Front End Developer

Talan Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A consulting firm is seeking a front-end developer for their Issuemaster real-time web application in Greater London. The ideal candidate will have at least 4 years of experience with Angular, 3 years with Typescript, and expertise in real-time web application development. Responsibilities include developing business functionalities, ensuring code quality, and contributor to project design. Candidates should possess strong analytical skills and good communication abilities, and be comfortable in an Agile environment.

Qualifications

• At least 4 years of experience with Angular/AngularJS.
• 3+ years of Typescript experience.
• Significant experience developing real-time web applications.
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to reengineering core components.
• Develop business functionalities and ensure test coverage.
• Document and maintain work in Jira.
• Provide technical analysis and support.
• Share knowledge with junior team members.

Skills

Angular

Typescript

RxJs

Websockets

Ag-grid

Webpack

npm

Excellent core programming skills

Education

Degree in Engineering, Sciences, or Economics

Tools

Jira

Job description

For more than 20years, Talan has been advising companies and administrations, supporting them and implementing their transformation projects in the UK and abroad. With a presence on four continents and a headcount of 6000 consultants, our ambition is to reach the billion turnover by the end of 2024.

In the UK, Talan count 250 employees on several site, the main being: London, Edinburgh and Chester, Leeds.

Job Description

We are looking for a front-end developer to work on Issuemaster real-time web application. The successful candidate will work on key and large epics in our book of work incl. new screens, core & shared functionalities and upgrade of the existing.

This is an opportunity for a senior developer with the right skillset and mindset to take part in our major effort to rewrite this important FO application and be part in the Primary business evolution including integration to new venues, automation of core processes and much wanted user experience improvements; all to drive more business safely.

You must have a successful experience developing real-time web front ends using both REST and websockets APIs. We are particularly looking for developers with an excellent knowledge and understanding of the software engineering fundamentals as well as strong solution design skills promoting simplicity, stability, performance and scalability. Experience as a senior developer on an eTrading or Front Office trading application will be a strong plus.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the reengineering of the core components.
• Develop key business functionalities.
• Ensure test coverage and code is written in good Typescript.
• Development and delivery (time & quality) of key stories and epics.
• Build knowledge of the application and provide L3 support (on rota).
• Become SME of primary business workflows, requirements and constraints.
• Understand roadmap and contribute to its successful delivery.
• Review design and implementation of the existing for continuous improvements.
• Proactively identify issues and propose solutions.
• Document and maintain book of work in Jira.
• Participate and contribute to requirement and design meetings for new functionality.
• Provide technical analysis when needed and formalise/document to help other developers.
• Help improve DevOps capabilities to simplify and automate build.
• Participate and contribute to requirement and design meetings for new functionality.
• Share knowledge with more junior members of the team.
• Contribute to wiki.

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Qualifications

• At least 4 years of Angular/AnguarJs.(with experience of Angular 1 and Angular >= 7).
• At least 3 years of Typescript (you should be able to write a front end without React/Angular or similar).
• Commercial experience of RxJs, websocket,ag-grid.
• Significant commercial experience of real-time web applications development with complex state management.
• Good knowledge of Webpack and npm.
• Excellent core programming skills.
• Very good analytical skills: you are able to understand, formalise and explain complex problems.
• Excellent knowledge of programming best practices and design patterns particularly handling concurrency.
• Strong interest in continuous improvement and all aspects of software development and delivery.
• Comfortable working in an Agile environment; keeping jira tasks up to date and planning work to fit weekly sprints.
• Good communication skills, both orally and in writing. Comfortable interacting with front office users.
• Confident numeracy and solid academic background in engineering, sciences or economics.