Frontend JavaScript Developer – TypeScript- Guildford

Overview

In this role you will reshape the frontend stack for a fintech software house serving major banks, driving a UX-first approach and modern UI components. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to modernize the UI, improve testability, and extend enterprise-grade solutions. You’ll tackle architecture upgrades, prototype new components, and contribute to secure and scalable frontend solutions. This is a hands-on, tech-focused environment that rewards thoughtful, high-quality code and rapid problem solving.

Pay / Benefits

• Home working for part of the week

Responsibilities

• Rearchitect the UI framework to improve testability and reduce library coupling
• Upgrade the UI rendering library from AngularJS to a long-term solution
• Collaborate with UX to implement a UX-first design approach
• Support feature-focused scrum teams with complex requirements
• Research and apply best practices, including application security
• Coordinate with other development teams to identify and implement use cases
• Build prototypes and convert them into enterprise-grade components
• Assist in debugging and troubleshooting across the frontend stack
• Contribute to initiatives like NLP text processing, OCR metrics, and data reconciliation workflows
• Engage with RESTful APIs and scalable cloud-style architectures (containers, microservices) to extend applications

Key requirements

• STEM degree preferred (strong academic background)
• Strong understanding of JavaScript; TypeScript knowledge preferable
• Proficiency with web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML)
• Experience with web component design
• Exposure to AngularJS and frontend modernization context
• Ability to work in a collaborative, cross-functional environment

• problem-solving mindset
• self-motivation
• cross-functional collaboration
• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• HTML/CSS/XML