Front End Developer Placement

We employ 2,100 journalists, producers, engineers and sales staff. Our newsrooms publish thousands of stories a day across print, broadcast and digital.

About the internship:

Dar es Salaam Times is hiring a Front End Developer Placement for Immediately. Remote full stack internship on the Frontend team. You will take designs from Figma and turn them into working, responsive pages. You can work from home anywhere in Tanzania. We have no office requirement. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

What you'll do:

• Build reusable UI components and add them to the shared component library
• Keep a short daily log in Notion of what you worked on and where you got stuck
• Improve page load times by compressing images, lazy loading and trimming unused code
• Update content and plugins on the WordPress marketing site
• Fix layout bugs across Chrome, Safari and Firefox, and on small mobile screens
• Set up basic SEO tags, sitemaps and redirects when new pages go live

Basic qualifications:

• Based in Tanzania for the duration of the internship
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2027
• Able to commit 25 to 40 hours a week for at least 3 months
• Portfolio, GitHub or live project links showing at least two websites you built
• Willing to learn new tools quickly and ask questions when blocked
• Understanding of how APIs, JSON and HTTP status codes work

Preferred qualifications:

• Projects deployed on Vercel, Netlify or Render
• Experience with Next.js or TypeScript

What you get out of it:

• Writing frontend code that other people can read and maintain
• Strong interns get a full-time offer or a paid extension
• You will push code that goes live on a site with real traffic

Program dates: Immediately, 6 months.

Intern pay: TZS 510,000 - TZS 540,000 per month

Perks:

• Online learning budget
• Certificate of completion
• Letter of recommendation
• Possibility of a full-time offer
• Flexible hours

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Dar es Salaam Times Ltd.