Frontend Engineer

About the role

Kolomoni Microfinance Institution is looking for a Frontend Engineer to create responsive, secure, and high‑performance interfaces for customers, agents, and internal teams. The work will often run on low‑end devices with unreliable connections, where reliability is critical.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain modern frontend applications using JavaScript/TypeScript and a contemporary framework.
• Translate approved product and UI/UX specifications into functional, reusable components.
• Implement state management, secure authentication, session handling, and role‑based access.
• Handle loading, success, failure, and edge‑case states, ensuring graceful degradation.
• Optimize applications for performance, responsiveness, and security across supported devices.

Required profile

• Strong attention to detail in implementing designs and ensuring usability.
• Experience with Git, automated frontend testing, and browser debugging.
• Ability to work collaboratively with backend engineers on API contracts.

Required skills

• JavaScript and/or TypeScript.
• Modern frontend framework (e.g., React, Angular, Vue).
• HTML5 and CSS3, responsive design.
• REST API integration.
• Application state management.
• Authentication and authorization concepts.
• Frontend security principles.
• Git version control.
• Automated frontend testing.
• Browser debugging and performance optimisation.