About the Client/Company:

A platform that enables everyday people to invest in emerging themes, sectors and asset classes in an effortless way. By supporting our customers at every stage of their investing journey, we’re working to create a new generation of well-equipped investors to bring about positive social change. You will be working hand in hand with the best builders and makers in the industry on the cross-section of fintech and blockchain. We build on a global scale, by empowering novel and breathtaking products. Focus and excellence are a must.

Our Client is Looking for:

Senior Front-End Software Engineer who is passionate about their work, eager to learn and grow, and who is committed to delivering exceptional results. If you are a team player, with a positive attitude and a desire to make a difference, then we want to hear from you!

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Help create an inspiring team environment with an open communication culture
• Take accountability for team targets
• Assist to hire junior and mid-level developers
• Encourage creativity and intelligent risk-taking
• Develop new user-facing features
• Build clean, semantic and maintainable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to the back-end
• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems. Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.
• Analyze system requirements and prioritize tasks
• Develop technical specifications and architecture
• Test and debug various Front-End applications
• Review and refactor code
• Deploy fully functional applications
• Upgrade existing programs
• Support junior developers’ work
• Document development and operational procedures

This Role Requires:

General

• Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
• Proficient understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing frameworks, such as LESS and SASS.
• Proficient understanding of utility-based CSS frameworks, such as TailwindCSS
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, ES6 including DOM manipulation.
• Good understanding of modern frameworks - ReactJS, KnockoutJS, AngularJS
• Proficient understanding of version control tools. (Git, Mercurial, SVN)
• Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring the application will adhere to them
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Experience integrating with RESTful APIs
• Experience working with common front-end tools such as Babel, Webpack and NPM

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years’ experience as a Front-End Software Developer
• Prior experience in a technical position
• College or University degree in Computer Science, a related discipline or proven experience in software development

Core Competency Requirements

• Proficient with React development
• Experience with source control management systems and continuous integration/deployment environments. GIT, Azure Pipelines.
• Experience with automated testing
• Experience with agile and scrum development methodologies.
• Experience with debugging, performance profiling and optimisation
• Strong initiative to find ways to improve solutions, systems, and processes
• Forensic attention to detail

Preferred Competency Requirements

• Experience in various frontend architecture patterns
• Experience in implementing service workers
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Experience building PWA (Progressive web applications)
• Knowledge of isomorphic React