Senior Front-End Engineer (Angular)

Working Arrangement:

Hybrid

Job Description:

Are you looking for a supportive, collaborative workplace with great teams and inspiring leaders? You’ve come to the right place. We’re looking for ambitious people who share our values and want to make every day better for people around the world. If this sounds like you, and the career below sounds exciting, we’d like to hear from you. 

Manulife Core Engineering and Transformation is seeking a self-motivated Front-End Software Engineer (Angular), who is obsessed with delivering value, is forward-thinking, and excited to see the successful implementation of the products they deliver. They will have experience in designing, developing, testing, maintaining and improving application APIs as a member of a team, works across key data, orchestration, rules and transactional stacks through the entire application and system development life cycle.   

What motivates you?  

• You obsess about customers, listen, engage and act for their benefit
• You think big, with curiosity to discover ways to use your agile mindset and enable business outcomes
• You thrive in teams, and enjoy getting things done together
• You take ownership and build solutions, focusing on what matters
• You do what is right, work with integrity and speak up
• You share your humanity, helping us build a diverse and inclusive work environment for everyone  

We are looking for someone with:  

• Familiar with Object-Oriented Programming Concept 
• Familiar with technologies such as HTML, CSS, Javascript, Typescript, Node
• Advance Knowledge in FE Framework like Angular,
• Advance knowledge in FE Testing Framework like Jasmine, Jest, Cypress
• Advance Knowledge in FE Design like Material UI, BEM, SMACSS, CSS Flex-box, CSS Grid
• Aptitude to write clean commented, and optimized code
• Good Knowledge of UI Design tools like Sketch and Figma
• Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively; knowledge in creating prototypes
• Familiarity with agile and DevOps principles, test-driven development, continuous integration, and other approaches to accelerate the delivery of new features
• Collaborative attitude, willingness to work with team members; able to coach, participate in code reviews, share skills and methods
• Constantly learns from both success and failure
• Good organizational and problem-solving abilities that enable you to manage through creative abrasion
• Good verbal and written communication; effectively articulates technical vision, possibilities, and outcomes
• Experiments with emerging technologies and understanding how they will impact what comes next

Nice to Haves:   

• Exposure to PaaS and micro-service architectures
• Exposure to and understanding of Agile scrum methodologies and experience of working in an Agile team
• Experienced in grasping and explaining high level solution architecture 
• Exposure to and basic understanding of collaboration tools like Slack, Skype, JIRA
• Knowledge in SonarQube, Fortify and WebInspect
• Knowledge in PCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry)

 On the job you will:  

• Translates strategic design into controls, mechanisms, and processes that users require to meet goals
• Designs screens or pages with which a user interacts and ensure UI visually communicates the path that a UX designer has laid out
• Develops choices around design and user interfaces that allow cross-discipline teams to solve customer pain points and challenges
• Concepts and implements the visual product language; create and advance site-wide style guides
• Constructs quick interactive prototypes that illustrate your UI design: functional with modern effects, animations, and transitions as appropriate, that present a realistic feel of the intended experience
• Presents prototypes to a large audience and key stakeholders of Product as and when required
• Participates in visual problem-solving with the product team, relevant stakeholders within the Product team
• Collaborates with product management and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals, and experience
• Conceptualizes original ideas that bring simplicity and user-friendliness to complex design roadblocks
• Creates wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas