Senior Frontend Engineer

Join us as a Senior Software Engineer in our CPO team driving innovation in our business-critical engineering projects at Shawbrook the forefront of fintech banking. 

We need an experienced engineer to take ownership of the front end and guide us on best practice high quality and innovative solutions. 

This role offers achance for a skilled engineer to deepen their domain expertise in banking and collaborate with a dynamic team of engineers using Agile methodologies to drive forwards our technical transformation at Shawbrook. 

Youll be an advocate for best in class engineering standards and maintain a strong focus on product delivery youll have the chance to make your mark right away as we undergo pivotal impactful work with truly diverse opportunities to support your development. 

Key Responsibilities

• Work as part of an Agile product team to further our product delivery objectives creating simple clean and well documented code. 

• Work with the QA team to help create automated tests to ensure the quality of the software. 

• Participate in backlog refinement sessions to understand business requirements and take responsibility for implementing the most appropriate solution. 

• Utilise engineering best practices and design principles bearing in mind non-functional requirements around performance and security. 

• Work with the support team to assist with deployments and monitoring of services in production. 

• Document details of system amendments / enhancements in both your code comments and our online documentation system 

• Be an advocate for best practice mentor and coach junior members of the team to support their development. 

Qualifications :

Qualifications 

• React JS & Next JS - You will use React JS to build out the front end presentation layers of our products. As well as an in-depth knowledge of typescript inside of these libraries. 

• Component Library You will be responsible for assisting and working with the front end guild to keep the core component library updated and relevant. 

• Front end testing-You will need experience testing front end systems using tools like Playwright React testing library or similar to ensure high quality code. 

• Cloud Experience (ideally Azure)-You will need a solid understanding of cloud fundamentals for the wider migration to the cloud as part of our technical transformation. 

• Microservices-You will need a good understanding of microservice architecture and how the front end communicates with our back end architecture. 

• Mentoring & coaching- As a senior engineer you will be an advocate for best practice and support our more junior engineers in their career development. 

Additional Information :

Your Wellbeing - We take your health and well-being very seriously by providing a range of benefits to give you and your family peace of mind. These include:

• Market leading family friendly policies such as access to our Maternity Adoption and Paternity policies from Day 1 of your employment
• Free access to Headspace a mindfulness & meditation digital health app
• Free access to Peppy digital health app that offers personalised support through fertility treatment becoming a parent or menopause
• EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) - Offering you support on a wide range of subjects including financial concerns mental wellbeing and more general queries around family work housing and health
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounts on gym membership
• Contributory pension scheme & death in service

Your Lifestyle - Its important you strike the right balance between your work and personal life. We provide benefits to support you when at work and when youre enjoying your leisure time.

• Minimum of 27 days holiday per year
• Option to buy or sell holiday days through our flexi-holiday scheme
• Discounts on gym membership nationwide
• Access to discounts on a range of high street and online brands
• Community support and charitable giving

Your Contribution - Were focused on rewarding those that go the extra mile in helping us achieve our goals.

• Participation in our annual discretionary bonus scheme designed to reward your contribution to our success
• Proudly Shawbrook recognition scheme focused on recognising our role models and thanking our colleagues for a job well done

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time