For one of the leading banks in Amsterdam we are looking for a senior Frontend Developer.

The Mission

You will be working on a Trading platform which consists of multiple components that enables real-time and batch calculations of financial risk metrics and simulations which are driven by new banking regulations . This platform is in the heart of the IT landscape for our global dealing rooms and risk managers in Asia, Europe and Americas, with 7-9 scrum teams spread across 4 locations (Amsterdam, Brussels, Bucharest and Singapore).

What is expected of you:

• You are an experienced frontend engineer and a hardcore JavaScript developer with more than 4 years of experience in front-end development
• You have experience with the latest versions of JavaScript (ES6/ESNext), HTML, CSS, NodeJS/Express and NPM
• You have a clear vision on front-end technology and micro-front-ends and you have solid knowledge and understanding of component based development (React, Polymer, lit-element, etc.)
• You have experience with performance measurements and optimizations.
• You have worked with and have a thorough understanding of state management systems (like Redux, XState)
• You understand the basic principles of UX and RESTful API design.
• You believe that the easiest way to ensure software quality is by having proper testing. hence, you have used at least a few of the test libraries/tools (Jasmine, Karma, Selenium etc.)
• You appreciate the importance of security and accessibility and always build your applications with it in mind
• Knowledge of, working background or just an interest in Financial Markets is very welcome
• You are a strong team player, you love to share knowledge and you are interested in other people’s work
• You are enthusiastic about working in Agile setup

Your responsibilities:

• Gather user requirements when it comes to UX
• Design, prototype and develop complex interactive web interfaces
• Contribute to the architecture of the client application
• Develop reusable UI components that can be utilized by other teams, not only in Financial Markets
• Help back-end developers to come up with good REST APIs
• Share the knowledge and good practices of front-end development with other team members

What we offer:

• Ability to choose the right tools for the job
• You will be working in a front-end expertise squad
• Being very close to the end users. No need to write/read lengthy specifications, you can ask for directions or feedback directly from people who will be using your app
• Challenging but very interesting project where performance and correctness of behavior has direct impact on users