Senior Front End Engineer - Stellenbosch at MSCI Inc.

What we will offer you:

•  At MSCI we are passionate about what we do, and we are inspired by our purpose – to power better investment decisions. You’ll be part of an industry-leading network of creative, curious, and entrepreneurial pioneers. This is a space where you can challenge yourself, set new standards and perform beyond expectations for yourself, our clients, and our industry.
• Wherever you are located you will find transparent compensation schemes and employee benefits that can help ensure your financial security and health. While they vary by different locations, we offer a broad range of benefits that are part of the value you receive as an MSCI employee.
• Our flexible ways of working will allow you to maximize your potential, and we will empower you with the trust, accountability, and advanced technology to perform at your very best.
• You’ll find a purposeful approach to wellbeing to provide you with all the resources you need to be your best at work and in your personal life. Our ‘Here For You’ Employee Assistance Program is available for our employees globally, providing confidential emotional support, financial and legal advice free of charge.

Your key responsibilities:

• Use the latest CSS techniques and Angular 11+ to design, develop, and enhance the front end of our core web application in Angular.
• Design, code, and review code of new and existing product initiatives using Front-end engineering best practices.
• Understand the architecture of the current applications and maintain them.
• Meet personal and team deadlines through time management and collaboration with team members.
• Ad hoc tasks as required by the management.
• Explore and experiment with new technologies.
• Actively participate in our agile SLDC execution.

Your skills and experience that will help you excel:

• Demonstrable understanding and working experience of HTML5 and CSS3 to build sophisticated modern web front ends ideally using Angular 11+ or similar modern web development framework(s).
• Strong UI/UX knowledge, JavaScript/TypeScript skills.
• Demonstrable grasp/practical experience with OOP concepts, SOLID principles, and ability to design highly scalable code.
• Demonstrable understanding and experience working with RESTful APIs.
• Demonstrable understanding of and participation in establishment and/or maintenance and execution of CI/CD processes.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, Finance, or equivalent and relevant job experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. The ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with all project team members and stakeholders (locally and globally) is essential.
• Experience with Angular, SASS/SCSS, and CSS naming systems like SMACSS and BEM is desirable.
• Experience or knowledge with Azure, Docker Containers, and Kubernetes is desirable.
• Experience or knowledge of the Agile methodologies.
• Experience in the Financial Services Domain