Job Description

Senior Frontend Developer (ReactJs/Vue/Angular) or Senior Full Stack Developer

Business Unit/Function: Payment

Reports to:                       Product Development Manager

Location:                           Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia

Job type:                           Permanent

Workload:                        100%

Nature and aim of the position

As a Senior Frontend Developer, your primary responsibilities will be to develop frontend applications, and to coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving and quality product is essential.

You will be working as part of the product development SCRUM team (an UoV – Unit of Value).

Main duties and responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, support and deploy web and backend applications based on the ReactJs/VueJS/Angular technology stack.
• Research and evaluate software related technologies and products.
• Develop and write high quality coding that meets customer requirements, as well as create software documentation and update existing documentation.
• Implement best practices, standards and procedures including quality and delivery methodologies and ensure compliance with the documented software processes and procedures throughout the life cycle of software products.
• Work in an agile Team setup of 6-9 members
• Coordinate with enterprise architects, development leads and product managers to determine appropriate functionalities and implementation.
• Take an active role in improvement endeavours
• Coaching less experienced team members

Reporting and collaboration

• The holder of the position reports to a Product Development Manager.
• The holder of the position manages and works daily with UoV team
• The holder of the position collaborates with the other developers, QA testers and Business Units

Key competencies

• Minimum 8+ years of experience in a professional software development work environment
• Hands-on experience within agile software development methodologies (ideally Scrum) in a multi-division processing company (Jira, Confluence)
• Payment industries experience a strong plus (credit card, merchant processing, banking, financial services etc)
• Excellent understanding of ReactJs/VueJs/Angular frontend framework.
• Excellent in other frontend framework knowledge will be a plus.
• Excellent in web technologies such as HTML, cascading style sheets (CSS), jQuery, javascript and typescript.
• In-dept experience designing API’s (SOAP/REST) and implementing services based on it
• Experience with Testing and CI: TDD, BDD, Jenkins, unit testing/functional/Integration testing
• Strong understanding of Software Design patterns and Enterprise Design pattern
• Strong SQL and NoSQL skills.
• Familiar in one of the source code version controls – BitBucket, Gitlab, Github
• Prior usage and experience in backend technologies: Spring Boot or Nodejs
• Understanding microservices design principles behind a scalable application
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Knowledge in ISO8583 and ISO20022 will be a plus.

Preferable skills and competencies

• Demonstrates a strong customer orientation - actively seeks innovative ways to improve processes, products, and user experience
• Proven ability to quickly learn new applications, processes, and procedures
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to effectively collaborate with others to reach mutually agreeable outcomes
• Ability to work independently as well as with a team.
• Possess a "can do" attitude and positive outlook, minimizing negative behaviours
• Ability to communicate effectively in a multicultural, multinational environment and mobilize cross-functional high-performance teams
• Knowledge of credit/debit card transaction processing, including online/offline transaction processing and back-end clearing/settlement, is essential
• Fluent in English

Education and qualifications

• Computer Science or Engineering degree or relevant work experience
• Solid understanding of Agile (SCRUM) development processes

Experience

• 8+ years of experience in a similar software development position
• Experience in payment/finance industry will be an added advantage

Job Requirements