Senior Front-End Developer

Role: Senior Front-End Software Engineer

Organisation: Financial Services

Salary: £75k-85k, 15% bonus, benefits on top. 

Location: Greater London

Working Policy: hybrid, 2 days on site.

WeDo have partnered with a Global FinTech looking for a Senior Front-End Software Engineer to compliment existing teams as they increase their focus on Cloud/Saas solutions. 

The team currently supports their flagship product which is instrumental to ongoing business. This product is a high volume, low latency, cloud based product, and is industry leading. You'll be working with Agile teams, and will play a vital role in the design and creation of new features and enhancing existing code. 

What're they looking for?

• Someone who is responsible for the functional and non-functional requirements of the product. Able to design and document Saas solutions.
• Ability to develop and implement unit tests. Frameworks and associated automated test cases.
• Ability to review and debug code to identify defects, performance bottlenecks or technical debt.
• Interfacing between the various teams / relevant stakeholders to refine best practices and approach.
• Proven experience working in a highly agile working environment - actively part of sprint planning meetings and daily stand-ups.
• Shows initiative in helping and mentoring junior team members, as well as taking the lead on a variety of the above activities.

What skillsets will you need?

• Extensive Angular experience.
• Proven track record in the designing and developing SPA's/PWA's using JavaScript/TypeScript/HTML/CSS.
• Experience in developing test frameworks or test cases (using Cypress, Selenium, Jasmine, for example).
• Exposure to the entire Software Development Lifecycle in a product/commercial environment.
• Mock API experience is a bonus.
• Championing software engineering best practices. Driving this within the wider team.
• Extensive experience with Software Development Tools: IDE’s, version control, test automation, continuous integration, defect and backlog management systems.

Interview Process?

• Stage 1 - 30 mins
• Stage 2 - Technical Test (3-4 hrs). Take home, give you 7 days ish to complete.
• Stage 3 - 1.5 hr technical interview based around your tech test.

 Benefits?

• 10% pension (can go up to 14%) - 8% employer contribution 2% employee contribution
• Private health and Life Assurance  
• Holiday allowance: 25 days standard + buy and sell holiday of 5 additional days  
• Enhanced Maternity + Paternity pay  
• Benefit flex scheme