Frontend Developer -
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Job description
- Collaborating with designers, writing front-end code and unit tests, working on the front-end architecture
- Spearheading the development of our frontend stack, architecting, and building frontend projects
- Being involved in inception to delivery of various features and products on a results-oriented and exciting product roadmap
- Working with project managers, technical leads, business owners, and analysts through the entire SDLC, understanding and refining systems requirements, working in Agile model
- Working closely and reviewing visual designs regularly with user-experience and design team
- Designing and maintaining JavaScript libraries, making sure they support the creative and engineering standards of BlackRock
- Keeping abreast of the new front-end web development technologies; integrate them with the existing systems
- Understanding and supporting existing systems, and resolve operations issues while working with other engineering staff located across the globe
- Being curious and eager to learn new things, with a healthy disrespect for the status quo
- Willing to embrace work outside of your comfort zone, and open to mentorship from others; you make mistakes, but learn from them
- Being passionate about technology, with personal ownership for the work you do
Requirements
Work ethic - You are a consummate professional.
Aptitude - You have an innate capacity to transition from project to project without skipping a beat.
Communication - You have excellent written and verbal communication skills for coordination across projects and teams.
Impact - You are a critical thinker with an emphasis on creativity and innovation.
Passion - You have the drive to succeed paired with a continuous hunger to learn.
Leadership - You are trusted, empathetic, accountable, and empower others around you., * 4+ years hands-on development experience on the front-end development with single page application frameworks like Angular, React.
- Hands on experience in working with TypeScript.
- Demonstratable experience in working with and designing REST APIs
- Knowledge and experience in working with NodeJS
- Experience with Unit testing (Jest, Vitest).
- Solid understanding and experience in HTML 5 and CSS 3.
- Hands-on experience in developing pixel perfect CSS driven, table-less HTML for all new projects, following development standards and templates as well as industry best practices.
- Solid experience in working with CMSs.
- Experience with migrating projects between tech stacks.
- Ability of writing clean, future proof code with proper unit testing.
- Knowledge of at least one distributed version control system ideally Git.
- Good written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Willing to work with global project teams spread across several time zones.
- Understanding the Agile project management disciplines, with an emphasis on Scrum.
- Strong collaboration, communication, and time management abilities.
Is a plus:
- Knowledge and interest in the financial services industry domain.
- Experience with Azure DevOps.
- Experience in an e2e testing framework like Playwright or Selenium.
- Experience with responsive web development, mobile and video technologies.
- Experience supporting Unix/Linux platforms.
- Experience in developing websites for accessibility.
- Working with design systems or developing according to design system specifications.
- Experience with containerization and cloud infrastructure