React Developer

FNZ Group; North East; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the financial services sector is seeking a Front-End Developer. You will design and implement web applications using React, contributing to continuous improvement and working in a collaborative team environment. Candidates should possess significant knowledge of React and strong problem-solving skills.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years professional experience utilizing React.
• Significant knowledge of React and web application implementation.
• Experience in Financial Services sector preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement new functionalities for products.
• Develop user interface and interactive financial tools.
• Produce development estimates and support technical planning.

Skills

React

Responsive web applications

Problem Solving

Team Communication

Time Management

Education

Degree in Computer Science or comparable title

Tools

GIT

Bitbucket

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As a Front-End Developer, you will be responsible for the technical design and implementation of the FNZ products. Our Front-End Developers contribute to our continuous improvement by bringing fresh ideas and aiming to adopt state-of-the-art technologies. We seek talents in responsive, accessible, and flexible web applications based on React, Vanilla JS, CSS, and HTML.

You will work in a self-organized Delivery Team that takes care of developing applications from the initial design phase to the final release. You will interact with people in our different offices around the world and with different expertise. We strongly believe in teamwork and your team is responsible for the quality of the product it delivers.

Specific Role Responsibilities

Work closely with a Solution Architect and other Developers and Testers, to design and implement new functionality for our customers

Build the highly intuitive user interface and interactive financial tools required by financial advisers and investors

Architecture, design, and implementation of customer-facing front-end

Develop unit tests to ensure required quality gateways are met

Strict adherence to agreed standards and SDLC processes

Participate in demos of the product to internal stakeholders and to clients

Perform code reviews for other Developers

Produce development estimates which contribute to overall delivery estimates

Support your Delivery Manager in the technical planning of delivery projects as required

Delivery of agreed quality outputs within agreed timeframes

Investigate, diagnose and fix support issues, and working closely with Clients to ensure successful resolution

Work with the Analyst Testers to ensure they have an understanding of solutions and testing requirements

Actively communicating the status of assigned items of work to the Delivery Team

Actively identifying and promoting opportunities for application efficiency improvements or performance improvements

Work effectively and continue improving business knowledge and programming skills

Be an active member of the development community within FNZ, contributing to team sessions and sharing best practice and lessons learnt

Help mentor more junior members of the development team

Support process improvement initiatives and identify new process improvements

Maintain high standards regarding written and verbal communication to ensure that information is clearly and concisely documented and appropriately disseminated.

Minimum 2 years professional experience utilising React

Significant knowledge of React

Experience with implementing accessible and responsive web applications

Knowledge of fundamentals like object-oriented programming, design patterns, and algorithms

Experience with Medium to Large-scale web applications, conceptual design, and implementation of modern software architectures

Experience with continuous integration tools such as GIT, Bitbucket or equivalent tools

Knowledge and awareness of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Experience of working with different development methodologies e.g. Kanban, Scrum

Confident, and able to take initiative in a client and delivery focused environment

Excellent organisational, administration and time management skills

Good team communication skills, confident in dealing with internal and external clients

Highly developed written and oral communication skills

Superior analytical thinking and problem solving skills.

Experience of working within the Financial Services sector

A degree in Computer Science or a comparable title