Senior Software Engineer - Web/Front End (3623)

***This role is aligned to Mexico City, please only apply if you are based in/near to Mexico City***

About GBG

GBG is the leading expert in global identity and location. In an increasingly digital world, GBG helps businesses grow by giving them intelligence to make the best decisions about their customers, when it matters most.

Every second, our global data, agile technology, and expert teams, power over 20,000 of the world's best-known organisations to reach and trust their customers. 

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Why you should be@GBG

• We make the world a safer place
• We trust each other and win together
• We are local experts in a global business
• We want you to be yourself
• We grow when you grow

The Team

We build and own the delivery of the customer portal in GBG’s Documents and Biometrics portfolio; part of a solution that helps with document verification and digital trust.

We are a cross functional team who pride ourselves on our collaborative spirit. We value every team member’s expertise, and each member contributes to our collective success. Our daily work follows agile methodologies, placing a strong emphasis on automation and continuous improvement.

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack), you will:

• Be an individual contributor; actively participating in engineering tasks to drive the team towards achieving sprint goals and deliverables. You will design, develop, implement, and thoroughly document complex software solutions
• Collaborate with team leads, product owners, software engineers and stakeholders to define and prioritise technical requirements and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Support continuous integration practices including Test Driven Development
• Troubleshoot and debug complex software issues, employing advanced problem-solving techniques to identify and implement effective solutions.
• Mentor and coach others to help them be the best they can be.
• Proactively identify trends to address problems before they become incidents.
• Conduct comprehensive code reviews, providing valuable feedback to maintain code quality and consistency.
• Participate in Agile activities, ceremonies, and planning with your team.
• Contribute to the evolution of broader architectural patterns and practices across our entire Documents & Biometrics product portfolio, as well as ensuring alignment to these.
• Raise the bar for technical excellence, performance, and reliability.
• Care about agility as much you care for scalability and availability. Continuous deployment keeps us focused on incremental releases.

What you will do

• Be responsible for leading the design, development, and implementation of complex web solutions using Javascript technologies such as react and angular within our Identity Verification software.
• Collaborate with team leads, product owners, software engineers and stakeholders to define and prioritise technical requirements and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Support continuous integration practices including Test Driven Development
• Troubleshoot and debug complex software issues, employing advanced problem-solving techniques to identify and implement effective solutions.
• Coach and mentor junior team members supporting their growth and ensuring they have the necessary guidance in their roles.
• Proactively identify trends to address problems before they become incidents.
• Conduct comprehensive code reviews, providing valuable feedback to maintain code quality and consistency.
• Participate in Agile activities, ceremonies, and planning with your team.
• Shape documentation.

What We're Looking For

Tech Stack Overview

• We utilize Microsoft .NET C# for robust and scalable back-end services.
• Our platform is hosted on Amazon AWS, ensuring reliability and scalability.
• We leverage AWS Aurora MySQL for high-performance and secure data management.
• Currently, our front end is built with Angular, with plans to transition to React.

We are looking for a deep understanding and proficiency in the above, plus

• Strong experience in Amazon AWS technology stack or a comparable cloud platform.
• Proficiency with OOP, SOLID principles, and design patterns.
• Unit testing with nUnit, xUnit or similar framework.
• Experience in the building and deployment of REST APIs and Microservices
• CI/CD using YAML pipelines and automated build, testing and deployment utilising Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or equivalent technology.
• Experienced in working in an Agile / SCRUM environment.

The core qualities that will help you thrive in this role are:

• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to adapt your style to different audiences.
• A passion for promoting engineering excellence in those around you through coaching and guiding individuals, and the team, to influence change.
• An unwavering "can-do" attitude
• An appetite and ability to quickly comprehend complex technical challenges
• Proficiency in identifying and resolving intricate technical issues using a logical and analytical approach.
• The ability to think strategically and align technical solutions with business objectives.
• A commitment to continuous learning and professional development, with a curiosity for exploring new technologies, tools, and methodologies. You stay updated with industry trends and advancements to drive innovation and maintain technical relevance.

Behaviours we'd like to see

Next steps

Click here to see more about what’s important to us, including our hybrid and flexible work policy, our commitment to ESG, I&D and much more.

To chat to the Talent Attraction team and find out more about our benefits, drop an email to [email protected] and we’ll be in touch!

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