Who are Akari?
Akari Software (https://akarisoftware.com) is the leading curriculum management solution provider in the APAC and EMEa regions. A Higher Education software company, specialising in the development of software to support Curriculum Design processes and Curriculum Mapping processes.
Our people are passionate about their work and their customers. The head office is based in Cork, Ireland with remote employees in multiple locations, including a team in Kuala Lumpur. With the growth of our customer base, we are seeking a Software Engineer to join our Kuala Lumpur team in helping us to grow our products and ensure successful delivery of services to our customers.
Akari supports and encourages a positive work-life balance for all employees and for that reason we work a 9 Day Fortnight, with teams having every second Friday as a personal day where possible.
Job Summary
We are looking for a skilled Frontend Software Engineer to work closely with our design team on translating design concepts and client requirements into fully interactive interfaces.
The successful candidate will have a proven experience in UI and UX development, frontend architecture and Web 3.0 standards. This role involves working closely with both client-facing and development teams to ensure correct requirements capturing as much as platform stability and scalability.
Responsibilities
As a Frontend Software Engineer your key duties include:
- Work closely with the UX designers to deliver a friendly customer user experience
- Deliver user journey driven UI's powering green field and existing projects
- Solve complex problems, whilst working within a team and individually
- Develop new user-facing features and build reusable code and libraries for future use
- Create simple, creative representations of the client applications
- Responsible for ensuring the quality of new interaction models, user task flows, and graphical user interface designs through usability testing and user research
Required Experience & Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Proven experience in Software project delivery
- Demonstrable knowledge of design patterns associated with UI development
- Experience on the full SDLC in an agile environment (including deployment CI/CD).
- Clearly demonstrates analytical ability and critical thinking skills
Required Experience & Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Proven experience in software project delivery.
- Demonstrable knowledge of design patterns associated with UI development.
- Experience in the full SDLC in an agile environment (including deployment CI/CD).
- Strong analytical ability and critical thinking skills.
Technical Expertise
Essentials
- 3–4 years’ experience as a web-based UI Developer (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript).
- Expertise with CSS preprocessors (SASS and/or LESS) and Bootstrap or Foundation.
- 2–3 years of SASS experience.
- Strong JavaScript framework experience with Vue, React, and/or Angular.
- Understanding of accessibility and experience in developing accessible applications.
- Previous experience with JS Frameworks (e.g., KnockoutJS, AngularJS, BackboneJS, ReactJS).
- Build tool experience (e.g., Webpack, Gulp, Grunt, npm).
Desirable
- Experience using automated testing tools such as Cypress or Selenium.
- Experience building web applications.
- Experience with Node.js and databases.
Additional Attributes
- Fluent in English, both written and spoken.
- Ability to present recent work/portfolio.
- Good communication skills.
- High level of autonomy.
- Willingness to work flexible hours, with time overlap with offshore teams required. This is a hybrid role: 3 days/week remotely and 2 days/week from the office in Kuala Lumpur city centre.
- Passionate about software development and eager to learn new technologies.
