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Front End Engineer

Napier AI
Belfast
6 months ago
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Description

Napier is a new breed of financial crime compliance technology specialist. Our AI enhanced platform – Napier Continuum – transforms compliance from legal obligation to competitive edge.

At Napier, our mission is to fight financial crime through automation & AI. We believe that by automating the detection and prevention of financial crime, we can make the world a safer place for everyone.

Collaboration, innovation and wonderful people are just some of the reasons to bring your career to Napier. Our culture is shaped by our core values that promote equality, creativity, and opportunity in everything we do.

After successfully securing a £45million investment to fuel our ongoing growth and to further invest in our AI products, we are currently building out our Tech Hub in Belfast - this is a super exciting time to join Napier in Belfast as we expand.


What you'll be doing

As aFront End Engineerin our centre of excellence, you'll be responsible for building an intuitive, responsive product. Your work will help our customers monitor their money laundering and customer risk, no matter the scale.

You will be part of a talented team working on products and experiments using modern development standards and industry best practices. You will work closely with other software engineers, UX, machine learning experts, domain experts and product managers to plan, coordinate and integrate your work.

Key responsibilities
  • Use tools like Angular, React and Go to help streamline the flow of data from platform to user, enable seamless pivots from one view to the next, and build a powerful yet easy-to-use platform. 
  • You will work on complex frontend challenges with huge sets of data and work on exciting scalability and machine learning challenges. 
  • You will work across the team, helping to design user experiences and implement responsive, high-performance state-of-the-art applications.


Do you have what it takes?

  • Front-End languages such as Angular, React, JavaScript
  • Integrating with automation frameworks such as Selenium, mabl, Playwright, Cypress
    etc
  • GraphQL, NiFi
  • Technologies & Tools – Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub
  • Module Bundlers (e.g., Webpack): Ability to set up and configure bundlers for Single Page Applications
  • Azure and AWS or GCP and data processing in cloud
  • Collaborative team player with strong (written and verbal) communication skills
  • Comfortable working with remote engineering teams and distributed delivery
    models
We’d be thrilled if you also have experience with, and are keen to grow your skills in, some of these other areas:
  • Low-code frontend development platforms such as Appian, OutSystems, MS Power Platform
  • UI performance engineering principles and tools
  • UX / User Research experience
  • CI/CD and DevOps tooling
  • Programming Languages – Scala, Kotlin, Java
  • Database and SQL development experience, especially PostGreSQL
  • Open Telemetry and related observability tools and techniques, especially Grafana
    and Prometheus


Why Napier?

  • Comprehensive private healthcare through AXA covering optical, audio & dental.
  • 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays. An additional two extra days off: we give every employee their Birthday off, and an additional wellness day too.
  • Dedicated pension plan through Aviva. 
  • Life Insurance 4x your annual salary. 
  • Enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave.
  • Income protections policy.
  • Work from anywhere for up to 1 month. 
  • Access to our employee wellbeing programme.
  • Gym membership discounts.
  • Flexibility in work schedules and locations, ensuring a work-life balance.
    • This role can be fulfilled either with a hybrid approach or fully in-office – depending on your preference.
  • An open and flexible culture that allows you to work in the best way for you. 
  • A fast-paced environment, with the ability to make a real impact on our security maturity.
  • Regular team socials, including celebrating company milestones, team socials, charity work or holiday parties. 
  • A commitment to professional growth & opportunities for training/certifications.
Please note applicants must have the right to work in the United Kingdom. We are unable to offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time.
We are compliance technology specialists. Our platform is founded on broad experience and deep expertise; and our products increase efficiency and minimise risk by successfully combining big data technologies with AI and machine learning. It all adds up to the world’s first truly intelligent compliance platform.

But tech is only half the story. Our intelligent approach is applied to underpin your policy, process and procedure, so you can focus on specific outcomes. The Napier platform is fast, scalable and easily configurable, as well as user-friendly. It rapidly strengthens your AML defences and trade compliance capabilities, while meeting your company’s compliance obligations and challenges in any sector.
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