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Senior Frontend Engineer designs user interfaces, builds web applications, and optimizes digital channel performance, requires a Computer Science/IT Degree and 10+ years frontend development experience.\n\nAbout the Role\n\nThe Senior Frontend Engineer is responsible for driving the end-to-end strategy, development, and delivery of highly scalable, customer-centric user interfaces across the Group. The role holder will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining frontend applications and integrations that power resilient automation solutions across the Group’s digital platforms.\n\nWhile the role is frontend-heavy, the engineer is expected to be a versatile “T-Shaped” professional who understands backend service integration and can double up as a Full Stack Engineer to support end-to-end prototyping when required. You will lead and mentor junior engineers while championing a high-performance, outcome-driven culture focused on technical excellence, human-centered design, and commercial impact.\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\nTechnical Development & Full Stack Versatility\n\nDesign, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable frontend applications and reusable UI components.\n\nWrite clean, efficient, and secure code for various web components and services using React and Next.js.\n\nLead the evolution of existing digital channels and ensure seamless integration with internal and external partner ecosystems.\n\nDouble up as a Full Stack Engineer when needed, providing support for backend feature integration and end-to-end service prototyping.\n\nArchitect and implement efficient data fetching strategies using both REST and GraphQL to ensure optimal application performance.\n\nDevSecOps & Engineering Excellence\n\nChampion engineering best practices, including DevSecOps and CI/CD, to ensure secure and frequent delivery.\n\nWork closely with the DevOps team to automate deployment pipelines, optimize frontend build processes, and improve system reliability.\n\nParticipate in code inspection, testing, and continuous refactoring efforts to maintain enterprise-grade quality.\n\nEnsure application performance, accessibility (WCAG), and fault tolerance for all customer-facing solutions.\n\nAgile Delivery & Technical Leadership\n\nDrive Agile delivery across squads, ensuring timely and high-quality releases aligned to business outcomes.\n\nProvide clear technical direction, architectural guidance, and prioritization across multiple concurrent initiatives.\n\nLead collaboration across business, technology, risk, and compliance stakeholders to ensure seamless execution from ideation to go-live.\n\nConduct rigorous code reviews and provide mentorship to develop strong technical and commercial capabilities within the team.\n\nCommercialization & Product Innovation\n\nOwn the technical success of channel products, ensuring they are built for adoption, usage, and revenue generation.\n\nWork closely with Product Owners and Commercial Leads to leverage data and analytics for optimizing conversion funnels and customer journeys.\n\nEnsure solutions address real customer pain points through human-centered design and Lean Startup principles.\n\nQualifications\n\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or a related field (Master’s degree preferred).\n\nProfessional training or certification in Agile, Product Development, or relevant backend technologies would be an added advantage.\n\n10+ years’ experience in banking, fintech, or digital financial services.\n\nCompetencies\n\nFrontend Mastery: Expert-level proficiency in React and Next.js for building highly scalable web applications.\n\nCore Web Technologies: Mastery of HTML5, CSS3, and TypeScript.\n\nIntegrations: Deep proficiency in both REST and GraphQL APIs.\n\nServer-side: Proficiency in Node.js.\n\nVersion Control: Proficient understanding of version control using Git.\n\nBrowser Expertise: Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.\n\nFramework Versatility: Understanding of Vue and Angular is a distinct plus.\n\nDevOps & Quality: Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps practices, and automated testing tools.\n\nHow to Apply\n\nClick here to apply","description_format":"text","description_chars":4198,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-01T14:43:12Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":3,"expected_fill_days":24,"reasons":["seen:3","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-02T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/hfcb-group-senior-frontend-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/hfcb-group-senior-frontend-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-03T01:15:15Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1158,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3842,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-04T00:00:00Z"}}}