Frontend Engineer

Job Description

Due to growth, we're now recruiting for a Frontend Engineer to join our Investcentre team and help enhance our award-winning platform.

You will be joining a team which has a philosophy of continuous improvement, and a strong focus on engineering excellence. 

What does the job involve?

• Agile methodologies and a passion for continuous improvement and working in a high-performance engineering team.
• Work with the team to design and deliver high quality products.
• At AJ Bell we pair, and you, in most cases will pair with other members of the team.

What we're looking for

• Expertise in building modular and reusable components for Single Page Applications with one or more of the following frameworks: Angular, React, Vue, etc. 
• Good knowledge of JavaScript (ES5/6 and up) 
• Experience with at least one version control tool: GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab, etc. 
• Experience with at least one UI framework: Bootstrap, Tailwind, Material, etc, 
• Experience of common Frontend styling paradigms: BEM, CSS modules, CSS in JS, etc. 
• Knowledge of general Frontend tooling (particularly Node.js and npm) 
• Knowledge of writing unit tests 
• Knowledge and interest in asynchronous and event-based Frontend tooling: RxJS, Ngrx, Redux, etc. 
• Knowledge and interest in writing end-to-end journey tests using tech such as Cypress, Nightwatch, Webdriverio, Protractor, etc. 
• Knowledge and interest in Web APIs 
• Practical experience of solving inconsistency across multiple platforms (IE11, Safari, Firefox, Chrome on Windows or Mac) 
• Familiar with CI/CD practices 
• Understands principles behind highly performing web pages.

Soft skills

• Agile / Scrum / Kanban 
• Strong communication skills, written and verbal 
• Very motivated with high levels of drive and enthusiasm
• E-commerce and/or financial services experience 
• Agile methodologies and a passion for continuous improvement and working in a high-performance engineering team 

About us

AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award-winning range of solutions that caters for everyone, from professional financial advisers, to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have over 528,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £83.7 billion. Our customers trust us with their investments, and by continuously striving to make investing easier, we aim to help even more people take control of their financial futures.

Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company.

Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol, we now have over …