Senior Front-End Web Developer

Posted 8 April by WTW

Competitive salary

Reigate , Surrey

Permanent, full-time

We are looking for an experienced front-end web developer to join our growing business unit (headquartered in Reigate, ~200 engineers) developing a wide range of market leading InsurTech solutions. You will join us at an exciting time as we focus increasingly on cloud/SaaS solutions, upgrading existing products to new technologies and modern UX, as well as developing brand-new applications.

As a front-end web development, you will be working with agile teams delivering value on the flagship Radar Live product. You will play a key role in designing and creating new features and enhancing existing code, whilst ensuring the foundational components continue to meet high levels of reliability, maintainability, usability, and performance.

The Role:

Bring expertise and best practice having worked on professional web applications.
Work with the Product Owner to define, refine and deliver the product backlog.
Design SaaS software solutions meeting functional and non-functional requirements.
Coordinate web application design and implementation across multiple streams to ensure consistency of approach.
Interface between the UX guild and the development teams on best practice and approach.
Implement product code, following best practices for maintainability, testability, and performance.
Implement test-related code (unit tests, test frameworks and associated automated test cases).
Review and debug code to identify defects, performance bottlenecks or technical debt.
Participate in Agile/scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives), striving to continuously improve the team velocity, its processes and engineering practices.
Coach and mentor junior team members, fostering a collaborative and quality-focused engineering culture.

The Requirements:
The technology stack is primarily Angular, C#, and Azure. We are looking for web developers with particularly strong front-end skills to complement our existing teams, hence candidates will need to demonstrate:

Experience in the design and development of responsive single-page/progressive web applications using JavaScript/TypeScript/HTML/CSS (Angular, Bootstrap).
Strong appreciation of UX principles, ability to iterate commercial-quality GUI implementations working from wireframes/mockups and other assets produced by UX designers.
Experience developing test frameworks/test cases for web UI’s and RESTful services (e.g. using Cypress).
Experience with the Agile/Scrum development lifecycle in a commercial/production environment.
Experience with software engineering best practices: object-oriented, design patterns, SOLID principles.
Experience with software development ecosystem (IDE’s, version control, test automation/CI, etc.).

Other highly desirable, but not essential skills are:

Ability to architect high-performance and scalable web application and supporting infrastructures.
Experience in guiding teams in UX strategy, implementations, and reviews.
Experience using Visual Studio Team Services/Azure DevOps and Git.
Experience with XUnit, Moq and other unit testing tools.
General knowledge of the Insurance Industry.

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