Frontend Engineer
Full Job Description
About the Job
We are building a next-generation quick commerce platform focused on speed, reliability, and exceptional user experience. As an early team member, you will work closely with founders and play a key role in shaping both the product and engineering culture.
Role Overview
We are looking for a Frontend Engineer (React) who goes beyond just implementing designs. This role is for someone who can own the frontend experience end-to-end, actively drive product requirements, and collaborate closely with customers, operations teams, and founders. You won’t be handed perfect specs — you’ll help define them.
What You’ll Do
- Own and build high-quality React applications for customer-facing apps and delivery/driver applications.
- Work directly with founders, product, and business teams to understand real-world problems and translate ambiguous requirements into working solutions.
- Drive feature development end-to-end: requirement clarification → design → implementation → iteration.
- Take initiative in improving user experience, performance, scalability, and engineering practices.
- Collaborate with backend engineers to define APIs and system behavior.
- Continuously gather feedback from users and stakeholders and refine the product.
What We’re Looking For
- 2–3 years of experience in frontend development.
- Strong proficiency in React.js and modern JavaScript (ES6+).
- Experience with state management (Redux, Zustand, or similar) and REST APIs and async data handling.
- Experience with responsive and mobile-first design.
- Practical understanding of Android and iOS app lifecycle (build → release → monitoring → iteration), with the ability to proactively handle production readiness and debug real-world issues.
- Ability to work in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
- Strong ownership mindset — you don’t wait for instructions.
- Good communication skills and ability to work with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Product thinking: you care about why something is built, not just how.
Nice to Have
- Experience building consumer-facing or logistics apps.
- Familiarity with performance optimization and frontend architecture.
- Experience working in early-stage startups.
- Basic understanding of backend systems / APIs.
What Sets This Role Apart
- Work directly with founders — no layers.
- High ownership: you will shape the product, not just code it.
- Opportunity to lead the frontend for both customer and driver apps.
- Fast learning curve and real impact from day one.
Who This Role Is NOT For
- Someone who waits for detailed specs before starting.
- Someone who prefers strictly defined tasks with no ambiguity.
- Someone who is only interested in coding, not product.
Why Join Us
- Build something from 0 → 1 in quick commerce.
- High ownership, high impact role.
- Opportunity to grow into a frontend/product leader.
Company
Stealth Startup
A stealth startup is building a next-generation quick commerce platform with a focus on speed, reliability, and exceptional user experience, specifically targeting the African market. As an early team...