resolves assigned incidents and requests while ensuring resolution time commitments are met according to the service and operational level agreements.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in IT engineering degree or equivalent. ITIL & DevOps certification is an asset;
- Minimum 5 years frontend UI dev skills, of which 2+ on Frappe UI (Vue) in production;
- Ability to understand and collaborate in the refinement of Functional Requirements, and design fit for purpose solution designs;
- Deep PWA / Service Workers / Background Sync experience; client-side persistence patterns; conflict UI; offline UX;
- Knowledge of Docker/Podman, Linux;
- Familiarity with Git version control;
- Frontend testing discipline;
- Right-To-Left (RTL) layouts, i18n;
- Excellent command (spoken and written) of English. Fluency in French is an advantage;
- Contribution to the Frappe UI ecosystem a strong plus;
- Experience working with Azure DevOps is a plus.
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