Associate Software Engineer

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Convert UX designs into UI components, workflows and interfaces across digital platforms.
• Build reusable frontend components and component libraries, and create CSS/SCSS with compilation and minification.
• Collaborate with UX designers, product managers, business analysts, developers and other teams on user-centred solutions.
• Contribute to UX standards, guidelines and toolkits, as well as product proofs of concept, ideation sessions and design sprints.
• Build frontend features and enhance the UI/UX of new digital applications.
• Adopt new toolkits and frameworks and adapt to new technologies.

Essential experience and skills

• Proven frontend development experience, ideally in a large and matrixed organisation.
• Hands-on JavaScript and React or Next.js frontend experience, including CSS styling, reusable React libraries, Storybook and design-system tools.
• Hands-on TypeScript experience building components and integrating them into a pipeline.
• Knowledge of frontend pipelines such as Gulp, NPM, Bower or Webpack, and hands-on GitHub operational knowledge.
• Experience with application branding and white labelling, working with development teams and following brand guidelines.
• Experience across the UX lifecycle, including building UI from wireframes and high-fidelity prototypes.
• Understanding of user-centred design, accessibility standards and responsive design.
• Communication, facilitation, collaboration, technical analysis and ability to interpret specifications and contribute to architecture artefacts.

Desirable skills

• Angular, Vue or Svelte frontend systems knowledge is desirable.
• Knowledge of Sitecore CMS, Pega and Guidewire Digital platforms is desirable.

Additional role expectations