Senior Front-end Software Developer
ATB Financial, Canada
Job Description
ATB Ventures: Putting the future in the hands of our customers
An extension of ATB Financial, ATB Ventures was started back in 2018, knowing that the convergence of data with powerful emerging technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, and machine learning would pave the way for major disruption and value creation that exceeded the digital transformation of the past 20 years.
ATB Ventures is a team of engineers, data scientists, product managers, and business operators who having been building emerging solutions from scratch - including Open ATBgt; Open AI, Open Data, API Sandbox,Oliu (Self-Sovereign Digital ID platform), Proof (Digital credential wallet) and more.
Job Number: REQ1749
Location: Anywhere in Alberta
Apply by: April 30th, 2021
Paygrade: UR-Under Review
# Positions available: 1
Leader Name: Terry Thibodeau
About the role | What we are looking for.
ATB Ventures is looking for a Senior Front-end Software Developer to join our Engineering team and architect the customer experience for our MVP products.
As a Senior Front-end Software Developer, you are motivated to combine the art of design with the art of programming. Responsibilities will include translation of the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of the application. You will work with the UI/UX designer and bridge the gap between graphical design and technical implementation, taking an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks as well as how it works.
Key competencies | What competencies we need in an ideal candidate
Customer-focused approach to solutions: You possess the ability to distill and abstract complex concepts into simple designs, easily understandable by customers and users.
Strategic and systems thinking: You are someone who can design and build scalable systems with the capacity to support growth. Using your breadth of experience, your ability to recognize patterns and filter important factors from negligible details, you recommend solutions that consider technical fit as well as business impact.
Growth and performance-oriented: You are someone who is focused on adding value, achieving revenue growth, and other outcomes. You don’t shy away from taking charge to get things done.
Summary of responsibilities | What you will be responsible for day-to-day.
- Translate UI/UX designs into working prototypes and products that delight customers
- Work independently and as a team member to research and develop products
- Work with the team to develop end-to-end features across cloud, mobile and web infrastructures
- Continually analyze code for anti-patterns, coach, and improve upon fundamental coding principles and patterns across the engineering team
- Participate in code reviews, pair-programming, and other activities to promote mastery of software engineering practices
- Work with the team to explore new ideas through experimentation, prototypes and fast feedback
- Focus on open standards and open source before seeking a proprietary solution to a problem
- Live, breathe, and work in the Cloud
- Utilize Scrum and other Agile methodologies to complete tasks and accomplish workflows.
- Participate as an Agile coach to lead team activities
- As a teammate at ATB Financial, you will agree to uphold our values and Code of Conduct.
Requirements
Helpful skills amp; experience | What we're looking for in the ideal candidate
- Graduate degree in Engineering, Science or relevant experience
- 4+ years of experience in architecting and developing scalable, responsive front-end/UI frameworks or platforms
- Experience translating UI/UX designs into working prototypes and products
- Extensive knowledge with HTML, CSS (and CSS preprocessors), Javascript, Node.js, React, Webpack, Babel, or other leading-edge web technologies
- Extensive knowledge of search engine optimization (SEO)
- Strong knowledge of architectural patternsMVP, MVC, MVVM, and Clean Architecture and the ability to choose the best solution for the applications
- Experience integrating with SDKs and APIs.
- Extensive experience creating testable code, unit and integration test suites, and integrating automated testing platforms
- Self-starter, with the ability to establish OKRs, KPIs, milestones and keep projects on task
- Strong strategic thinking skills and a bias for action and learning.
- Empathetic, relatable, responsible
- Bonus points if you’ve built a startup, can demonstrate your unique contributions to open source projects and/or have experience with human interface/human UX
At ATB, we know that highly talented people can readily transfer their skills. If you believe your skills and experience are transferable, please c