React Software Engineer: Intermediate

As a Software Engineer (Intermediate, React) at Syspro, you will own the design, build, and delivery of user-facing components and features using React and modern front-end technologies, contributing meaningfully to front-end architecture and design decisions. You will navigate ambiguity and complexity with minimal oversight, mentor junior engineers, and help drive engineering quality, performance, and usability within your team.
This is a hands-on engineering role with growing expectations for technical ownership, sound design judgement, and peer mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain components and features using React, TypeScript, and modern front-end technologies.
• Own components and features end-to-end: analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing support.
• Build reusable React components, implementing routing, state management, and component composition using functional components and hooks.
• Translate product requirements and UX designs into production-quality solutions, working closely with UX/UI to implement designs accurately.
• Integrate front-end applications with REST APIs and back-end services, handling asynchronous JavaScript and JSON data.
• Contribute to front-end architecture discussions, bringing sound technical judgement to component design and state-management decisions.
• Apply SOLID and component-design principles (composition, reusability, separation of concerns) to the features you build.
• Debug and resolve issues in unfamiliar or complex parts of the front-end codebase.
• Apply distributed-systems thinking (resilience, scalability, cost optimisation) to the front-end services and integrations you own.
• Consider SaaS delivery factors, such as scalability and multi-tenancy, when building components and features.
• Promote sound test strategy and help the team improve automated test coverage (unit, component, integration).
• Optimise front-end performance (load time, rendering, bundle size) and follow recognised accessibility (WCAG) practices.
• Apply secure front-end development practices and follow Syspro’s secure coding standards.
• Mentor junior engineers on code quality and clarity through reviews and pairing.
• Customise Azure DevOps boards, automate workflows, and manage build and release pipelines.
• Resolve merge conflicts and rebasing issues, and keep CI/CD pipeline configuration up to date.
• Contribute to modernising legacy user interfaces into modern, componentised React experiences, under senior engineering guidance.
• Collaborate with Product, UX/UI, Architecture, Quality, and back-end engineering teams to deliver outcomes.
• Clarify requirements, edge cases, and trade-offs with Product and other stakeholders, and help prioritise features based on business impact.
• Lead technical discussions within the team and handle disagreements constructively.
• Coach teammates on Agile best practice and facilitate syncs with other teams.
• Own delivery of features that span team boundaries, seeing them through from design to production.
• Navigate ambiguous requirements and make sound trade-off decisions with minimal oversight.
• Support technical decisions in planning sessions.
• Drive retrospectives and continuous improvement, and help decompose epics into deliverable, well-scoped work.
• Support peers’ growth by helping them plan their own development.
• Identify and drive improvements in how the team works together.
• Surface technical risks, dependencies, and impediments early.

Requirements

Minimum Level of Education

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field (e.g. Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems etc.)

Beneficial Qualifications
Relevant certifications

Minimum Experience

• 4 - 6 years of software development experience, with demonstrated ownership of components or technical areas
• Professional experience in React and TypeScript, including component architecture, React Hooks, routing, and state management
• Experience navigating ambiguity and making trade-off decisions with minimal oversight
• Solid experience integrating front-end applications with REST APIs and back-end services, including asynchronous JavaScript and JSON data handling
• Practical experience with modern front-end build and package-management tooling (e.g., npm, Vite, or Webpack), and Git-based source control
• Practical experience working in an agile delivery environment and using Azure DevOps (or equivalent)

Beneficial Experience

• Experience in enterprise software, ERP, SaaS, or complex multi-team product environments
• Familiarity with back-end technologies (e.g., C#/.NET) and API design, to support effective collaboration with back-end engineering teams
• Experience with automated testing frameworks (Jest, Vitest, React Testing Library) and browser-based end-to-end testing (Playwright, Cypress, or similar)
• Experience with design systems, component libraries, and modern styling approaches (CSS Modules, Sass, or CSS-in-JS)
• Exposure to cloud platforms and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)

Security and compliance patterns relevant to enterprise software

Special Skills and Knowledge

• Strong understanding of engineering quality: coding standards, reviews, and testing practices
• Strong communication skills, comfortable leading discussions and handling disagreements constructively
• Ownership mindset: sees cross-functional deliverables through from design to delivery
• Strong problem-solving skills, comfortable debugging unfamiliar or complex code
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and making sound trade-off decisions with minimal oversight
• Collaborative team player who coaches others on Agile practice and facilitates cross-team coordination
• Supports peers’ growth through mentoring and constructive feedback, and looks for ways to improve how the team works together

Customer and product focus: understands how front-end engineering decisions affect usability, performance, and the experience delivered to end users

Benefits

• 25 annual leave days
• 30 days paid sick leave over 3-year cycle
• Hybrid working environment (3 office days as determined by the function/ manager)
• Pension 10%
• Medical aid
• Life insurance
• Income continuation protection
• Funeral Benefit
• Provident Fund Admin Fee
• Global Education Protection
• Bonus/ commission programmes
• Maternity: 6 months at half pay
• Paternity: 2 weeks full pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Free Barista Coffee Daily
• Gym Facilities
• Free Daily Lunch
• Free Fruit on a Tuesday & Thursday
• Free Refreshments & Snacks Daily