Software Engineer (Frontend)
Who we're looking for
We are looking for an experienced JavaScript developer with expertise in both front-end and familiar with back-end (nodejs) technologies to join our APAC Schroders Investment and Digital development team. You'll work with like-minded technologists globally with a variety of skill sets, focused on building best-of-breed interactive investor and client facing digital experiences using modern, appropriate technologies. We're after an adaptable engineer to work within a team that delivers software that's fast, reliable, and has a tangible impact on our business.
The team
APAC Investment and Digital Technology focuses on delivery of outcomes that require close collaboration with users, deep expertise in core investment capabilities and best-of-breed digital experiences. We’re currently working on delivering client-facing interactive investment experiences, and enhanced workflows to support the investment process of our Asian investment desks. We aim to maintain a great engineering culture. Contributing to this culture will involve following good software craftmanship, TDD and writing clean code. Our systems must be well architected, designed for testability and extensibility. To achieve this we implement mentoring and coaching through regular code reviews and pair programming. You'll work with a team who are passionate about software in a financial context and evolving our investment and digital platforms. They're also keen on making positive technology changes at Schroders, ensuring that we always stay ahead of the curve.
About Schroders
We're a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future. We have around 5,500 people on six continents, and we've been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn't change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.
What you'll do
- Develop web applications using front-end technologies including Next.js, React.JS, HTML5, CSS3 and Responsive Design
- Lead all aspects of software delivery in terms of design, development, testing and implementation.
- Refine the existing platform and products in response to business needs
- Work with business users to co-create maintainable JavaScript code
- Coach and develop more junior team members, ensuring that best practices and methodologies are followed.
- Development of backend-for-frontend services and APIs using Node.js.
The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need
- Minimum 3 years of software development experience using front-end technologies, including React.JS, HTML5, CSS3 and Responsive Design, along with JavaScript frameworks and libraries.
- Experience in building customer facing interactive web experiences; collaborating with design, product, and other partners.
- Experience in software design principles and patterns and designing code
- Experience working in a modern software engineering environment following Agile principles, DevSecOps methodologies, test automation, CI/CD workflows, and tools including Git and Github.
The knowledge, experience and qualifications that will help
- An understanding of the investment management industry
- Experience using cloud technologies (e.g. Azure, AWS).
- Experience building software solutions in the Financial Services domain
- Experience developing backend-for-frontend APIs using Node.js.
What you'll be like
- Great at working with other people, communicate well and value teamwork and diversity.
- Positive and optimistic attitude
- Ability to own a piece of work from start to finish
- Passionate technologist who follows the latest trends, technology, and engineering approaches
- Enjoys solving problems and focussed on understanding the underlying business requirements before producing concrete deliverables
- Ability to work under pressure
We're looking for the best, whoever they are
Schroders is an equal opportunities employer. You're welcome here whatever your socio-economic background, race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious belief, age or disability.
*Salary expectations of candidates will be considered when assessing suitable candidates. Due to the high volume of applicants, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Job Reference : SIN02112
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