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Certified Remote
PUBLISHED
Nov 2, 2025
Join our team at Kijona to kickstart your career as a junior developer focusing on frontend applications using TypeScript. You'll build responsive user interfaces with type-safe code, learning essential concepts like interfaces and components. Ideal for beginners eager to apply foundational TypeScript skills in real-world projects, gaining hands-on experience with modern frameworks while receiving guidance from senior developers.
As a Junior TypeScript Developer - Frontend at Kijona, you'll dive into the exciting world of building interactive web applications using TypeScript, a statically typed superset of JavaScript that enhances code reliability and maintainability. This role is perfect for entry-level developers who have just graduated or have minimal experience and are passionate about frontend development. You'll work on creating user-friendly interfaces for our innovative platforms, ensuring they are both visually appealing and functionally robust.
Your journey will begin with foundational TypeScript concepts, such as understanding types, interfaces, and unions, which help prevent common runtime errors by catching issues at compile time. You'll learn how to leverage generics to create reusable components that adapt to different data types, promoting clean and scalable code. For instance, in building a component library, you'll use generics to handle various props without duplicating code, fostering a deeper appreciation for TypeScript's type system.
Mentorship is at the core of this position. Paired with experienced developers, you'll receive weekly code reviews and pair programming sessions focused on TypeScript best practices. This includes exploring decorators for enhancing class functionality, like logging or validation in React components, and mastering modules for organizing code across large applications. You'll contribute to projects involving popular libraries such as React with TypeScript, where you'll define props interfaces to ensure type-safe rendering and state management.
The role emphasizes learning opportunities within the TypeScript ecosystem. You'll experiment with tools like ESLint and Prettier configured for TypeScript, enforcing consistent coding standards. Hands-on tasks will include integrating APIs with fetch or Axios, typing responses to maintain data integrity throughout the application. As you progress, you'll tackle challenges like optimizing performance in type-heavy applications and debugging type mismatches, building confidence in handling complex frontend scenarios.
Kijona values growth, so expect dedicated time for self-study on advanced topics like utility types and mapped types, which allow for sophisticated type transformations. You'll participate in internal workshops on TypeScript's evolution, including recent features like satisfies operator for better type assertions. Collaboration is key; you'll join daily stand-ups to discuss progress on features like dynamic forms with typed validation schemas using libraries such as Zod.
This position offers a supportive environment where mistakes are learning opportunities. By the end of your tenure, you'll have a solid portfolio of TypeScript-driven frontend work, ready to advance in your development career. We focus on real-world application of concepts like async/await with typed promises, ensuring you understand error handling in a type-safe manner. Join us to transform your foundational knowledge into professional expertise in TypeScript frontend development.
The employer recommends obtaining this certification to validate your skills and enhance your application.
Note: You can still apply for this position without the certification, but having it will make your profile stand out and may be required to move forward in the hiring process.