Our investment banking client has been present in the UK for more than 150 years, they're a long-term partner to British business. Today, the Group is formed of 10 divisions and employs 9,300 staff based in 21 core locations right across the country. Their role is simply stated: help clients achieve their goals by combining local know-how and global reach. In so doing, they seek to make a positive, sustainable contribution to both the UK economy and society.

On behalf of this organisation, AMS are looking for a Front End Developer for an initial 6 month contract based in London with remote working available (Hybrid).

Purpose of the Role:

• To Develop software changes to support functional and technical solutions to meet the underlying business requirements.
• You will be responsible for implementing both new initiatives and enhancements to existing functionality to meet business needs, regulatory needs and for overall platform maintenance/resolution of technical debt. Delivering high quality technical solutions according to technical design and functional requirements. Significant contributor to technical designs. Developing the platform whilst ensuring integrity of existing production processes.

Responsibilities of the role:

As a Front End Developer you will be responsible for:

• Participate in all development stages from detailed design, development, unit testing and delivery. Progressing topics either autonomously or as part of the extended team with offshore developers, assisting more junior team members where required.
• Provide production support of delivered software as and when required, going the extra mile for major production incidents, participating in out of hours/intraday support rotas as required.
• Engagement with BA/PMs to provide input into analysis tasks.
• Reporting and escalation to PM and Tech leads ensuring visibility of progress, risks and issues.
• For this role there is a particular focus on developing the UI using Angular as the underlying technology.

What we require from the candidate:

• Web Applications with Angular, jQuery and Struts experience.
• High standard of documentation, including writing clear and concise design documentation.
• Good knowledge of Java, Spring, SQL, messaging, Camel and Hibernate.
• Ability to write comprehensive unit tests.
• Strong development skills are an absolute prerequisite for this role.
• Experienced at developing technical solutions.
• Experience of developing both new systems and modification of existing systems.
• Ability to translate functional specifications into appropriate technical solutions.
• Contribute to high level technical designs.
• Resolving technical debt whist maintaining system integrity.

Next steps

If you are interested in applying for this position and meet the criteria outlined above, please click the link to apply and we will contact you with an update in due course.

This client will only accept workers operating via an Umbrella or PAYE engagement model.

AMS, a Recruitment Process Outsourcing Company, may in the delivery of some of its services be deemed to operate as an Employment Agency or an Employment Business.