Assistant Director - Front End Engineer (React.js and TypeScript) - UK wide

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Department

In Buy-side Solutions, we serve investors, consultants and asset managers by helping them make better decisions. Our next-generation buy-side technology enhances customer performance, improves governance and ultimately helps win more business. Our dedicated team of sales, marketing and product management experts are passionate about delivering effective solutions to our customers.

Role/Responsibilities

• As a Front-End Developer, you would join UI engineering team engaged in greenfield development of new applications alongside reshaping the experience of an existing product suite.
• The internal Moody's title for this role would be an Assistant Director Front-End Engineer
• Develop functional prototypes using HTML, CSS & TypeScript to demonstrate creative concepts
• Coordinate with a global engineering and design team to implement UI solutions
• Plan, design, and utilise web technologies to write new and modify existing code for software enhancements and development of new products and features
• Complete documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance of software
• Partner with engineering teams to implement modern presentation techniques
• Help create and maintain documentation
• Help the team leverage and contribute to open-source technologies

This position can sit anywhere in the UK.

Qualifications

• Experience in front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, TypeScript) in context of API-driven applications
• Experience with React and other JavaScript libraries
• Strong aptitude for writing elegant code and advocate for best-in-class user experience
• We operate in a CI/CD environment therefore experience writing unit, integration tests and a coding style that enables testability is highly desirable
• Knowledge of, and experience implementing, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines is desirable

Moody's is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Candidates for Moody's Corporation may be asked to disclose securities holdings pursuant to Moody's Policy for Securities Trading and the requirements of the position. Employment is contingent upon compliance with the Policy, including remediation of positions in those holdings as necessary.