Front End Developer

Talan; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job description

Company Description

For more than 20 years, 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 counts 250 employees on several sites, the main being: London, Edinburgh, Chester, and 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 including 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 of 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.
• Share knowledge with more junior members of the team.
• Contribute to wiki.

Qualifications

• At least 4 years of Angular/AngularJS (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).
• And you really understand Javascript fundamentals.
• 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.

Competencies:

• Problem solver
• Good UX skills
• Proactive
• Team player
• Curious
• Resilient
• A mind for simplification.