Location: Newcastle

Working Pattern: Hybrid

Contract Type: Permanent

Role Description

As a Front-End Developer, you will be responsible for the technical design and implementation of the FNZ products. Our Front-End Developers contribute to our continuous improvement by bringing fresh ideas and aiming to adopt state-of-the-art technologies. We seek talents in responsive, accessible, and flexible web applications based on React, Vanilla JS, CSS, and HTML.

You will work in a self-organized Delivery Team that takes care of developing applications from the initial design phase to the final release. You will interact with people in our different offices around the world and with different expertise. We strongly believe in teamwork and your team is responsible for the quality of the product it delivers.

Specific Role Responsibilities

·        Work closely with a Solution Architect and other Developers and Testers, to design and implement new functionality for our customers

·        Build the highly intuitive user interface and interactive financial tools required by financial advisers and investors

·        Architecture, design, and implementation of customer-facing front-end

·        Assist in the preparation and documentation of software requirements and specifications

·        Develop unit tests to ensure required quality gateways are met

·        Execute best practices for software development

·        Take an active role in understanding the business domain and contributing to requirements gathering as required

·        Strict adherence to agreed standards and SDLC processes

·        Participate in demos of the product to internal stakeholders and to clients

·        Perform code reviews for other Developers

·        Produce development estimates which contribute to overall delivery estimates

·        Support your Delivery Manager in the technical planning of delivery projects

·        Delivery of agreed quality outputs within agreed timeframes

·        Investigate, diagnose and fix support issues, and working closely with Clients to ensure successful resolution

·        Work with the Analyst Testers to ensure they have an understanding of solutions and testing requirements

·        Actively communicating the status of assigned items of work to the Delivery Team

·        Actively identifying and promoting opportunities for application efficiency improvements or performance improvements

·        Work effectively and continue improving business knowledge and programming skills

·        Be an active member of the development community within FNZ, contributing to team sessions and sharing best practice and lessons learnt

·        Help mentor more junior members of the development team

·        Support process improvement initiatives and identify new process improvements

·        Maintain high standards regarding written and verbal communication to ensure that information is clearly and concisely documented and appropriately disseminated.

Essential requirements

·        Minimum 2 years professional experience utilising React

·        A degree in Computer Science or a comparable title

·        Good proficiency with JavaScript, HTML and CSS

·        Knowledge of React and ideally TypeScript

·        Experience with JavaScript testing frameworks

·        Experience with implementing accessible and responsive web applications

·        Knowledge of fundamentals like object-oriented programming, design patterns, and algorithms

·        Experience with Medium to large-scale web applications, conceptual design, and implementation of modern software architectures

·        Experience with continuous integration tools such as GIT, Bitbucket or equivalent tools

·        Knowledge and awareness of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

·        Experience of working with different development methodologies e.g. Kanban, Scrum

·        Confident, and able to take initiative given client and delivery focused environment

·        Excellent organisational, administration and time management skills

·        Good team communication skills, confident in dealing with internal and external clients

·        Highly developed written and oral communication skills

·        Superior analytical thinking and problem solving.

Non-essential experience

·        Experience of working within the Financial Services sector

Application Deadline:
Applications close on 14/02/2025. However, we encourage early applications, as we may begin reviewing candidates and scheduling interviews before the deadline. Don’t miss the opportunity to be considered for this exciting role.

We look forward to hearing from you!

About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back. 

We created wealth’s growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution. 

We partner with over 650 financial institutions and 12,000 wealth managers, with US$1.5 trillion in assets under administration (AUA).

Together with our customers, we help over 20 million people from all wealth segments to invest in their future.