Senior Front-end UX Engineer

As a Senior Frontend UX Engineer, you are responsible for the technical design and implementation of FNZ products, shaping the user experience and interaction of our next-generation banking process automation tools. 

You will be contributing together with the team to our continuous improvement, bringing fresh ideas and adopting state-of-the-art technologies. We seek talents with a UX mindset, capable of shaping intuitive user interfaces and building responsive, accessible, and flexible web applications using React, Vanilla JS, CSS, and HTML. 

If you are a JavaScript ninja and love prototyping user experiences, join us to build the heart of our next-generation software development platform.

During development, you will also be working on activities such as:

• Knowledge sharing with other engineers

• Continuous collaboration with designers and the PM of your team

• Unit testing

• Manual and automated testing

• Presenting work to other teams and stakeholders

Specific Role Responsibilities

Are you the perfect fit?

• You like to work in a team, you are a problem-solver, and you will apply your skills to support the needs of our customers.

• You enjoy finding ways to feed intelligence back to your colleagues, as well as into the products and tasks you work on.

• A perfectionist, you take great pride in the quality of your work, ensuring that it performs well and meets the technical and functional requirements. This also means you strive to deliver on time, and you can prioritize and manage your tasks accordingly.

• You strive to exceed expectations, and you like to work in a team that you can learn from.

• You are not afraid to share and express your opinion.

• You are passionate about all aspects of software products from details in experience design to architecture problems and user-friendly documentation.

Main Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain parts of the customer facing frontend for the FNZ products and applications.

• Create wireframes & interactive prototypes to shape UX flows.

• Design and build highly intuitive user interfaces and interactive financial tools required by financial advisers and investors.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into well-structured, maintainable architectural designs.

• Participate in the design, development, and maintenance of software applications using modern tools and frameworks.

• Ensure high-quality code through adherence to clean code principles and the development of comprehensive test cases.

• Analyse and troubleshoot technical issues, identifying root causes and delivering effective solutions.

• Work effectively within an Agile framework to prioritize and deliver incremental value.

• Ensure a high level of quality of the developed application.

• Push technological and methodological innovation.

Experience required

Requirements

• A degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or comparable title.

• A minimum of 5 years of professional experience.

• Hands-on experience in prototyping ideas and rapidly iterating designs.

• Good proficiency in JavaScript, with experience in plain Vanilla JavaScript, HTML5, CSS and responsive design.

• Knowledge of React and Typescript.

• Experience in designing and prototyping UI/UX patterns

• Experience with testing frameworks like Jest, Karma and Jasmine.

• Experience with implementing accessible web applications.

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

• Experience with Medium to large-scale standards-based web applications, conceptual design, and implementation of modern software architectures.

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

• Experience in reading/writing technical requirements.

• Good communication and presentation skills.

• Any Java experience is a plus. Experience in reading/writing technical requirements.

• Impeccable communication and presentation skills.

• Fluency in English is mandatory.

Preferred

• Prior experience working in product-driven or SaaS companies using low code tools

• Experience working with banking, BPM, or process automation software

About FNZ Culture

Our culture is what drives us. It's at the heart of who we are and everything we do. It's what inspires, excites and moves us forward. Our ambition is to create a culture for growth, one that opens up limitless opportunities for our employees, customers and the wider world. At FNZ we know that great impact is only possible with great teamwork.

That’s why we value the strength and diversity of thought in our global team.

The FNZ Way is the cornerstone of what we do. It is comprised of four values that set the standard for how everyone at FNZ interacts with each other, with our customers, and with all our diverse stakeholders around the world.

Care hard for customers and each other Bring ambition to everything we do Own it all the way Work as one open team

Read more about The FNZ Way and our values: www.fnz.com/culture

Opportunities

• Right from day one, you will work alongside exceptional, multicultural teams - experts in their respective fields - who will inspire and challenge you to make your greatest impact.

• Be part of a highly successful, rapidly growing, global business that is leading the delivery of financial services via cloud computing and partners with some of the world’s largest companies;

• Working in a flexible and agile way that meets the needs of the business and personal circumstances;

• Remuneration, significant financial rewards and career advancement is based on individual contribution and business impact rather than tenure or seniority;

• We provide global career opportunities for our best employees at any of our offices in the UK, EU, US, Canada, South Africa and APAC.

Commitment to Equal Opportunities

At FNZ, we recognise that diversity, equity and inclusion are important factors contributing to our success. We embrace the unique perspective and capabilities of our current and future employees, which will help us continue to drive innovation and achieve our business goals. Recruitment decisions at FNZ are made in a non-discriminatory manner without regard to gender, ethnicity/race, faith, age, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, socio-economic background, disability or military veteran status where all applicants and employees are valued and respected.

In addition, we want to ensure accessibility needs are well supported, if you require specific support please advise us.

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.