Summary of the Role:-
We are looking for an experienced front-end web developer to join our growing business unit (headquartered in Reigate, ~250 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 lead, you will be working across multiple flexible agile squads delivering value on multiple greenfield workstreams in the delivery family. 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 Manager 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.
The Requirements:-
- The technology stack is primarily Angular, C#, and Azure along with other suitable technologies guided by our internal tech radar. We are looking for web developers with particularly s teams, hence candidates will need to demonstrate:
- Proficiency in the design and development of responsive single-page/progressive web applications using JavaScript/TypeScript/HTML/CSS (Angular, React, Vue, 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 Selenium and SpecFlow).
- 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.).
Ability to architect high-performance and scalable web application and supporting infrastructures.
- Ability to coordinate day-to-day development and bug fixing activities.
- Experience in guiding teams in UX strategy, implementations, and reviews.
Other highly desirable, but not essential skills are
:
- Experience using Visual Studio Team Services/Azure DevOps and Git.
- Experience with SQL Server or other database management systems.
- Experience with XUnit, Moq and other unit testing tools.
- General knowledge of the Insurance Industry.
- Degree-educated with Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or relevant discipline.
Equal Opportunity Employer
At WTW, we believe difference makes us stronger. We want our workforce to reflect the different and varied markets we operate in and to build a culture of inclusivity that makes colleagues feel welcome, valued and empowered to bring their whole selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive work environment throughout our organization. We embrace all types of diversity.