The job in short
We are looking for an experienced frontend engineer to strengthen our team. As a frontend engineer you will join a Product team in our Wealth value stream within the R&D department and you will focus on building digital investing products.
With Backbase Digital Investing, financial institutions can build user-centric trading, robo advisory and wealth management products. Backbase Digital Investing offers banks the foundation to quickly build, automate, and scale digital investment products.
Meet the job
As part of the team, you will contribute to new and existing functionalities, proof of concepts, and technical improvements that will be implemented in the Digital Investing Platform. Your autonomous team is responsible for the entire software development life cycle for the digital banking product suite: from idea to release. You are expected to take ownership of what you build and proactively collaborate with architects, QA engineers and other team members to ensure implementation is done according to our technical vision and best practices.
As a Frontend Developer, you’ll use Angular, TypeScript, and JavaScript ES6 to create the best omnichannel user experiences. You will also have the opportunity to craft HTML templates and write SASS using our Backbase Design System based on Bootstrap.
We love clean, testable, and maintainable code that is cross-browser compatible. You are part of a multidisciplinary team being end-to-end responsible for delivery, from concept to production-ready software.
We offer a hybrid working model which is a location-flexible arrangement that allows people to combine on-site and off-site work.
How about you
● You have 5+ years of relevant working experience working on complex products;
● You have a solid background in software development including design;
● You are able to communicate clearly and confidently across all levels to get buy-ins from technical stakeholders as well as from your team members;
● Experience in the banking domain or Fintech products will be considered an advantage;
● You have excellent communication skills in English, spoken and written;
● You have strong Angular and Typescript skills;
● Having experience with Nx is a great asset;
● You have worked with RxJS and understand design patterns;
● Experience in Vue.js will be considered an advantage;
● Having experience with Node and npm, and the Angular CLI would be an advantage too in building toolchains;
● You commonly use Gulp, Grunt and/or Webpack in your projects;
● Having hands-on experience with build systems like Jenkins is a plus;
● You have experience with non-functionals such as security, performance, scalability etc.;
● Being a Full Stack developer is a huge advantage;
● You have a solid understanding of Enterprise Integration Patterns.
Top Skills
What We Do
Backbase is a fast growing fintech software provider that empowers financial institutions to accelerate their digital transformation and effectively compete in a digital-first world. We are the creators of the Backbase Omni-Channel Banking Platform, a state-of-the-art digital banking software solution that unifies data and functionality from traditional core systems and new fintech players into a seamless digital customer experience. We give financials the speed and flexibility to create and manage seamless customer experiences across any device, and deliver measurable business results. We believe that superior digital experiences are essential to stay relevant, and our software enables financials to rapidly grow their digital business. More than 120 financials around the world have standardized on the Backbase omni-channel banking platform to streamline their digital sales and self-service operations across all digital touchpoints. Our customer base includes ABN AMRO, Bank ABC, Barclays, BPI, CheBanca!, Citizens Lightstream, Credit Suisse, Fidelity, HDFC, IDFC, KeyBank, Ila Bank, Me Bank, Navy Federal, PostFinance, RBC, RBS, Standard Bank, Societe Generale, Truist, U Bank and Westpac.
Industry analysts Celent, Gartner, Forrester and Ovum recognize Backbase as an industry leader in terms of omni-channel banking platform capabilities, and award the company high marks for its deep focus on customer experience management and unparalleled speed of implementation. Forrester named us a leader in the Forrester Wave for Omni-Channel Banking and Ovum nominates Backbase as the market leading provider of next-generation digital channel banking platforms.
Backbase was founded in 2003, is privately funded, with headquarters in Amsterdam (HQ Global) and Atlanta (HQ Americas) and regional operations in Boisse, Cardiff, Dubai, Kraków, Mexico City, New York, Toronto, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo.
