Lead Front End Developer
Lead Front End Developer
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Summary:
We are looking for an experienced frontend web developer to join our growing engineering organization (headquartered in Reigate 300 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 brandnew applications.
As a frontend web development lead you will be working across multiple flexible agile squads delivering value on multiple greenfield workstreams in the delivery family. 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.
At WTW we believe difference makes us stronger. We want our workforce to reflect the different and varied markets we operate in and to build a culture of inclusivity that makes colleagues feel welcome valued and empowered to bring their whole selves to work every are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive work environment throughout our organisation. We embrace all types of diversity.
The Role:
- Bring expertise and best practice having worked on professional web applications.
- Work with the Product Manager and/or Product Owner to define refine and deliver the product backlog.
- Design SaaS software solutions meeting functional and nonfunctional requirements.
- Coordinate web application design and implementation across multiple streams to ensure consistency of approach.
- Participate in the UX guild and the development teams on best practice and approach.
- Implement product code following best practices for maintainability testability and performance.
- Implement testrelated 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 standups retrospectives) striving to continuously improve the team velocity its processes and engineering practices.
- Operate to a high standard and support/mentor other UI developers so theyre delivering at this level
- Address UI governance requirements that cover areas of security accessibility etc
Qualifications
The Requirements:
- The technology stack is primarily Angular C# and Azure along with other suitable technologies guided by our internal tech radar. We are looking for web developers with particularly strong frontend skills to complement our existing teams hence candidates will need to demonstrate:
- Proficiency in the design and development of responsive singlepage/progressive web applications using JavaScript/TypeScript/HTML/CSS (Angular React Vue Bootstrap). Strong emphasis on Angular as the adopted frontend technology
- Strong appreciation of UX principles ability to iterate commercialquality GUI implementations working from wireframes/mockups and other assets produced by UX designers.
- Experience developing test frameworks/test cases for web UIs and RESTful services (e.g. using Selenium and SpecFlow).
- Experience with the Agile/Scrum development lifecycle in a commercial/production environment. Experience with software engineering best practices: objectoriented design patterns SOLID principles.
- Experience with software development ecosystem (IDEs version control test automation/CI etc..
- Experience with CI/CD deployment processes with a particular focus on developing and support YAMLbased deployments
- Strong team player with an adaptable mindset eager to learn and champion modern approaches and technologies where appropriate
Other highly desirable but not essential skills are:
- Ability to architect highperformance and scalable web application and supporting infrastructures.
- Ability to coordinate daytoday development and bug fixing activities.
- Experience in guiding teams in UX strategy implementations and reviews.
- Experience using VS Code Azure DevOps and Git.
- Experience with Azure Experience with Cypress and other unit testing tools.
- General knowledge of the Insurance Industry.
- Degreeeducated with Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or relevant discipline.
At WTW we trust you to know your work and the people tools and environment you need to be successful. The majority of our colleagues work in a hybrid style with a mix of remote inperson and inoffice interactions dependent on the needs of the team role and clients. Our flexibility is rooted in trust and hybrid is not a onesizefitsall solution.
Equal Opportunity Employer
At WTW we believe difference makes us stronger. We want our workforce to reflect the different and varied markets we operate in and to build a culture of inclusivity that makes colleagues feel welcome valued and empowered to bring their whole selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive work environment throughout our organisation. We embrace all types of diversity.
At WTW we trust you to know your work and the people tools and environment you need to be successful. The majority of our colleagues work in a hybrid style with a mix of remote inperson and inoffice interactions dependent on the needs of the team role and clients. Our flexibility is rooted in trust and hybrid is not a onesizefitsall solution.
TD2024103R ICT Technology
Employment Type
Full-Time
