About us

We’re Deriv, the geeky upstarts who pioneered an industry 20 years ago. Today, with over a million traders worldwide and 400+ employees, we enable anyone to get trading from anywhere, at any time.

Deriv (RW) Ltd is the latest addition to our offices around the globe. A response to our growing customer base across Africa and our commitment to them.  Be part of something big. Join us.

Our team

You’ll be part of our Front-end team, where we use coding to turn designs into engaging user interfaces for our trading platforms.

 Your role

As a Front-end Developer at Deriv.com, you will be in charge of our application development with a strong focus on improving the user experience. Your clean, maintainable code makes it easy for back-end developers and designers to work seamlessly with you. By building responsive and scalable front-end systems that support complex user-facing software, you’ll bring our products and features to life.

What you’ll do

• Develop and maintain advanced features, tools, and applications according to best practices in front-end development, UI/UX, and responsive web application development.
• Test and debug our evolving product line to improve speed, scalability, and usability across browsers, devices, and web standards.
• Stay on top of the latest JavaScript frameworks, libraries, and tools to solve challenges related to web and mobile development.
• Ensure the design and development of each product is consistent with our style guide.
• Research new web technologies and make recommendations on opportunities to improve our user interface.

What you have

• Ability to write high-quality, self-documenting code using test-driven development

techniques

• Experience in responsive web design
• Extensive experience of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Experience with package managers (npm), task runners (Gulp, Webpack, Grunt), CSS

processors (Sass, Stylus), and APIs (WebSocket)

• Familiarity with various JavaScript standards, libraries, frameworks, compilers, and

transpilers including ES6, Babel, Web Workers, and React

• Extensive knowledge in advanced coding techniques and cross-platform development
• Familiarity with testing and debugging processes, including unit testing and UI testing
• Passion for Linux and other open-source platforms

What’s good to have

• Knowledge of information security and data protection
• Good grasp of user experience and user interface design
• Familiarity with search engine optimisation (SEO)
• Knowledge of back-end technologies

What we’ll give you

• Growth-inducing challenges
• Cooperative work environment
• Career advancement opportunities
• Market-based salary
• Annual performance bonus
• Casual dress code