Front-End Software Engineer (Hybrid)

The Role

This is a unique opportunity to join the Fastmarkets Technology Team to help continue grow our technology and build a highly skilled team that will enable us to accelerate our product delivery and scale our business. The Technology team at Fastmarkets develop, enhance and support our flagship digital platform, serving global customers with critical data, news and analytics in the commodities markets we serve. We make this data and intelligence easily accessible though multiple channels including web, desktop, API, Excel and mobile iOS and Android applications, enabling customers to integrate our digital offering into their business workflows. 

The Front-end Engineer is a full-time position working within a Scrum team reporting to the Engineering Manager. In this technical role, the Engineer will be working as part of a global a team of other Software Engineers, Business Analysts and Product Managers to successfully develop and deliver new features. This includes contributing to major projects that make a difference to Fastmarkets customers both in our existing markets such as metals, forest products and agricultural commodity sectors. 

Working closely alongside the Digital Product team, the Engineer will be principally working within an expert group such as Customer Experience, Platform Services, News, Prices, Market Data and Analytics and from there develop knowledge across all dimensions of the Fastmarkets platform, enabling them to be equipped with both business and technical expertise to tackle Fastmarkets’ most exciting business challenges. 

For our front-end applications, our technical stack principally Angular and TypeScript. On the back-end, our technical stack is .NET and cloud infrastructure is Azure and we seek to use the latest and greatest relevant technologies in our work. 

PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES 

Software Design and Development 

• Implementation of technical solutions for new features and product enhancements 

• Work with User Experience experts and Web Designers to provide well designed customer focused solutions. 

• Adhere to sound software engineering design principles; design patterns, SOLID code etc. 

• Ensuring solutions are developed to be scalable, flexible, resilient and secure  

• Support the ongoing maintenance of existing Fastmarkets software 

Quality Management 

• Ensure code is well structured, clean, readable, testable, and efficiently written 

• Ensure code is reviewed, engineering standards are maintained and strive to continually drive standards up 

• Ensure appropriate automated and manual tests for new features are designed and implemented 

• Ensure appropriate documentation is maintained 

Leadership and Collaboration 

• Participating in and contributing to team meetings and stand ups, bring in new ideas 

• Working collaboratively with other engineers, product developers and business analysts  

• Helping to resolve support issues where appropriate