Principal Frontend Developer (React)
On site
London, United Kingdom
Full Time
26-02-2025
Job Specifications
PRINCIPAL FRONTEND DEVELOPER (REACT)
Joining Capco means joining an organisation that is committed to an inclusive working environment where you’re encouraged to #BeYourselfAtWork. We celebrate individuality and recognize that diversity and inclusion, in all forms, is critical to success. It’s important to us that we recruit and develop as diverse a range of talent as we can and we believe that everyone brings something different to the table – so we’d love to know what makes you different. Such differences may mean we need to make changes to our process to allow you the best possible platform to succeed, and we are happy to cater to any reasonable adjustments you may require. You will find the section to let us know of these at the bottom of your application form or you can mention it directly to your recruiter at any stage and they will be happy to help.
Why Join Capco?
Capco is a global technology and business consultancy, focused on the financial services sector. We are passionate about helping our clients succeed in an ever-changing industry.
You will work on engaging projects with some of the largest banks in the world, on projects that will transform the financial services industry.
We Are/have
Experts across the Capital Markets, Insurance, Payments, Retail Banking and Wealth & Asset Management domains.
Deep knowledge in various financial services offerings including Finance, Risk and Compliance, Financial Crime, Core Banking etc.
Committed to growing our business and hiring the best talent to help us get there.
Focused on maintaining our nimble, agile and entrepreneurial culture.
As a Lead Engineer At Capco, You Will
Demonstrate practical experience of engineering best practices, while being obsessed with continuous improvement
Have expertise in a set of the team's domains, including the breadth of services, how they interact, and data flows between systems
Able to work alone or with teams drawing on experience to recommend tooling and solutions aligning with organisational strategies. Influences organisation wide testing strategy
Architects’ services and systems using well accepted design patterns to allow for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling. Guides teams in anticipation of future use cases and helps them make design choices that minimise the cost of future changes
Be comfortable managing engineers ensuring they are tracking the team's efficiency and quality of work; they assist in regularly adjusting processes and timelines to ensure high quality work is delivered
Have personally made valuable contributions to products, solutions and teams and can articulate the value to customers.
Have played a role in the delivery of critical business applications and ideally customer facing applications.
Can communicate complex ideas to non-experts with eloquence and confidence.
Have an awareness and understanding of new technologies being used in finance and other industries and loves to experiment.
Have a passion for being part of the engineering team that is forming the future of finance.
Skills & Expertise
You will have experience working with some of the following Methodologies/Technologies.
Technical Skills
Exceptional JavaScript/TypeScript experience
React (Preferred), Vue.js, Next.js, Angular
CSS: exposure to SASS/LESS, frameworks: Bootstrap, SemanticUI, MaterialUI and Responsive design - CSS Grid/Flexbox
Security standards: OAuth2, OpenID Connect & JWT
Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
At least one state management tool – Redux (preferred) / Flux / MobX
Experience using and configuring task runners – Webpack(preferred) / Grunt
Testing framework: Mocha / Jasmine / Chai / Jest / Enzyme
Experience deploying containerised applications in CI/CD pipelines
Experience coaching and mentoring junior developers
Exceptional understanding of debugging and resolving application issues
Knowledge of cloud concepts, capabilities, and design considerations
Docker, Kubernetes
Experience in Security technologies, protocols & techniques (e.g. TLS, OAuth, Encryption, Networks
We’d Also Like To See
An appetite to contribute to the wider Capco business outside of project assignments. This can be achieved through various means including thought leadership activities, supporting RFP's and the coaching/mentoring of more junior engineering team members
Strong senior stakeholder management skills: you should be able to act from an engineer to a director level.
Knowledge of financial services products, applications, business flows and the regulatory environments, will be considered an asset; but it is not a prerequisite
Experience with managing business cases from a cost/return of investment/benefit realization perspective
Experience of hiring Frontend professionals of various seniority levels and locations
We Offer
A work culture focused on innovation and building lasting value for our clients and employees
Ongoing learning opportunities to help you acquire new skills or deepen existing expertise
A flat structure that will enable you to work with senior partners and directly with clients
A diverse, inclusive, meritocratic culture
Enhanced family friendly benefits, including maternity / adoption / shared parental leave and paid leave for sickness, pregnancy loss, fertility treatment, menopause, and bereavement
We have been informed of several recruitment scams targeting the public. We strongly advise you to verify identities before engaging in recruitment related communication. All official Capco communication will be conducted via a Capco recruiter.
About the Company
Capco, a Wipro company, is a global technology and management consultancy specializing in driving digital transformation in the financial services industry. With a growing client portfolio comprising of over 100 global organizations, Capco operates at the intersection of business and technology by combining innovative thinking with unrivalled industry knowledge to deliver end-to-end data-driven solutions and fast-track digital initiatives for banking and payments, capital markets, wealth and asset management, insurance, and ... Know more
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