AES Global is seeking an Intermediate Front-End Engineer to build fast, accessible UI components in React. You’ll transform Figma designs into production-ready code, collaborate with designers, backend engineers and product managers, and contribute to a maintainable codebase with tests and CI. You’ll own medium-size features end-to-end, optimise performance, and uphold WCAG AA accessibility. In-office role with flexitime in Cape Town or Johannesburg, hybrid options may apply depending on
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About Engineering work in Western Cape
Engineering demand in South Africa tracks infrastructure, mining and manufacturing capital cycles, so it moves in waves rather than steadily. ECSA registration is the dividing line in this profession: candidate or professional registration materially changes both what you are permitted to sign off and what you can command. Keep your training logbook current even between contracts. Reconstructing a gap in the record years later is slow, expensive, and occasionally impossible.
Cape Town’s economy leans on tourism, hospitality, wine, business process outsourcing and a substantial technology sector. The call centre and BPO industry is a large and steady entry-level employer, particularly for matriculants with strong English fluency.
Engineering jobs on JobsJunction
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