Description
As a Front-End Developer, you will be responsible for the technical design and implementation of the FNZ products. Our Front-End Developers contribute to our continuous improvement by bringing fresh ideas and aiming to adopt state-of-the-art technologies. We seek talents in responsive, accessible, and flexible web applications based on React, Vanilla JS, CSS, and HTML.
You will work in a self-organized Delivery Team that takes care of developing applications from the initial design phase to the final release. You will interact with people in our different offices around the world and with different expertise. We strongly believe in teamwork and your team is responsible for the quality of the product it delivers.
Specific Role Responsibilities
1. Work closely with a Solution Architect and other Developers and Testers, to design and implement new functionality for our customers
2. Build the highly intuitive user interface and interactive financial tools required by financial advisers and investors
3. Architecture, design, and implementation of customer-facing front-end
4. Develop unit tests to ensure required quality gateways are met
5. Strict adherence to agreed standards and SDLC processes
6. Participate in demos of the product to internal stakeholders and to clients
7. Perform code reviews for other Developers
8. Produce development estimates which contribute to overall delivery estimates
9. Support your Delivery Manager in the technical planning of delivery projects as required
10. Delivery of agreed quality outputs within agreed timeframes
11. Investigate, diagnose and fix support issues, and working closely with Clients to ensure successful resolution
12. Work with the Analyst Testers to ensure they have an understanding of solutions and testing requirements
13. Actively communicating the status of assigned items of work to the Delivery Team
14. Actively identifying and promoting opportunities for application efficiency improvements or performance improvements
15. Work effectively and continue improving business knowledge and programming skills
16. Be an active member of the development community within FNZ, contributing to team sessions and sharing best practice and lessons learnt
17. Help mentor more junior members of the development team
18. Support process improvement initiatives and identify new process improvements
19. Maintain high standards regarding written and verbal communication to ensure that information is clearly and concisely documented and appropriately disseminated.
Essential requirements
20. Minimum 2 years professional experience utilising React
21. Good proficiency with JavaScript, HTML and CSS
22. Significant knowledge of React
23. Experience with JavaScript testing frameworks
24. Experience with implementing accessible and responsive web applications
25. Knowledge of fundamentals like object-oriented programming, design patterns, and algorithms
26. Experience with Medium to Large-scale web applications, conceptual design, and implementation of modern software architectures
27. Experience with continuous integration tools such as GIT, Bitbucket or equivalent tools
28. Knowledge and awareness of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
29. Experience of working with different development methodologies e.g. Kanban, Scrum
30. Confident, and able to take initiative in a client and delivery focused environment
31. Excellent organisational, administration and time management skills
32. Good team communication skills, confident in dealing with internal and external clients
33. Highly developed written and oral communication skills
34. Superior analytical thinking and problem solving skills.
Non-essential experience
35. Experience of working within the Financial Services sector
36. A degree in Computer Science or a comparable title
37. Knowledge of TypeScript.