Senior Frontend Engineer

AJ Bell; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

AJ Bell, a leading UK investment platform, seeks a Senior Frontend Engineer to enhance their award-winning platform. You will join a team focused on continuous improvement, applying agile methodologies and designing high-quality products, while enjoying a collaborative work environment with competitive benefits.

Benefits

Starting holiday entitlement of 25 days

Pension schemes with up to 6% matched contributions

Discretionary bonus scheme

Annual share awards

Health Cash Plan

Private healthcare and dental plans

Onsite gym

Personal development programs

Recognition schemes and leadership events

Qualifications

• Expertise in SPAs with frameworks like Angular, React.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience in e-commerce or financial services is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Designing and delivering high-quality products.
• Applying agile methodologies in a high-performance engineering team.
• Collaborative pair programming with team members.

Skills

Expertise in building modular, reusable components

Experience with GitHub, BitBucket, or GitLab

Experience with UI frameworks

Knowledge of frontend styling paradigms

Familiarity with frontend tooling

Experience in writing unit tests

Interest in asynchronous frontend tools

Ability to write end-to-end tests

Understanding of Web APIs

Strong communication skills

Job description

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We're now recruiting a Senior Frontend Engineer to join our Investcentre team and help enhance our award-winning platform. You will join a team committed to continuous improvement and engineering excellence.

What does the job involve?

• Applying agile methodologies and a passion for continuous improvement in a high-performance engineering team
• Designing and delivering high-quality products with the team
• Pair programming with team members as part of our collaborative culture

Competence, knowledge, and skills

• Expertise in building modular, reusable components for SPAs with frameworks like Angular, React, Vue, Svelte, etc.
• Experience with version control tools such as GitHub, BitBucket, or GitLab
• Experience with UI frameworks like Bootstrap, Tailwind, Material, etc.
• Knowledge of frontend styling paradigms such as BEM, CSS modules, CSS-in-JS
• Familiarity with frontend tooling, particularly Node.js and npm
• Experience in writing unit tests
• Interest in asynchronous and event-based frontend tools like RxJS, Ngrx, Redux
• Ability to write end-to-end journey tests using tools like Cypress, Nightwatch, WebdriverIO, Protractor
• Understanding of Web APIs
• Experience resolving inconsistencies across browsers and platforms
• Knowledge of CI/CD practices
• Understanding of principles behind high-performance web pages
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• High motivation, drive, and enthusiasm
• Experience in e-commerce and/or financial services

About us:

AJ Bell is a leading UK investment platform provider, serving over 593,000 customers with assets exceeding £90.4 billion. Listed on the London Stock Exchange's Main Market since December 2018, and a FTSE 250 company, we are headquartered in Manchester with offices in London and Bristol. With over 1,450 employees, we are recognized as one of the UK's best workplaces.

We foster a friendly, team-oriented environment with pride in our work and guiding principles.

What we offer:

• Starting holiday entitlement of 25 days, increasing to 31 with service, plus holiday buy/sell options
• Pension schemes with up to 6% matched contributions
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Annual share awards
• Buy As You Earn scheme
• Health Cash Plan
• Private healthcare and dental plans
• Onsite gym
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Sick pay+ pledge
• Enhanced parental leave
• Travel loan schemes
• Charitable giving via salary sacrifice
• Social events and team activities
• Personal development programs and technical training
• Recognition schemes and leadership events
• Casual dress code and other benefits

Our hybrid working model requires a minimum of 50% office presence in Manchester, with an initial full-time office period for new hires to integrate and build relationships.