Senior React Developer

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📍 South Africa
📅 Posted 2026-08-21 · via Himalayas
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Our clients platform seamlessly connects users with the best venues in real time, making spontaneous nights out effortless. As they scale, they are looking for a Senior React Developer with strong SEO expertise to help enhance their platform’s performance, search visibility, and user experience.
Your Role

As a Senior React Developer, you’ll be at the forefront of our frontend development, ensuring our platform is fast, responsive, and search-engine optimized. You’ll collaborate with backend engineers, designers, and marketing teams to build and maintain high-performing, SEO-friendly web applications.
Requirements
What You’ll Do

- Develop and maintain scalable React applications with a strong focus on performance and SEO best practices.

- Implement server-side rendering (SSR), dynamic rendering, and structured data to optimize search visibility.

- Work with Java to integrate frontend components with backend services.

- Optimize code for Core Web Vitals, ensuring smooth and fast user experiences.

- Collaborate with marketing and product teams to enhance technical SEO, including metadata management, schema markup, and crawlability improvements.

- Work with Next.js (or other SSR frameworks) to enhance frontend performance.

- Conduct code reviews, mentor junior developers, and contribute to best practices in React development.

What We’re Looking For

- 5+ years of experience in frontend development with React.js.

- Strong understanding of Java for backend integration.

- Expertise in SEO for JavaScript applications, including SSR, metadata optimization, and structured data.

- Experience with Next.js (or similar frameworks) to improve SEO and performance.

- Deep knowledge of RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and modern web development practices.

- Familiarity with tools like Google Search Console, Lighthouse, and WebPageTest to analyze and optimize performance.

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and agile methodologies.

- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment.

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