About the Client
Our client is a premier global financial institution with a strong presence in the Hong Kong market. They are looking for a Senior Frontend Developer to join their team.
It would be a 6/12 months extendable contract.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development of high-quality, reusable frontend components using React and TypeScript to power the bank's core digital banking and wealth management platforms.
- Architect and implement complex state management solutions and asynchronous data flows to ensure seamless real-time transaction processing.
- Optimize application performance by utilizing modern techniques such as code-splitting, tree-shaking, and efficient rendering strategies to minimize latency on mobile and web.
- Ensure 100% type safety and code reliability across the frontend codebase, establishing rigorous linting, unit testing, and integration testing standards.
- Collaborate with backend engineers to define and integrate strongly-typed APIs (REST or GraphQL) that align with the bank's microservices architecture.
- Review peer code and provide architectural guidance to ensure all developments adhere to web accessibility (WCAG) and strict financial security protocols.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
- Minimum of 6+ years of frontend development experience, with at least 3 years of hands-on leadership using React in a large-scale enterprise environment.
- Deep expertise in TypeScript, including advanced types, generics, and the ability to build robust, maintainable type systems.
- Strong command of modern React features (Hooks, Context API, Suspense) and state management libraries (e.g., Redux Toolkit, Zustand, or TanStack Query).
- Proven experience with frontend testing frameworks such as Jest, React Testing Library, or Cypress to ensure "zero-defect" deployments.
- Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Git-flow, and modern bundlers like Vite or Webpack within a professional SDLC.
