Software Engineer-Front End | Technology | Ogilvy AfricaNew

The Full-Stack Developer designs, develops, and maintains both frontend and backend components of web applications. The role ensures seamless integration between user interfaces, application logic, and data layers while delivering secure, high-performance, and scalable solutions. The developer collaborates with cross-functional teams, contributes to technical decision-making, and continuously improves system performance, code quality, and user experience across the stack.

• Collaborate with colleagues and cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions across frontend and backend systems.
• Design, develop, and maintain secure, scalable, and efficient backend services and APIs.
• Build responsive, modern user interfaces using React, Vue.js, Tailwind CSS, and related frontend technologies.
• Implement clean, reusable, and maintainable full-stack code, with proficiency in PHP and frameworks such as Laravel or Joomla.
• Develop and maintain robust data storage solutions, ensuring efficient retrieval, processing, and management of large datasets.
• Enhance data processing pipelines and integrate internal and external data sources to support analytics and platform features.
• Integrate third-party vendor and customer systems to extend platform capabilities and improve interoperability.
• Participate in code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and help improve engineering practices and development workflows.
• Stay current with emerging technologies, tools, and best practices to enhance performance, security, and user experience across the stack.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of full-stack software development experience, with strong emphasis on frontend technologies.
• Proficiency with modern frontend frameworks and tools (React, Vue.js, Tailwind CSS and related ecosystems).
• Solid knowledge of PHP; experience with frameworks such as Laravel (or similar) is a plus.
• Demonstrated understanding of modern software development methodologies and best practices.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team.
• Ability to multi-task and effectively prioritize.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.

Ogilvy Africa is the largest network agency on the continent catering to 40 countries with a team of ~900 people across Central, East and West Africa. Headquartered in Nairobi - Kenya, Ogilvy Africa manages a portfolio of over 100 brands for clients such as AB InBev, Airtel, Africa CDC, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Distell, Equity Bank, Exxon Mobil, Kenya Airways, Mondelez, NCBA, Nestle, Philips, PWC, SAB Miller, Sanlam, Total, UNICEF, Unilever, and WWF amongst others. Ogilvy has a distinctive positioning and proposition that is key for current times, when clients desire a partner to help them realize their growth ambitions or to get back to growth. Simply put our ambition is to be, “The Best Platform and Partner for Growth on the Planet.” This proposition is anchored on true shared value, what our world needs now, creating human(societal) value; employee value and commercial value. This proposition cuts across our key mega-businesses ABC (Advertising, Branding and Content), Experience (including CRM and e-commerce), PR & Influence and Media (focussed on performance marketing). In addition, we’ve created proprietary marketing products in areas such as real-time marketing, social intelligence, performance marketing, e-commerce enablement and content hubs. Our unique operating model, One Ogilvy, allows clients and brands to cut the complexity of agency structures and create seamless omni-channel experiences for their consumers, across touchpoints. Fuelled by the holy trinity of content, data, and technology; Ogilvy Africa strives to be the best-practice agency model, for Developing & Emerging markets. In our 20+ years in Africa, we have won the highest number of regional and global awards for the region including Cannes Lions, Clio awards, Dubai Lynx Festival, SABRE Awards (Global and Africa), WARC Effectiveness; to name a few. Ogilvy is a leading global network of WPP. Launched by David Ogilvy over 70 years ago, it is referred-to as the Agency of Giants, by several industry experts. 2021 WARC rankings named Ogilvy, the #1 creative network in the world.

• People need regular OS upgrades: Even the best OS will be obsolete tomorrow unless it's constantly upgraded. Same is true for people.
• We need more cows than milk men: We are a culture of practitioners, not managers. We contribute before we comment.
• Creative about creativity: Creativity is, and will always be, our differentiator. Creativity now includes holy trinity of Data - Content - Tech.
• Diversity is a competitive advantage: New profiles, new skills, new styles of leadership make us a stronger company.
• Collaborative advantage > Competitive advantage: Find partners who are on top of their game at the skillset we need. It’s the only way to scale at the speed without pretending to have all the answers.
• Team > Individual: You get a lot more done when everyone stops worrying about who gets credit at the end. Teams Succeed, individuals fail.
• Fail often, fail fast: We see entrepreneurs in all our people and encourage a culture of pilots. Test, succeed and scale; or fail-fast learn, learn from the failure, and start something new.