Senior Frontend Developer

About us

At Tana, we believe that your skills and your character define you, not where in the world you were born. We empower brilliant young people in Africa to start meaningful careers by training them for tech and data roles, and embedding them into full-time, remote positions with companies across North America and Europe. We're a rapidly growing start-up headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, with a vision to change the world of work.

Position Overview

We are hiring a Senior Frontend Developer to build and maintain the user interface of a commercial real estate software platform. The platform helps companies manage property leases, documents, key dates, tasks and lease accounting compliance.

You will develop data-heavy enterprise interfaces in React and TypeScript, including complex forms, data grids, dashboards and reporting. This role requires someone who can independently take features from brief to deployment, proactively suggest improvements and learn unfamiliar libraries and parts of the stack.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the platform's user interface in React and TypeScript, using the Material-UI component library.
• Build reusable, well-tested components for the wider team.
• Connect the frontend to the GraphQL API and keep data loading fast, using Relay.
• Develop multi-step lease forms with validation, large data grids with server-side pagination and filtering, dashboards, charts, reporting and document previews.
• Keep the application performant, responsive and accessible.
• Own features end to end, from scoping with the architect through implementation, testing, code review and deployment.
• Support multi-tenant theming and internationalisation, including right-to-left languages.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional frontend development experience.
• Expert React skills, including hooks, context, state management and performance optimisation.
• Strong TypeScript experience across a large codebase, beyond basic typing.
• Experience consuming GraphQL APIs from the frontend. The platform uses Relay; Apollo or similar experience is acceptable.
• Frontend testing as a normal part of development, using tools such as Jest, Vitest or React Testing Library.
• Experience with modern build tools such as Vite or webpack.
• Experience building data-heavy enterprise interfaces, including complex forms, data tables and dashboards.
• Ability to independently take a feature from brief to shipped.
• A proactive approach to identifying UX and technical problems and suggesting improvements.
• Ability to learn new libraries and parts of the stack, including working from documentation.

Nice to have

• Experience with Material-UI, Minimals UI or a similar design system.
• Accessibility experience, including WCAG 2.1, and internationalisation experience, including right-to-left languages.
• C#/.NET exposure sufficient to read backend code.
• Experience with MongoDB or Cosmos DB.
• Experience with Azure, AWS or GCP.

Location: Remote (based in Kenya)

Working Hours: 1:00 PM–10:00 PM EAT

Contracting: If selected, you will be hired by Tana and embedded full-time with the client.

Before you apply: Please set aside 25–30 minutes to complete your application, including short written responses and two brief video answers. Have your CV ready and choose a quiet place where you can record. The application cannot be saved as a draft, so please complete and submit it in one sitting.

How to apply: Please apply through the application link below. We look forward to getting to know you!