Senior Front-End Web Developer - WTW : Job Details

We are looking for an experienced front-end web developer to join our growing business unit (headquartered in Reigate, ~200 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 brand-new applications.As a front-end web development, you will be working with agile teams delivering value on the flagship Radar Live product. 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.The Role: 

• Bring expertise and best practice having worked on professional web applications.
• Work with the Product Owner to define, refine and deliver the product backlog.
• Design SaaS software solutions meeting functional and non-functional requirements.
• Coordinate web application design and implementation across multiple streams to ensure consistency of approach.
• Interface between the UX guild and the development teams on best practice and approach.
• Implement product code, following best practices for maintainability, testability, and performance.
• Implement test-related 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, stand-ups, retrospectives), striving to continuously improve the team velocity, its processes and engineering practices.
• Coach and mentor junior team members, fostering a collaborative and quality-focused engineering culture. 

The Requirements: The technology stack is primarily Angular, C#, and Azure. We are looking for web developers with particularly strong front-end skills to complement our existing teams, hence candidates will need to demonstrate:

• Experience in the design and development of responsive single-page/progressive web applications using JavaScript/TypeScript/HTML/CSS (Angular, Bootstrap).
• Strong appreciation of UX principles, ability to iterate commercial-quality GUI implementations working from wireframes/mockups and other assets produced by UX designers.
• Experience developing test frameworks/test cases for web UI’s and RESTful services (e.g. using Cypress).
• Experience with the Agile/Scrum development lifecycle in a commercial/production environment.
• Experience with software engineering best practices: object-oriented, design patterns, SOLID principles.
• Experience with software development ecosystem (IDE’s, version control, test automation/CI, etc.).

Other highly desirable, but not essential skills are:

• Ability to architect high-performance and scalable web application and supporting infrastructures.
• Experience in guiding teams in UX strategy, implementations, and reviews.
• Experience using Visual Studio Team Services/Azure DevOps and Git.
• Experience with XUnit, Moq and other unit testing tools.
• General knowledge of the Insurance Industry.

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