Frontend Developer - Financial Markets Pricing Architecture in Amsterdam

Frontend Developer– Financial Markets Pricing Architecture

Our team is in search of a passionate front-end developer for our globally-used Pricing and Risk management platform. We need you if you love to build UIs that are not just good enough, but are actually thought through, logical, interactive and engaging; moreover, you are comfortable and experienced with interacting directly with Traders developing Trading features to ensure the solutions get our Traders one-step-ahead in analyzing new deals and pricing them competitively using and visualizing all markets insights available in our platform.

Based in Amsterdam, we expect you to be responsible and take ownership together with your colleagues in Amsterdam, Brussels, Bucharest the UK, India and Singapore. Be open, honest, communicate clearly and be eager to learn.

What is expected of you:

• You are an experienced frontend engineer and a hardcore JavaScript developer with more than 4 years of experience in front-end development
• You have experience with the latest versions of JavaScript (ES6/ESNext), HTML, CSS, NodeJS/Express and NPM
• You have a clear vision on front-end technology and micro-front-ends and you have solid knowledge and understanding of component based development (React, Polymer, lit-element, etc.)
• You have experience with performance measurements and optimizations.
• You have worked with and have a thorough understanding of state management systems (like Redux, XState)
• You understand the basic principles of UX and RESTful API design.
• You believe that the easiest way to ensure software quality is by having proper testing. hence, you have used at least a few of the test libraries/tools (Jasmine, Karma, Selenium etc.)
• You appreciate the importance of security and accessibility and always build your applications with it in mind
• Knowledge of, working background or just an interest in Financial Markets is very welcome
• You are a strong team player, you love to share knowledge and you are interested in other people’s work
• You are enthusiastic about working in Agile setup

Your responsibilities:

• Gather user requirements when it comes to UX
• Design, prototype and develop complex interactive web interfaces
• Contribute to the architecture of the client application
• Develop reusable UI components that can be utilized by other ING teams, not only in Financial Markets
• Help back-end developers to come up with good REST APIs
• Share the knowledge and good practices of front-end development with other team members

What we offer:

• Ability to choose the right tools for the job
• You will be working in a front-end expertise squad
• Being very close to the end users. No need to write/read lengthy specifications, you can ask for directions or feedback directly from people who will be using your app
• Challenging but very interesting project where performance and correctness of behavior has direct impact on users