Software Engineer Front End Development Engineer I

$120,840 - $203,010/Yr

FIS - Jersey City, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

Hybrid - Jersey City, NJ

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Software Engineer Front End Development Engineer I role at FIS involves building a new financial technology platform aimed at enhancing cash management and payment solutions for large companies. This position emphasizes innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence in developing user interfaces and software applications that meet customer needs in the fintech space.

Responsibilities

• Translate complex financial requirements into clean, maintainable, scalable, and well documented code.
• Design, develop, and maintain software applications and systems that provide value to end-users.
• Implement and optimize algorithms, data usage, and cloud services for latency, availability, and cost.
• Debug and troubleshoot software issues to ensure business continuity and a high bar for end-user experience.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality, maintainability, and adherence to coding standards.
• Write unit & integration tests, implement observability, and comply with best practices for builds and deployment to ensure the quality and reliability of our platform.
• Provide live on-call support by participating in the team on-call rotation and owning production issues from root cause analysis to resolution to future prevention.
• Partner with cross-functional teams (engineering, product, design, security, compliance etc.) to bring ideas to life.
• Build and own responsive interfaces for critical user journeys.
• Build secure, robust, scalable, and performant reusable frontend components with a keen eye for usability.
• Translating designs and wireframes into modern highly responsive user interfaces.
• Set and maintain high standards of technical excellence across the team.
• Mentor junior engineers and help hire new talent to build a stronger team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent education.
• 2+ years of relevant professional experience or advanced degree such as a master's or PhD.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience leading projects from architectural design to production.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience or interest in building FinTech, payment, or banking systems.

Nice-to-haves

• 3+ years of relevant professional experience or equivalent advanced education.
• Experience building user interfaces for financial products or high scale consumer products.
• Proficiency in modern development frameworks and languages (e.g., Java, Python, Go).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with version control systems (Git).
• Experience with DevOps practices like continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
• Strong understanding of security best practices for building enterprise applications.
• Experience with frontend frameworks/languages such as React, Redux, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Experience with testing and A/B experimentation frameworks, tools, and methodologies including jest, selenium, cypress, mocha chai.

Benefits

• Opportunities to innovate in fintech.
• Tools for personal and professional growth.
• Inclusive and diverse work environment.
• Resources to invest in your community.
• Competitive salary and benefits.