Lead Front-End Product Engineer

Bring your possibility to life! Define your career with us

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

Build high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications & build capability in others to do the same. This includes but is not limited to applying critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions & leading all phases of the development lifecycle to deliver.

Job Description

The Platform Engineering team within the Chief Technology Office is looking for a Lead Front-End Product Engineer

About the team:

Platform Engineering makes technology work for you. We give Absa a new way of approaching work from a technology perspective. We disrupt old ways of operating technology to catapult the business into new ways of thinking. We address business needs and provide cost-effective solutions. Through our services we free business from the grip of legacy vendor platforms and costly licensing. We focus on helping you build and leverage new generation platforms, from Containers to OpenSource. We build business value faster because we have access to the best platforms and training. Our platform allows teams to focus more on development and less on infrastructure. With our Bison ecosystem we initiate your development environment.

Key critical requirements:

8 years' relevant experience
Expert proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, Modern Javascript Frameworks (preferably Angular, or React/Vue/etc but willing to work on Angular solutions)
Solid Javascript experience used across different projects / engagements
Strong track record of designing and engineering UIs using good engineering practices
The desire to continually learn about emerging technologies / emerging trends
Hands-on experience in building scalable client-side solutions
In-depth understanding of web standards and markup including HTML5 and CSS3
Understanding pre-processing platforms such as LESS and SASS
Proficient understanding of Javascript packaging frameworks like Webpack and Babel
Excellent communication skills and experience in collaborative environments
Collaborate with UX/UI Designers to build modern interfaces

As a Front-End Engineer you will:

Write lots of code and design modern interfaces for internal and client facing systems
Solve unique technical problems
Work within a very technically strong team who are working on delivering high quality solutions and will have the opportunity to learn and develop
You will bring your experience, expertise and solid track record

DevOps

Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems with high quality solutions
Contribute to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including e.g. design process
Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
Develop high quality software / application design and architecture in a test driven & domain driven / cross domain environment
Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
Create & Maintain Sophisticated CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / Azure Devops or similar tools and deploy to multi-site environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)
Use & configure modern observability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the application. To do this, leverage e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRelic and distributed tracing like Zipkin/Jaeger etc.
Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
Work with guilds and other technical SME’s to improve and evolve technical products and services
Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation and verification testing (apply knowledge of stubbing tools e.g. wiremock, hoverfly etc.)
Apply version control and related concepts and techniques
Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture, Security & Infrastructure guidelines
Work with project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.
Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices e.g. scripting languages, containerization etc.
Contribute to the design & evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure & associated technical standards for the organization

People

Coach & mentor other engineers
Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
Provide technical subject matter expertise and support in the attraction and recruitment of Product Engineers for the organization
Participate as a subject matter expert in the development & development planning of the broader product engineering team
Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)

Education