Barclays

Senior Web Developer

Prague

As a Barclays Senior Web Developer, you will have an exciting opportunity to actively contribute to platform enhancements requested by the product owner or business users. With a heavy emphasis on both technical and communication skills, you will be expected to deliver robust design and technical solutions in a controlled, transparent and actively risk managed fashion. 

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?

• Being responsible for working on all aspects of analysis, design, implementation and deployment of software
• Focusing on good code quality and high test coverage and actively participate in code reviews
• Contributing to the delivery of complex projects in collaboration with global teams across Barclays
• Participating DevOps improvements for applications maintained by the team
• Being responsible for designing and implementing changes in environment configuration, deployment automation, application monitoring
• Engaging with business and technology partners to assist with the planning and execution of project work is expected
• Delivering effectively complex projects involving multiple business and technical teams

What we’re looking for:

• Experience and excellent skills in JS & Typescript and proficient with HTML5, CSS 3, SASS & Responsive design
• Experience building modern webapps preferable with Angular 3+ framework
• Solid understanding of fundamental web technologies such as HTTP(s), REST and JSON as well as of web standards, cross-browser compatibility, accessibility
• Experience with writing unit tests jasmine, mocha, jest or karma

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Experience with source control systems (e.g. Git), Issue-tracking systems (e.g. JIRA), Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum/Kanban) 
• Experience with DevOps tools: CI tools (e.g. TeamCity/Jenkins)
• Experience with: Webapp framework React, Vue, Svelte, etc. or ELK Stack (ElasticSearch) or User Analytics tools, NodeJS environment, Express, Next.js, NPM, NVM, etc
• Experience with Test automation with Selenium, Cypress or similar or UI/UX Design tools, figma, Adobe XD, Sketch

Where will you be working?

Our Prague office is based in the financial centre of Prague. We are part of the Operations and Technology Division, and as such, we try our best to stay at the top of our technological game. However, the technology itself is not the most important thing. What matters the most to us is the way our ingenuity can help provide better service to our customers and make life easier for our employees.

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