Senior Backbase Development Engineer

Job Description

Job Overview: 

• Work as a member of an agile team to design, build, test, and deploy new products and features.
• Participate and contribute to design innovation sprints, product kick off sessions and requirement workshops.
• Support our design innovation sprints by creating functional prototypes based on ideas generated.
• Design and develop applications, system to system interfaces and complete software solutions, and creates documentation such as user guides and software development guides.
• Produce high quality code while employing community accepted testing principles, best practices, and tooling.
• Make technology recommendations that balance business needs and technical requirements.
• Proactively understand stakeholder needs, goals, expectations, and viewpoints to deliver results.
• Provide guidance to teams on development standards, automation, and tooling.

Skills/Requirements:

• Backbase Front End Development experience.
• Technical expertise in various areas of software engineering and track record of successful project delivery.
• Strong experience with JavaScript/Typescript and NodeJS/NPM.
• Advanced level knowledge with React and/or other JavaScript app frameworks.
• Comfortable interfacing with RESTful services and consuming 3rd party APIs.
• Experience in working with designers to translate outline designs into fully working interfaces, that meet the experiences of the intended audience.
• Experience working with source control management tools such as Git and related workflows.
• A deep understanding of responsive web design and accessibility.
• High desire for internal collaboration to drive improvements in quality with code reviews and knowledge sharing.
• Deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly.
• Ability and willingness to multi-task and learn new technologies quickly.
• Strong customer focus, ownership, urgency, and drive.
• A passion for delivering best-in-class experiences, ensuring solutions meet the needs of people.
• Project management skills and a keen attention to detail.
• Great communication skills both verbal and written, with strong relationship and organizational skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent qualification.
• Flexibility to work on many new, challenging, and rapid moving projects.
• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time, once travel resumes.

All About You:

• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and ceremonies.
• Experience with UI and workflow prototyping tools.
• Cross-industry experience in start-up and corporate environments.
• Experience building Internet of Things (IoT) devices/interfaces.
• Experience building Conversational UI (CUI / VUI) and Bots (Amazon Alexa, FB Messenger, Google Assistant).
• Developing for different form factors (Mobile, Tablet, Watch, TV, Auto, Smart Display, Kiosk).
• Experience with Artificial Intelligence (NLP/ ML/ CNN/ RNN).
• Experience working with a cloud system such as Microsoft Azure or AWS.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline tooling such as Jenkins.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks such as Jest.
• Financial services, banking, fintech and/or payment systems experience.
• Experience with system architecture and having previous leadership experience on a software team is a strong advantage.
• Has worked with clients to understand problems and gather requirements.
• High-energy, proactive and ability to function under pressure.