Senior Frontend Developer

Our client is looking for a Senior Frontend Developers to help build their next generation of

applications. As a key member of their product feature teams, you will work alongside the

product owner, business analysts, testers, developers and designers in order to deliver highly

customer focused applications. They are looking for you to help them build a strong culture of

automated testing, progressive application architecture, continuous integration, dev-ops and

user experience.

Responsibilities

People development through mentoring

Involved in technical analysis and design new features

Write elegant robust production code

Write unit, integration and acceptance tests for components

Improve and optimize the performance of existing systems

Help troubleshoot and debug root-cause errors

Deliver features timeously

Requirements

As you will be working in multi-technology environment, ability to demonstrate

aptitude in learning and self-skilling in different technologies is desired.

5+ years' practical software development experience

3+ years' experience using the following (or similar) client and server tech:

Frontend tech (client)

• React (or similar modern JavaScript framework) (*latest preferred)
• WebPack
• ES6+, HTML5, CSS3

Backend tech (server + API)

• Node, Express, Typescript
• Go

Development tooling

• Git
• Linux
• Docker
• Kubernetes

Active development practices

• Client/Server application development
• Single Page Applications (SPA)
• Unit and Integration testing
• Microservices architecture
• RESTful API's
• Continuous Integration (CI)

Desired Key Attributes

Experience working on digital (web) projects focussed on delivering modern user

experiences across browsers and devices

Proficiency in more than one relevant programming language - e.g. Go, Scala, Java,

JavaScript, Python

2 or more years' experience working within a microservices environment across

multiple teams

Experience working in architectures that make use of container orchestration (e.g.

Kubernetes)

Financial services experience

Key Attributes

Good interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types and deal with

conflict in an effective way

Ability to work individually and with teams within an Agile context

Experience in influencing best practices within teams

Computer Science Degree preferred

Degree in computer science, computer engineering, information systems or related

technical discipline