Senior Front End Developer (Angular)

Company:

Mercer

Description:

Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (MMC) is the world's leading professional services firm in the areas of Risk, Strategy and People. MMC is undertaking a major transformational initiative that will disrupt how essential financial services are delivered to customers worldwide. The Blue[i] programme is revolutionising the industry by providing capabilities and functionality built on innovative and reusable components to enable the rapid and low-cost delivery of insurance solutions on a global scale.

We are now building an Engineering Team in Cluj to work alongside our teams in Dublin and across the world, leveraging the architectural & engineering standards, best practices, and processes that will guide the scaled development of the platform. We are seeking a hands-on Front End Engineer for Digital Experiences & Application Development based in the EMEA Hub in the vibrant Cluj offices.

Marsh McLennan (MMC) has established its EMEA Technology Hub in Cluj, Romania, reflecting our commitment to innovation and excellence. This hub is central to our digital strategy, addressing emerging challenges and enhancing service delivery through advanced technology solutions that empower our clients and promote sustainable growth.

This role will be a technical expert for the global team, engaged in the development and implementation of this exciting innovative, strategic technology platform. The focus area for this role will be the technical development of applications within this domain.

This is a fantastic opportunity for the right candidate to shape this critical technology initiative, working with other senior engineers around the world to deliver a large-scale Platform that will transform our business.

We will count on you to:

• Provide hands-on software engineering expertise to distributed technology teams building and maintaining Angular apps.
• Become part of a truly Agile team which is self-organizing.
• Continuously learn about new technologies and evolving best practices.
• Design, code, test and debug software modules and meet project plan goals.
• Implement projects with limited direction from senior software developers.
• Develop web components in the latest web frameworks.
• Cloud deployment of the web components via automated pipelines
• Escalate problems as appropriate.

What you need to have:

• 5+ years of experience with Angular (8x-16).
• Strong understanding of the DOM, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES5 and ES2015+) and Typescript.
• Strong experience with Node.js.
• Deep knowledge of ES6+ features and syntax.
• Significant experience working with CSS; experience with LESS, SASS, SCSS, or similar pre-processors is a plus.
• Dependency injection patterns and creating custom plugins for Angular.
• Experience with front-end frameworks, such as bootstrap, tailwind, and material.
• Experience working with JSON and REST APIs.
• Experience creating complex SPAs.
• Understanding of debugging.
• Experience testing JavaScript (Angular) code - Jasmine and Protractor preferred but not required.
• Experience with unidirectional data flow patterns (Redux, etc.).
• Experience with RxJS or other Reactive programming techniques/libraries.
• Writing Unit tests in Jasmine framework.
• Experienced with Github, along with best practices around branching strategies.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Understanding of Security and Identity Management processes, best practices, and technologies experience with OIDC, OAuth2 and Okta is advantageous.

What makes you stand out:

• Your a technical expert with personal curiosity for technology, trends and standards someone that other engineers want to work with.
• Great communication and interpersonal skills, comfortable working in a distributed environment, with an ability to form great working relationships across teams, locations, and time zones.
• You have passion for creating responsive, user-friendly web applications.
• As an application engineer you will be part of highly technical team tasked to deliver various features on R&D automation platform using latest tech stack.

Why join our team:

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work, and supportive leaders;
• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have an impact for colleagues, clients, and communities;
• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being;
• A yearly budget and the opportunity to build your flexible benefits package (up to 20% of your annual salary);
• 30+ days off (25 legal days off, 1 extra day off on your birthday, public holiday replacement days, extra buy/sell from your benefits budget);
• Performance Bonus scheme;
• Matching charity contributions, charity days off, and the Pay it Forward charity challenge;
• Core benefits - Pension, Life and Medical Insurance, Meal Vouchers, Travel Insurance

Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other less represented groups tend to only apply when they check every box. So if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single point on what is needed, please still get in touch.

Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC) is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marshmclennan.com, or follow on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh McLennan is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Marsh McLennan is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh McLennan colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.