Senior Full Stack Engineer - React/Node (3750)

About GBG 

GBG is the leading expert in global identity and location. In an increasingly digital world, GBG helps businesses grow by giving them intelligence to make the best decisions about their customers, when it matters most. 

Every second, our global data, agile technology, and expert teams, power over 20,000 of the world's best-known organisations to reach and trust their customers. 

Why you should be@GBG

Reach

The precision of location data is critical to businesses that need to know exactly where their customers are so they can reduce failed deliveries, share great customer experiences and remove unnecessary costs. We provide the unique insight to know locations as well as the people who live there, because we understand global addresses better than anyone else.

This means our customers have confidence that their products and services will arrive in time and to the right location In the race to serve global customers, we exist to help every business in the world, reach every customer in the world. 

Trust

When a digital business grows, most customers are genuine. However, many are fraudsters who manipulate identities to gain illegitimate access. We give our customers unique insight to decide which are trustworthy and which are fraudulent, because we understand identity better than anyone else.

This means businesses can confidently onboard good customers, reward great customers and reject fraudsters. In the fight against Identity, Fraud, trust is key, so the more you can know and the earlier you know it, the better decisions you can make.

About the team

GBG’s Investigate is a world leading data visualization service that enables fraud and law enforcement investigations along with asset and debt recovery. The team behind this product are a very talented cross functional team working using agile practices to continually improve the product features and the technology that enables this.

The role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will guide architecture and design decisions within the team and deliver high-quality technical solutions to challenging business requirements, focusing on excellent customer experience. Your technical leadership will foster a DevOps culture and drive continuous delivery within a cross-functional team.

You will challenge existing technologies and processes to enhance team delivery and collaborate with stakeholders to bring ideas from concept to production. Additionally, you will review code to promote best practices, maintain and improve automated test suites, and ensure the software lifecycle is efficient and effective.

What you will do

• Support the architecture and design decisions within the team
• Deliver high quality technical solutions to challenging business requirements, with a focus on delivering an excellent customer experience.
• Promote the devops culture and drive towards enabling continuous delivery within a cross functional, autonomous team
• Challenge the status quo (technologies and/or processes) to help improve delivery within the team.
• To work closely with other stakeholders to take ideas from concept through to production ready features.
• Mentoring junior team members and providing technical leadership to navigate complex challenges will also be key aspects of your role.
• Enhance and maintain existing automated (functional and unit) test suites.
• Support the technology Centre’s of Excellence to drive up standards across the wider business

Requirements

What we're looking for

• Experience of working in agile/scrum environments and a good understanding of continuous delivery practices.
• Excellent knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript technologies specifically including the React framework but ideally including experience of Redux and D3
• Experience with Node.js is highly desirable
• Experience with data visualisation using tools such as AWS Quicksight Is beneficial
• Experience of creating and maintaining modern web based user interfaces
• Good commercial awareness and the ability to identify and recommend product enhancements
• Demonstrate, and champion with others, good habits in unit testing, mocking, stubbing and test-driven design approaches. Experience with Cypress Is beneficial.
• Broad knowledge in design and architectural patterns, and excellent knowledge of OOP concepts.
• Experience of REST API design
• Must be confident using Git Source Control
• Experience with MongoDB is an advantage
• Experience with AWS, Docker and Kubernetes is an advantage
• Experience with Swagger/OpenAPI/Protobuf is beneficial
• The ability to maintain a deep knowledge of the latest languages, tools, frameworks and paradigms within the industry and experience of championing the adoption of emerging technologies.

Behaviours we'd like to see

Benefits

To find out more

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing fair opportunities for everyone regardless of age, gender, race/ ethnicity, sex, religion, age, nationality, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits. Everybody is welcome and our inclusion and diversity programme, be/yourself, is designed to ensure that you can thrive. Please inform your GBG Talent Attraction Partner if you require any reasonable adjustments to the interview process.

To chat to the Talent Attraction team and find out more about our benefits and why we’re a great place to work, drop an email to [email protected] and we’ll be in touch. You can also check out our career site here.

Why not apply and make life@GBG work for you?