Senior Front end Developer

We’re Hiring! Join Us as a Senior Front‑end Developer

(Johannesburg • Cape Town • Remote – South Africa)

Are you ready to build tech that changes lives? At Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator, we’re not your typical organisation — we’re driven by impact, obsessed with results, powered by integrity, and united by a mission bigger than ourselves: solving youth unemployment through partnerships.

We innovate. We collaborate. We move fast. And we’re looking for a Senior Front‑end Developer who thrives in environments where purpose meets cutting‑edge tech.

✨ What You’ll Do

As our next Senior Front‑end Developer, you’ll be a key contributor to building seamless user experiences that help unlock jobs and opportunities for young people across the country.

You will:

• Design and develop exceptional front‑end features using React, modern UI frameworks, and web best practices.
• Collaborate closely with designers, product teams, and back‑end engineers to build elegant, scalable solutions.
• Lead by example — mentor junior developers and contribute to improving engineering standards.
• Champion clean code, accessibility, reusability, and maintainability.
• Drive improvements in performance, reliability, and application experience.
• Bring innovative ideas that push our platform forward.

✨ Because “HOW we do it is just as important as WHAT we do.”

What You’ll Bring

We’re looking for someone who brings both technical mastery and the Harambee spirit:

• Computer Science (or related) degree.
• Microsoft or other cloud‑related certification.
• 5 years solid experience building front‑end applications in React (plus HTML, CSS, JavaScript mastery).
• Ability to work across modern toolchains and CI/CD practices.
• A portfolio or track record of clean, thoughtful, user‑centric development.
• Experience working in Agile teams.
• A drive for continuous learning and improvement.
• A collaborative mindset — you love working with people as much as you love writing great code.

If you’re passionate, adaptable, and keen to leave things better than you found them, you’ll feel right at home.

People living with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Why Join Us?

Working at Harambee means being part of a team that is:

• Purpose‑driven, solving one of South Africa’s biggest social challenges.
• Fast‑paced and exciting, filled with new tech, new ideas, and meaningful work.
• Collaborative, with partners across government, business, and civil society.
• Impact‑focused, always pushing boundaries to achieve real, measurable change.

This is your chance to build products that matter and be part of something that truly changes lives.