Specialist Front End Developer (Angular)

Absa Group; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading bank in Cape Town is seeking a Front End Developer to enhance user experiences on its innovative online platform. The role involves collaborating with various teams to deliver high-quality solutions, utilizing advanced coding practices and ensuring the platform's responsiveness and scalability. This position offers the opportunity to be part of a dynamic team pushing technological boundaries while driving the growth of business through secure and efficient application development.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years relevant software development experience.
• Strong experience in Angular and understanding of JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Proficient in integrating with RESTful APIs and experience with .NET is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product owners and designers to create user-friendly interfaces.
• Evaluate business requirements and develop well-organized code for scalable applications.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and automate tasks through scripting.

Skills

Angular

JavaScript

TypeScript

HTML

CSS

Debugging

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

B-Degree in Computer Science or Diploma in Software Engineering

Tools

Jest

Cypress

Azure DevOps

Job description

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

The CIB Technology, Absa Access Core Frameworks Feature team is looking for a Front End Developer, based in Cape Town to apply critical thinking & problem solving skills to contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle & quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.

Job Description

Absa Access is a Pan-African, single sign-on platform that gives clients standardised, secure, and near real-time access to their business portfolios and the banking services. This enables them to make informed decisions to drive the growth of their businesses, managing their finances with the speed and intelligence that the platform provides.

You will work on the award winning Absa Access Online platform, comprising of a core framework that offers services and an extensible application environment. The platform is underpinned primarily by .Net Core micro-services, a message bus and open source technologies, deployed via Kubernetes, into a cloud-hosted environment.

Key critical skills and experience required:

• Relevant B-Degree in Computer Science or Diploma in Software Engineering preferred but not essential if minimum requirements of experience and practical application are evident
• Min 5 years relevant software development experience
• Strong experience in Angular
• Excellent understanding of specific coding / scripting languages eg. JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML and CSS
• Practical experience with appropriate unit testing and e2e framework(s) eg. Jest and Cypress
• Affinity for debugging and problem-solving
• Proficient in integrating with RESTful APIs securely and efficiently (.NET experience is advantageous)
• Solid understanding of Object Oriented Design and ability to properly apply general design patterns and paradigms
• Familiar with the Functional Programming paradigm (advantageous)
• Familiar with web components and native browser APIs (advantageous)

Key Accountabilities:

• A team player is required to form part of a small development team, but collaborating with other small teams who have similar responsibilities, forming part of the greater Absa Access Core Frameworks team
• Work closely with product owners, UI/UX designers, backend engineers and testers to create user-friendly experiences
• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment to solve technical problems (Front End, Back End OR Middleware) with high quality solutions
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle
• Evaluate analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development & provide recommendations to enable the operational feasibility of solutions
• Quickly produce well-organised, optimised, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
• Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
• Support the development of CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps / similar tools and deploying to multi-site Kubernetes environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)
• Use & configure modern observability techniques leveraging e.g. Analytics
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Node
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services
• Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture & Infrastructure guidelines
• Provide input into project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.
• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimisation and maintenance on applications
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices and continuously evolve existing knowledge & skill in preparation for cross domain and other experiences.
• Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised