React Job: Senior Front End Engineer

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive, and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

What will you be doing?
• Being a key member within our agile feature teams, taking the lead on UI development for that team

• Taking business and functional requirements and translating them into technical, functional and user interface designs
• Producing and maintaining readable, well-documented code, along with accompanying automated test coverage
• Contributing towards best practice across all the feature teams
• Support and mentor junior colleagues, including graduates, interns and higher apprentices
• Partaking in all aspects of an iterative Agile development lifecycle

What we’re looking for:
• Extensive hands-on experience designing and building Single Page Applications, using AngularJS or ReactJS, plus experience of native iOS and Android development

• Experience with Bootstrap, Materialize or Responsive Web Design
• Exceptional leadership, communication and collaboration skills
• Proven ability to design and develop enterprise solutions using tools and techniques such as GIT, TDD/BDD, Jasmine, JEST, Karma and automated CI/CD

Skills that will help you in the role:
• Experience of consuming REST APIs and message queues

• Java programming experience, while not essential, would be an advantage
• Experience in the Wealth Management, Financial Planning and Digital Investing domains
• Educated to degree level or above, preferably in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Where will you be working?
Our new state-of-the-art Campus, right in the heart of Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration. A place where everyone can bring their true selves to work and reach their full potential. Home to 5,000 of our colleagues, our Tradeston campus will support the community in more ways than one - by creating thousands of new career opportunities and celebrating local artists. A short walk from Central Station on the south of the Clyde, it will be a key location for the Barclays business that will deepen our ties with the city and its community.

Hybrid Working
We are currently operating in a hybrid working environment, meaning that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.


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