React Js Developer

**React JS Developer**

Pawnbroking may not be at the top of everyone’s list for their next career move. But, perceptions can be deceiving and there’s a lot more to us than meets the eye.

We’ve been around for a long time (over 125 years) and have built a reputation as a community based financial services provider. In fact, we are the largest pawnbroker in the UK. We’re also a major high street retailer with a presence in over 260 high streetsand are growing our e-commerce and social commerce focus.
We offer exciting challenges and the ability to build your career in a supportive environment that encourages growth and embraces diverse thinking.

**Job Purpose**
- As a great communicator, this role will develop, build and maintain the migration of complex existing systems and flows to new high-performing enterprise solutions for H&T. Engaging with business owners throughout the lifecycle of a requirement, from conceptthrough to delivery.
- Demonstrates excellent time management, planning, documentation and delivery skills
- Providing on-going development, testing and implementation of all H&T’s internally developed software
- Contribute to architecture strategy that improves code reuse, robustness and maintainability across all solutions
- Suggest and help drive/shape future improvements to the current business processes

**Key Responsibilities**
- Take responsibility for web and mobile development lifecycle through specification, development, testing and delivery
- Liaising with business owners and assisting in the definition of requirements and solutions through to delivery and support handover
- Maintain complete and accurate defect logs, updating as required during development
- Ensure all source code is maintained correctly
- Ensure that business logic is maintained and implemented with every development, challenging quality, and logic with business owners to deliver robust and efficient end-user and performant experiences for all new development and updates
- Make recommendations for system enhancements and architectures
- Be a thought leader contributing to solution generation and acting as a mentor to less experienced team members
- Be creative in solution generation looking and thinking outside the constraints provided challenging the status quo and driving innovation within the team
- Relentless in the pursuit of quality. A seasoned debugger and fault finder
- Provide any 3rd level support to internal and external IT teams
- Follow technical direction and work with IT & Business teams to build fit for purpose solutions meeting all quality standards (including near 100%-unit test coverage)
- Follows agreed upon SDLC procedures to ensure that all information system products and services meets both explicit and implicit quality standards, end-user functional requirements, architectural standards, performance requirements, audit requirements,security requirements, and external facing reporting requirements.

**ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS**
- Good command of ReactJS with an understanding of redux, routing, AJAX, REST, hypermedia, HTML, CSS etc
- Experience with modern JavaScript coding, testing, debugging and automation techniques
- Care about performance, accessibility, and API design
- Awareness of cloud computing security practices and principles
- Experience in secure coding standards
- Experience working in a "best practices" environment (Agile, TDD, BDD, CI/CD, DevOps etc)
- Ability to troubleshoot, optimize performance and multitask
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills
- Able to triage system problems and resolve the problems
- Communicate with other teams and individuals to plan, coordinate, and seek feedback
- Dynamic and forward-thinking person
- Able to work on their own and deliver to agreed timelines
- Create tools that improve site interaction & implement UI/UX designs
- Effective communication across all levels of business on both technical and non-technical levels
- The individual should have a passion to succeed and a desire to improve both their own abilities but also the systems in use throughout H&T

**Desirable REQUIREMENTS**
- Experience working with Azure
- Experience in the financial sector
- JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps (git) and Pipelines