Full Stack UI Developer

at  XL Catlin

FULL STACK UI DEVELOPER

UK – London
AXA XL recognizes digital, data and information assets are critical for the business, both in terms of managing risk and enabling new business opportunities. Digital assets should not only be high quality, but also drive a sustained competitive advantage and delivering a superior experience to our internal, external customers and improving efficiency. Our Innovation, Data & Analytics function is focused on driving innovation by optimizing how we leverage digital, data and AI to drive strategy and differentiate ourselves from the competition.
As we develop an enterprise-wide data and digital strategy that moves us toward greater focus on the use of data and strengthens our digital, AI & innovation capabilities, we are seeking a Full-Stack Developer. In this role, you will work as part of a team to develop, maintain, and enhance one or more digital products and platforms that seek to yield a significant business benefit, helping us build competitive advantage and market differentiation through execution on innovation.
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What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Work with Lead Developer, UX Designer and the Product Owner to inform UX designs and internal stake holders to develop data & AI applications.
• Operate as Full-Stack Developer for IDA applications, portals & integrations.
• Collaborating with design, project, and other team members, discussing problem solving approaches, participating in code reviews and pair programming.
• Contributing to daily stand ups and other agile ceremonies to ensure visibility of team progress.
• Using and extending our existing back-end web application and infrastructure codebases, adhering to their code standards and structure while bearing in mind the advantages and consequences of refactoring and upgrading.
• Ensure that the solution is designed to perform across multiple platforms.
• Work with Lead Developer and support on technical design, target state software architectures, data mappings & integration mechanisms.
• Analyze & understand the requirements, take ownership for delivering the assigned development task and ensure quality deliverables. Optimized coding with good documentation and maintain the consistency.
• Working as part of an Agile squad & vendors, ensure delivery within tight timelines and meeting the expectations of the team.
• Engage in the entire lifecycle of the development in Agile project.
• Support Lead Developer in engagement with GT governance forums, ensuring alignment with AXA architecture standards as the project moves through the relevant stage gates.
• Ability to work in a high-pressure environment and meet delivery timelines with a high degree of client satisfaction is critical.
• Key Technologies: React Js, React Test Framework, JavaScript, Typescript, Java Spring Boot, Java Junit, SQL and DevOps Lifecycle Experience (Mainly Azure).

You will report to the Division Lead.
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We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

• Extensive experience in Java, JavaScript / CSS / React.js
• Experience working on Spring Boot micro service architecture.
• Have great knowledge & understanding of new tools and technologies and able learn to learn fast.
• Should have expertise in Web development, accessibility and usability.
• Proven knowledge of cloud technologies (Azure strongly preferred)
• Knowledge with both relational and NoSQL databases
• Understanding and Implementation of DevOps principles
• Deep troubleshooting expertise to quickly identify server, network, and application issues, and methodical approach to implementing, testing, and measuring changes to remediate issues.
• Hands-on experience of developing REST web services and API’s.
• Create everything from mockups and UI components to algorithms and data structures as you deliver a complete minimally viable product.
• Should be able to contribute to improve code quality, organization, and automatization.
• Experience working as part of a squad in an Agile environment.
• Extensive familiarity with the version management tools like – GitHub
• Understand experience with design patters, Design System and have experience of contributing to its development with SOLID principles.
• Excellent project management, time management, verbal and written communications skills, as the job entails simultaneously managing multiple projects with internal stakeholders
• Solid knowledge of SQL
• Proactive attitude, ability to run projects with minimal direction given the global nature of the team.
• Effective communicator who can work with + learn from teams across different time zones
• Executes standard software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting.
• Writes secure and high-quality code using the syntax of at least one programming language with limited guidance.
• Develop codes and troubleshoot with consideration of upstream and downstream systems and technical implications.
• Gather, analyse, and draws conclusions from large, diverse data sets to identify problems and contribute to decision-making in service of secure, stable application development.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS, CAPABILITIES, AND SKILLS

• BS/BA degree or equivalent combination of education/experience
• Beneficial to have a certification on Java/JavaScript
• Hands-on experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages.
• Azure, Docker and cloud platform experience

• Work with Lead Developer, UX Designer and the Product Owner to inform UX designs and internal stake holders to develop data & AI applications.
• Operate as Full-Stack Developer for IDA applications, portals & integrations.
• Collaborating with design, project, and other team members, discussing problem solving approaches, participating in code reviews and pair programming.
• Contributing to daily stand ups and other agile ceremonies to ensure visibility of team progress.
• Using and extending our existing back-end web application and infrastructure codebases, adhering to their code standards and structure while bearing in mind the advantages and consequences of refactoring and upgrading.
• Ensure that the solution is designed to perform across multiple platforms.
• Work with Lead Developer and support on technical design, target state software architectures, data mappings & integration mechanisms.
• Analyze & understand the requirements, take ownership for delivering the assigned development task and ensure quality deliverables. Optimized coding with good documentation and maintain the consistency.
• Working as part of an Agile squad & vendors, ensure delivery within tight timelines and meeting the expectations of the team.
• Engage in the entire lifecycle of the development in Agile project.
• Support Lead Developer in engagement with GT governance forums, ensuring alignment with AXA architecture standards as the project moves through the relevant stage gates.
• Ability to work in a high-pressure environment and meet delivery timelines with a high degree of client satisfaction is critical.
• Key Technologies: React Js, React Test Framework, JavaScript, Typescript, Java Spring Boot, Java Junit, SQL and DevOps Lifecycle Experience (Mainly Azure)