Senior Front End Developer

As a Senior Front-End Developer on the NEXTGEN programme, you will be responsible for building high-quality web and mobile web application experiences on the Backbase EBP platform for Bank's retail and business banking customers. You will work closely with the UI/UX Designer, Business Analyst, Back-End Developers, and QA Engineers within an agile delivery squad, translating customer journey designs into production-ready code that seamlessly integrates with Bank's systems.

Your work will directly serve Bank's digital banking customers - the NEXTGEN app is expected to serve hundreds of thousands of active users. Quality, accessibility, security, and performance are non-negotiable standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop high-quality Single Page Application (SPA) web components using the Angular framework, integrated with the Backbase EBP platform

• Build and extend web-based customer journeys - including retail banking, business banking, and digital onboarding flows - within the Backbase EBP Web-App product suite

• Collaborate with the UI/UX Designer to implement high-fidelity designs and validate that developed user stories comply with design specifications

• Work with the Business Analyst and Product Owner to analyse requirements and ensure web application software meets functional and non-functional quality standards

• Write clean, documented, maintainable, and production-ready code; enforce coding standards and conduct peer code reviews

• Ensure all solutions are tested, accessible (WCAG standards), extensible, secure, and performant

• Adhere to Backbase SDLC and CI/CD quality and security framework; maintain and improve project pipelines

• Identify and document bugs in the Backbase EBP product suite; liaise with Backbase R&D on product improvements

• Participate fully in Agile ceremonies - sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and release readiness reviews

• Provide guidance, mentoring, and code review to more junior Front-End Engineers on the team

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of front-end web application development experience in a similar senior role

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)

• Deep knowledge and hands-on experience with the Angular framework and Single Page Application architecture

• In-depth knowledge of NPM, Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS (SASS)

• Solid understanding of web application architecture: HTTP spec, JWT tokens, CORS, XSS, CSP

• Experience with Bootstrap and modern responsive front-end tooling

• Strong CI/CD and automated testing knowledge; ability to maintain and fix build and test pipelines

• Comfortable in a client-facing, consultancy environment

• Excellent written and spoken English