Senior Frontend Developer

About Elinvar

Elinvar offers asset and wealth managers the digital B2B2C platform for their business: Comprehensive, digital, and customized for each partner’s business model. As part of its comprehensive service portfolio, Elinvar includes “plug and play” state-of-the-art API management for third parties, including customer identification (KYC processes), market data and communication providers. Partners profit from the combination of leading technology and the functional expertise of a licensed portfolio manager. The platform’s microservices architecture ensures Elinvar’s partners sustained competitiveness through fast adaptability and continuous optimization.

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Position

• Being responsible for the frontend development and design of a new exciting product
• Independently choosing the best approach and frameworks
• Creating a responsive UI design and integrate your code with the backend development team
• Working together with a team of excellent engineers and product managers
• Sharing your knowledge and experience with the team
• Working in a growing team with flat hierarchies
• Wiliness to learn and interest in user interactions and user experience

Your qualification

• At least 3 years of relevant experience in frontend development with HTML5 and CSS3
• Vast domain knowledge in Javascript including modern frameworks, libraries, and best practices
• Experience with React, Webpack, Babel and a testing framework like e.g. Jest
• You are passionate about functional programming and ideally, you have some experience with a functional language apart from Javascript
• Prior experience with source control tools – Git, Github, Gitlab
• You love working in agile teams, JIRA and Confluence are no strangers to you
• Good communication skills, high proficiency in English, German language skills are a plus

What we offer

• Based in Berlin, Elinvar is the comprehensive, digital and customized solution for wealth managers
• Our partners manage billions and expect excellence. We empower employees to reshape finance and look for talented and dedicated people
• Our co-founders share tremendous industry expertise and together with the team are dedicated to ensuring Elinvar’s long-term success
• We believe hard work and success deserve to be celebrated – both in and out of the office

About the technical stack: the platform consists of dozens of microservices which are mainly based on Java 8. They communicate through Kafka and a GraphQL. Data is stored in PostgreSQL and Couchbase. The services are running in Docker containers on three AWS data centers in a high availability mode, managed by Kubernetes. The frontend is based on React.js. We are using GitLab for source control and continuous integration. The development process is based on Scrum with 2-week sprints.

Additional details

Communication and all issues related to the position are curated by the recruitment partner of Elinvar.