Lead/Senior JavaScript Developer

Job Title:  Lead/Senior JavaScript Developer
 
Intro
 
Whilst the last couple of years have been a tough time for everyone personally, we’ve adapted our strategy and continued our impressive growth. In that timeframe we’ve hired and integrated close to 150 new starters and grown our revenues significantly as a business.
 
We have adapted our ways of working to ensure that new starters that join feel part of one big virtual team. From regular town halls to coffee mornings and dedicated mental health days, we want to ensure we put the needs of our employees first. Feedback from our new hires has been positive, they love our onboarding programme and how much it makes them feel integrated into Trust from the start. Trust Payments was recently recognised for its accomplishments in employee engagement and is now considered one of the UK’s “Best Companies to Work having been awarded a 1* star rating indicating very good levels of workplace engagement.” Winning accolades in three other categories include being One of Financial Services top 30 companies, one of London’s top 75 large companies, and one of Wales top 30 companies to work for.
 
About Us:
 
Trust Payments is a global unified payment technology group that was formed in 2019 bringing together technology and financial services into an omnichannel solution. The new business model has enabled Trust Payments to establish itself as a leading Fintech Payments group. The company has undertaken a major culture reset and now operates as a fast-paced inclusive organisation with talented people at it’s very heart. In 2019 the business expanded it’s product offering from Gateway and Acquiring to POS and Mobile Loyalty, creating true omnichannel processing capabilities and now provides over 30 unique products to merchants of all sizes. Business revenue has grown significantly in the last 2 years and as such we are expanding into even more products, markets and geographies and are hiring people at all levels.
 
Main purpose of the job:
 
•   You have notable leadership experience and can mentor and teach your team in a positive, proactive, Agile manner.
•   Design and develop SDK for Fintech products using JavaScript
•   API integrations in SDK with backend service
•   Experience writing automated unit tests with tools such as Jest, ts-mockito, Selenium
•   A good understanding of design principles and patterns and writing clean code
•   Experienced in working with CI/CD pipeline environments
•   A passion to improve processes, tools, methodologies & overall quality of the product
•   A solid foundation in developing and maintaining enterprise software systems
•   Work closely with developers, product team, QA & BAs to define & develop the best in-class solutions
•   Work with the development manager & project teams to develop & maintain the applications in line with defined scripting standards
•   An understanding of the software product development lifecycle & test processes
 
Duties and responsibilities:
 
•   Deliver and debug SDK web-based JavaScript applications in collaboration with the Product team
•   Maintain & improve the web application frameworks, suggesting improvements where appropriate
•   Conduct code reviews and provide valuable feedback to help developers advance
Write automated unit tests and provide input for TDD test cases
•   Investigate any defects reported by stakeholders / end users & support the team to find the root cause & get the right fixes
•   Work closely with the team complete tasks and deploy new releases following an Agile release pattern
•   Attend team retrospectives & workshops to promote continuous improvement
•   Understand business requirements & processes to define solutions with continuous review of scope of all requirements following the agile methodology
•   Provide estimations on deliverable features to the delivery manager
•   Drive improvements within the development processes
 
Experience and Qualifications:
 
•   Bright, highly self-motivated and driven with a professional and positive approach
•   Ability to work independently, mentor & collaborate with team members
•   Ability to drive development forward and motivate your peers
•   Promotes a customer-centric, creative and enjoyable team environment
•   Ability to solve problems quickly and completely
•   Proactive and enthusiastic quick learner with the ability to work as part of a team
•   Ability to multi-task and stay organised in a dynamic work environment.
•   Passionate about software development, with a general thirst for technology & interest in new tools & methodologies.
•   Proactive and enthusiastic quick learner with the ability to work as part of a team.
•   Ability to adapt and to drive innovation in an evolving technical environment
•   Experience of working with Backend technologies such as nodeJS or JavaScript
•   Experience in developing SDK in JavaScript (ES6+ desirable)
•   Experience in API integrations
•   Experience in working with RESTful API use
•   Experienced writing unit tests using appropriate tools – Jest, ts-mockito, selenium
•   Experienced using version control tools e.g. Git
•   Experienced in CI tools (Jenkins, Gitlab Pipelines) from application configuration aspect.
•   Excellent hands-on experience in JavaScript (ES6+) programming language
•   Experience across the entire SDLC.
•   Experience of developing SPA in VueJS, ReactJS and Angular
•   Experience in working as full stack JavaScript developer
•   Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and/or relevant work experience.

 
Benefits (subject to local office benefits policy):
 
•   Opportunity to be part of a rapidly scaling and market leading Fintech business.
•   Flexible homeworking
•   Health and Wellbeing ethos including regular wellness sessions, fitness and nutrition and other events as well as supported by internally qualified      mental health first aiders
•   Family friendly enhanced benefits/policies
•   Pension, Healthcare, Life Assurance
•   Social events and team building
•   Celebrations
 
 
We understand the value that a diverse and inclusive working environment brings to Trust Payments. We celebrate the differences that people can bring through their cultures, backgrounds and perspectives. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or any other protected characteristic.
 
To submit your CV for this exciting Lead/Senior JavaScript Developer opportunity, please click ‘Apply’ now