Job Description

This is an awesome career opportunity for someone who wants to further excel in their craft as a programmer. Career growth, promotions and recognitions are up for grabs for dedicated, talented, and reliable individuals.

Company Profile:

Our client is a UK-based company and a leading financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants. They support the world’s leading investment banks, investment managers, fintech and capital market service providers. With a global reach with offices in London, New York, Barcelona, and Montreal, and has a proven track record of delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology.

Our client is currently establishing their local presence in the Philippines and seeking for a talented Front-end Developer who is organised, methodical, motivated, detail-oriented, and can envisage building a long-term career within the company.

This is the perfect career move for someone who is looking for career growth and opportunity to participate in the transformation and expansion of the company as they continuously grow in the market. 

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain and enhance the front-end functionality of our financial trading applications
• Identify and fix bugs and performance issues in the front-end codebase
• Develop and implement new features and enhancements to improve the user experience of the application
• Use the latest technology to create elegant and robust solutions
• Contribute to building and releasing quality software on time
• Use your knowledge to build great-looking, event-driven and highly interactive interfaces
• Participate in a test-driven, agile environment
• Collaborate with server-side developers, user-experience designers and business analysts to understand requirements and provide technical solutions
• Keep up to date with the developments in UI and software development technology and quickly adapt to them to achieve better results

Advantageous skills:

• At least 2-3 years of experience as a Frontend Developer
• Solid client-side development experience, gained while building single-page web applications.
• Excellent JavaScript knowledge and experience: you understand prototypical inheritance, the event loop, function scope and closures.
• Proficiency in user-interface technologies in addition to JavaScript, eg HTML5 and CSS3; and in React.js
• Practical knowledge of web tooling such as Webpack, NPM, Yarn, Vite, ESlint
• Understanding of ES6 and newer ES specifications
• Proficient with Chrome developer tools, including knowing how to diagnose and fix performance issues
• Experience with software maintenance, bug fixing, and enhancements
• Experience with Agile development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
• Experience working with a real-time GUI
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong desire to raise the bar for your team technically
• Tenacious, curious, and collaborative in all aspects of your work
• Quick learner