Insight Global is looking for a Senior UI designer to join one of the largest investment firms located in Birmingham for a 12-month contract. The chosen candidate will sit within the Global Banking and Markets side of the business largely focused on the agency loans division. The chosen candidate will be involved in the overall development and enhancement of their current digital loan’s platform used by the firm’s investment bankers and loan agents. As a UI designer with the Agency Loans division, you’ll play a critical role in working closely with the UX designers to design, build and optimize the frontend interfaces of this platform and be responsible for developing frontend user interfaces for a fully automated, mission critical digital business. In addition, you will be responsible for formulating design and implementation requirements in the system following coding best practices and utilizing design patterns concepts whilst working on projects through all stages in a version-controlled environment, including providing effort estimates and raising critical issues. Moreover, you will be working with users and stakeholders to procure requirements and communicate ideas clearly and concisely to non-technical users of their systems. You will be responsible for building and maintaining high quality production code as well as engaging in test-driven development by writing unit tests and automated regression tests.
Must haves:
* Senior experience working as a front-end software developer
* Knowledge of JavaScript and hands-on development experience building responsive and performant web applications using the ReactJS framework.
* Familiarity with HTML, CSS-in-JS (or SASS), NodeJS, NPM and TypeScript.
* Experience of using and developing RESTful web services.
* Experience of web testing frameworks (Jest, Enzyme, Cypress, RTL etc.).
* Experience working in a git-based CI/CD SDLC environment.
* Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance.
* Excellent stakeholder management skills
* Previous experience working in financial services
* Experience working in an agile environment
Plusses:
* Experience designing and developing solutions using Amazon Web Services
* Server-side development experience in one or more modern languages such as Python, Java, Go, and/or Rust would be preferred.