Frontend Developer

Bring your skills as a Frontend Developer to East London and join a team that moves fast. This Eastern Cape role is one to watch.

Overview

The Frontend Developer position is part of an ongoing recruitment drive across Eastern Cape. The brief has been shaped carefully, with a focus on delivery in East London and across the it jobs space.

On top of that, the organisation keeps reporting lines clean and expectations realistic. Performance is measured against a small, agreed set of metrics, and there are no surprise yardsticks for the Frontend Developer taking on this position.

Stakeholders for this position include line managers, peers across the it jobs team and trusted external partners. Building those relationships early makes the next twelve months in East London much easier.

Diversity and Inclusion

Diverse teams build stronger workplaces. Applications are welcome from candidates of every background, language and community across Eastern Cape, and recruitment is fair, transparent and aligned with the EE Act.

Practical steps back the words. Structured EE reporting, transformation initiatives and learnership programmes give real opportunities to candidates from across Eastern Cape.

B-BBEE compliance is more than a scorecard here. It informs how the business invests in skills development, supplier diversity and community engagement across the country.

About the Team

You will join a tight-knit, collaborative team that knows the it jobs side of the business inside out. The East London group is a healthy mix of experienced operators and newer joiners, all of whom share a strong commitment to delivery and to one another.

Collaboration is the default working mode. Whether picking up a quick query or working through a complex project, you will find colleagues willing to lean in and help.

Line management is hands-on without being heavy. Expect regular one-to-ones, honest feedback and the support needed to do good work consistently.

Where You’ll Work

In addition, the environment is hybrid-friendly where the role allows, with collaborative tooling, modern source-control workflows and a strong emphasis on shared ownership of code and incidents.

A respectful, professional environment is the standard in Eastern Cape. Bullying, harassment and unfair conduct have no place here, and managers are trained to act decisively when concerns are raised.

Notably, the working environment is set up to give the team the focus needed for deeper work, while keeping collaboration and quick problem-solving close at hand.

Your Role

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for reliable, repeatable releases
• Manage user access, identity and endpoint security across the estate
• Investigate and resolve user-reported support tickets at L2 and L3
• Plan and execute infrastructure upgrades with minimal downtime
• Monitor system health using observability tools and respond to alerts
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and structured feedback

Who We’re Looking For

• Good written and verbal communication for technical and non-technical audiences
• Hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases
• Experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes) is an advantage
• Understanding of secure development principles aligned with POPIA
• 2-5 years’ commercial software development experience
• Ability to mentor junior team members on best practices
• Reliable home internet for hybrid work where applicable

Each application is reviewed carefully, and strong matches against the criteria above will move forward in the process.