Frontend Software Engineer

The Icon Payments Framework (IPF) provides institutions with faster and more cost-effective access to payments through an advanced and highly flexible payments specific platform which seamlessly integrates with core and back-office banking applications.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Frontend Software Engineer to work on unique product platform. The role will require working and creating new product modules as well as working on the UI dashboarding toolkit used internally and by clients.

About You

• Experienced frontend or full-stack Engineer, with strong TypeScript and web standards.
• SME level experience in JavaScript/TypeScript
• Working knowledge of the 12 UX laws (such as Hick's, Fitts's, Miller's and Jakob's) and when one outweighs another.
• Strong understanding of OWASP: the Top 10, the API Security Top 10 and ASVS.
• Strong understanding of API principles: REST, contracts and versioning, pagination, idempotency, error handling and least-privilege (OAuth, SAML, JWT, RBAC).
• Awareness of software supply-chain hygiene.
• Familiarity with twelve-factor principles for containerised services.
• Java and Spring Boot skills sufficient to read and change the services behind the UI.
• Experience with CI/CD, Git and signed-commit workflows.
• Agile delivery experience using Jira and Confluence.
• Clear written communication, and a self-starter who takes ownership.

What Do Our Frontend Engineers Do?

• Run discovery with BAs and PMs, and capture personas, user stories and stack-neutral requirements.
• Design and build high-fidelity prototypes on realistic data.
• Found and evolve a multiple design system: WCAG AA accessibility and Storybook.
• Make and justify design decisions using established UX principles, including choosing between conflicting ones.
• Deliver production quality code
• Work test-first where it applies, using TDD and BDD.
• Design, review and secure the APIs these tools depend on, including granular authorisation and scoping.
• Contribute to architecture, design decisions and technical discussions.
• Cutting edge agentic UX design, not just web interfaces.

Desirable skills/experience

• Backend development using Java 11+
• Experience with the Spring framework and technologies
• Experience of pushing to a node repository
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling and partial page updates.
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues
• Automation environment provisioning using Ansible
• Previous experience with real-time messaging systems
• DevOps experience gained within highly transactional software environments
• Knowledge and/or experience of Docker and Kubernetes
• Knowledge of Unix sys admin and scripting
• Knowledge of document-based data stories e.g. MongoDB