Technical Architect (Front-End)

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Nutmeg is Europe's leading Digital Wealth Manager, but we don't want to stop there! We're in the middle of building a new scalable platform to help us achieve our mission of being the most trusted Digital Wealth Manager in the world. 

We are now looking for a Front End focused Technical Architect to own the direction of the architecture for all our customer facing ‘touch-points' and our mobile apps, by implementing best practice, and working day to day with our Front-End and Mobile Tech teams

Our Engineering Department, led by our CTPO Matt Gatrell, is building out our new digital platform. The Team consists of over 70 Engineers shared across different domain teams. Each engineer has access to a clearly defined Engineering progression ladder to allow them to plan out what they need to do to progress in their chosen career path.

We are migrating our front-end away from Ruby to React, building a microservice environment using Java 8/11, and moving from Mesos/Marathon to Kubernetes. We also have an iOS app built in Swift 4, and an Android app built in Kotlin. We are building an in-house bespoke UI Design System (cross platform), for our FE clients. We are building new Restful API's, refactoring legacy code, and enabling our developers to create clear and clean pragmatic code. We've introduced Kafka, run our systems on AWS, and have built a DevOps team to provide our Engineers with the tools needed to observe their domain. We have built a strong engineering foundation for knowledge sharing with several skill shares, guilds, and open discussions running every month.

What you'll need to do:

Your first task will be to help us plan and execute the move to multi-single page applications which will allow us more flexibility

You will need to talk to lots of different stakeholders including Tech Leads, Product Managers and Senior Engineers, to collaboratively align on flexible/scalable technical/product solutions

Scope out a road-map to internationalise our platform

You will work with one of the best Mobile Tech Leads in London to further develop the reach of our iOS and Android apps

Be prepared to dive into our code base with an investigative mind to develop POC's

Present front-end application ideas to our Back-End Team, and work together to create the best-fit solution

Defining and implementing the engineering strategy.  You'll be working with the leadership team to define technology direction influenced by the business strategy

Assess the viability and value of new technologies and patterns, working to ensure we align with the business's technical aims for scalability and growth

What we are looking for:

Either experience architecting complex front-end specific solutions, or experience as a Senior Developer with strong theoretical knowledge of decomposing front-end applications

Have experience working with either our technical stack (JavaScript and React/React Redux) or equivalent Front-End Frameworks

Experience of working with APIs within a microservice environment

Be able to understand the effect of your web application solutions on the back-end

Someone who loves investigating new technologies/tools to continuously improve products

Have worked with a release pipeline that adheres to the principles of Continuous Delivery

Nice to have:

Experience working on mobile applications. Don't worry if you haven't as you will be working with our Mobile Tech Lead in London to bring you up to speed here!

Exposure to UI design solutions

Experience with B2B/white labelling solutions

Worked in a regulated industry, particularly Financial Services

Mitigated the scalability/maintainability problems of a legacy system

Involved in the expansion of a product into multiple markets

Be an active and vocal contributor to the web development community

Worked with services/applications built on an Event Driven Architecture

Inside the Nutmeg shell

We're a diverse team of fun, genuine, smart people with a common mission to shake up financial services and change the way people manage their money in an intelligent easy way.

A fintech leader located in Vauxhall, London, we work in a modern, open plan office. We use cutting edge technologies and development tools like Kubernetes and Docker. We brainstorm and work with whiteboards and post-its and collaborate across the entire business to do our jobs - awesomely. We'd say we're like a typical tech company: casual, flexible, agile, flat-structured and fast-paced. All while making sure we maintain professional (FCA-regulated) standards in everything we do.

We're passionate and motivated and take pride in providing a great experience for our customers and empowering generations of investors. We want like-minded people to join us. As a Nutmegger, you'll be part of a tightknit, hard-working, innovative team at the top of their game, facing new challenges every day.