Description
React Developer - Financial Services
Are you a passionate and confident React Developer, ready to make a significant contribution working for one of the UK's fastest growing Financial Services Consultancies?
Then read on!
MHC Overview:
MHC are an award-winning IT and Business Consultancy, specialising in Change Management initiatives, which we deliver working in a collaborative way with our Clients. We are currently working on a wide variety of assignments that include some major Digital Transformation initiatives, Regulatory and Compliance Programmes and Tools adoption projects where we are providing specialist technical and business services to a client base of primarily Tier 1 Banks.
You will have the confidence and the capability to step straight into a specialist consultancy role within one of MHC's Practice areas to provide effective and efficient solutions that support our Clients' business requirements, while working constructively with senior MHC and Client managers and other staff.
What you'll do
- Build highly responsive UI components using React and Redux
- Produce high quality testable software
- Longer term aim of cross training our developers in these technologies
- Be part of a business facing team with a high visibility
- Deliver a first technology platform to support investment decision making and quantitative research
- Refine the existing investment and research platform in response to business needs
The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need
- Expertise in building Front End Single Page Applications with React and Redux
- Experience and good knowledge of common React libraries (Redux, react Router etc)
- Good knowledge and handling of common React patterns (HOC, render props, Provider pattern, Container/Presentational components etc)
- Knowledge of common React principles (immutability, pure functions, functional/class components, pure components, change detection etc)
- Extensive knowledge of Javascript (ES5 spec and up). Eg: js primitives vs objects, scopes in js, understanding of closures, function binding etc.
- General knowledge of common challenges in Front End development (eg: browser behaviour and limitations, Front End application optimisations, etc)
- Advocate of general engineering best practices (eg: domain driven code architecture, encapsulation, separation of concerns, single responsibility, clean code practices etc)
- Knowledge of common design patterns (eg: pubsub, module pattern, dependency injection etc)
- Awareness of common Front End styling paradigms (eg: CSS modules, CSS in js)
- Knowledge of general Front End tooling (particularily Nodejs and npm)
- Experience with structuring and writing unit tests
- Experience with setting up and writing end to end tests
The knowledge, experience and qualifications that will help
- Experience and interest in RxJS
- Experience with Cypress
- Experience with material ui
- Familiarity with react hooks