Senior Front-End Engineer (Remote)

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Senior Front-End Engineer to design and build Client Assist Pages for their Online Banking application. The role involves providing technical guidance, collaborating with product and business owners, and overseeing distributed development team members while ensuring high-quality code and best practices are followed.

Responsibilities:

• Join an Agile pod of developers and automation engineers supported by a product manager and scrum master and collaborate with other Online Banking pods
• Collaborate with Product and business owners to understand the business domain & products sufficiently to suggest best design / implementation to meet user needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability
• Spend most of your time on the design of systems, while maintaining a substantial percentage of time dedicated to hands-on implementation activities
• Gain a solid hands-on knowledge of our client-facing web application, our microservices, our data architecture and databases, and our internal supporting systems and how they integrate with each other
• Become a subject matter expert in one or more technical environments and deliver frameworks or standards to help other engineers follow best practices
• Estimate (t-shirt) large features and releases as needed
• Break down large feature sets in a way that other team members can understand, lead them to a successful implementation/release, and train them to do this themselves
• Drive technical designs to consensus and approval by Architecture Review Team
• Design and develop enterprise solutions for specific business need that provide frameworks, interfaces and services that can be extended and reused for future requirements
• Perform impact analysis of proposed changes on existing architecture, capabilities, system priorities, and technology solutions
• Look for additional solution options or trade-offs and identify cost/benefit implications of proposed solutions. (e.g. people, processes, technology, strategy, finance)
• Conduct group training sessions or lunch and learns
• Come up with ideas for refreshing old processes and work with product manager or team lead to get these approved and document all updates to processes
• Identify opportunities for refactoring and other tech debt remediation efforts throughout the code base that can be included in normal delivery activities
• Leverage your extensive experience in previous projects to guard code quality and take opportunities to mentor junior engineers
• Lend a hand in architecture and design discussions for other engineers, considering knowledge of the existing code base
• Help mentor other team members in large scale feature planning
• Express what you know comfortably and confidently, especially during code reviews
• Drive to learn new things and go above and beyond the call of duty
• Always work to improve yourself and constructively support the team around you
• Accept feedback with eagerness to learn more

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree and 4 years of experience in Software Application Development and Maintenance OR High School Diploma or GED and 8 years of experience in Software Application Development and Maintenance
• 6+ years of hands-on experience with front end development
• Solid experience with React 16+, Redux, Mobx Store Management, Node.js, Typescript, ES6, CSS3, CSS Preprocessors, Grid Layout Knowledge, Jest Test
• Very well versed and practical experience with Agile/Iterative delivery methodologies
• Deep love of building elegant, maintainable, well-documented, secure code – Abstracting and refactoring should be a passion, not a chore
• Ability to influence the architecture and design
• Ability to analyze and trouble shoot production issues
• Experience with TDD and CICD delivery
• Experience with distributed systems and with Micro-services architecture
• Hands-on experience with RESTful web services, web applications, transactional databases
• Experience with enterprise integration services/solutions
• Experience and exposure to API gateways
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Gitlab, Docker and Jenkins
• Bonus points for experience with regulated financial organizations