User Experience Engineer / Front End Developer

We develop revolutionary digital solutions that leverage next generation technologies - AI, blockchain, machine learning, IoT, AR, VR, bringing to life amazing user experiences. It’s people who make software, not robots – and many companies tend to forget that. We are social creatures, and we want to work together on things that are meaningful to us, in ways that make us become better and better each day.

What you'll need to succeed:

- Very good communication skills in English, both written and spoken (at least level 4/5)
- Ability to work independently and as part of a global team
- Strong experience in developing with HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Strong experience in developing modular JavaScript
- Strong grasp of cross-browser quirks and compatibility, mobile-first content driven responsive design and development, progressive enhancement, leveraging APIs, testing and resolving performance concerns
- Team Git workflow and version control experience
- Unix shell and command line tools
- Good experience working with Linux and Windows operating systems

Nice to have:

- Good understanding of public or private cloud solutions
- Experience with DB2 or Oracle databases
- Experience with application servers

What you'll do:

- Understanding user needs, and exploring user-centric designs
- Specifying, building, testing, deploying, maintaining, nd supporting your code
- Leveraging modern tools and techniques to develop clean, efficient, and reusable code
- Identifying and addressing design, development, and delivery performance bottlenecks
- Actively participating in code and design reviews
- Coaching, educating, and advocating front end development best practice
- Work closely with design team members, product management and engineering to identify user pain points and needs
- Explore, evaluate and refine low fidelity designs with a focus on gathering further user insight:
- Create design artefacts in a way that will get the feedback you need to influence the product’s design
- Conduct hands-on testing, workshops and interviews to derive insight from your designs
- Converge on a clearly articulated user experience that shows other designers, developers and offering managers how to address user pain points and deliver the things they need
- Work with Design Researchers, Visual Designers and Developers to ensure that everything you do is supported and guided by research, as well as being realistic and implementable