User Experience Dev Engineer, SOLV GHANA, SC Ventures at Standard Chartered Bank

About The Job

Job Summary

The User Experience Dev Engineer will support the Technology Lead/ Chief Technology Officer in the building of a full technology stack as well as the design and implementation of all the experiences a user has when interacting with our digital products, such as websites, mobile apps, and software applications.
The User Experience Dev Engineer will create interfaces that are intuitive, efficient, and aesthetically pleasing, while also meeting the needs of the end users and the successful implementation of UI/UX best practices and principles across all our digital platforms.

Responsibilities

Strategy:

Support the Technology Lead/ Chief Technology Officer in driving the technical vision, strategy, direction of SOLV Ghana.

Business:

Work with the Technology Lead/ Chief Technology Officer, and partners on the technology build, vendor engineering engagements, etc to help deliver features and capabilities aligned to the business model of SOLV Ghana.

Processes:

Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications
Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code
Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications
Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
Creating wire-frames, beautiful mock-ups, functional prototypes, and help implement your designs to pixel perfection

People & Talent:

Support the development of an appropriate culture that upholds the values of SOLV Ghana.
Promote and embed a culture of openness, trust and risk awareness, where ethical, legal, regulatory and policy compliant conduct is the norm.

Risk Management:

Collaborate with all internal and external stakeholders to anticipate horizon risks that may have a significant impact on the Ventures Technology and help develop effective strategies to mitigate such risks.

Governance:

Attend relevant meetings and provide relevant reports to Senior Management and Governance/ Risk committees for the area of responsibility.

Regulatory & Business Conduct:

Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
Support the achievement within SOLV Ghana, the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.

Key Stakeholders:

Global Technology Team
Other Tech Heads
3rd party Vendors

Skills AND Experience:

Bachelor’s Degree in relevant discipline or equivalent
Ideally, 3- 6 years of experience
Responsible for translating the intent of design considering workability, viability, and performance.
Rich In-Depth Experience in tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, Typescript, HTML, and CSS
Ability to write well-abstracted, reusable UI widgets and/or components with high performance.
Passionate about Performance benchmarking, elegant pixel perfect implementation across browsers.
Abreast with latest trends and endorsing upcoming standards
Deep knowledge of Angular / React best practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience
Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other microservices while building web applications.
Exposure to Micro Front end Architecture
Contributing with back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API
Excellent communication skills, good visual design sense, in -depth experience in developing web-based applications.
You’ve excellent prototyping skills and work with tools like XD, Illustrator, Sketch and more
Formal education in Design, Interaction/UX Design