The User Experience Dev Engineer will support the Technology Lead/ Chief Technology Officer in the building of a full technology stack as well as the design and implementation of all the experiences a user has when interacting with our digital products, such as websites, mobile apps, and software applications. The User Experience Dev Engineer will create interfaces that are intuitive, efficient, and aesthetically pleasing, while also meeting the needs of the end users and the successful implementation of UI/UX best practices and principles across all our digital platforms.

Responsibilities

Strategy

Support the Technology Lead/ Chief Technology Officer in driving the technical vision, strategy, direction of SOLV Ghana.

Business

Work with the Technology Lead/ Chief Technology Officer, and partners on the technology build, vendor engineering engagements, etc to help deliver features and capabilities aligned to the business model of SOLV Ghana.

Processes

• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
• Creating wire-frames, beautiful mock-ups, functional prototypes, and help implement your designs to pixel perfection

People & Talent

Support the development of an appropriate culture that upholds the values of SOLV Ghana. Promote and embed a culture of openness, trust and risk awareness, where ethical, legal, regulatory and policy compliant conduct is the norm.

Risk Management

Collaborate with all internal and external stakeholders to anticipate horizon risks that may have a significant impact on the Ventures Technology and help develop effective strategies to mitigate such risks.

Governance

Attend relevant meetings and provide relevant reports to Senior Management and Governance/ Risk committees for the area of responsibility.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Support the achievement within SOLV Ghana, the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.

Key stakeholders

• Global Technology Team
• Other Tech Heads
• 3rd party Vendors

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant discipline or equivalent
• Ideally, 3- 6 years of experience
• Responsible for translating the intent of design considering workability, viability, and performance.
• Rich In-Depth Experience in tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, Typescript, HTML, and CSS
• Ability to write well-abstracted, reusable UI widgets and/or components with high performance.
• Passionate about Performance benchmarking, elegant pixel perfect implementation across browsers.
• Abreast with latest trends and endorsing upcoming standards
• Deep knowledge of Angular / React best practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience
• Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other microservices while building web applications.
• Exposure to Micro Front end Architecture
• Contributing with back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API
• Excellent communication skills, good visual design sense, in -depth experience in developing web-based applications.
• You’ve excellent prototyping skills and work with tools like XD, Illustrator, Sketch and more
• Formal education in Design, Interaction/UX Design

About SC Ventures

SC Ventures (“SCV”) was established in 2018 with the purpose of “Rewiring the DNA in Banking” by bringing three distinct areas together:

• The eXellerator Lab, enabling innovation at large in the Bank by supporting intrapreneurs and their ideas, collaborating with fintech’s through the SCV Fintech Bridge and engaging with clients and co-creation ideas
• The Investment Fund (“Fund”), tasked to acquire minority stakes in fintech companies (“fintechs”) whose technology has been successfully validated in the Group
• Venture building, with the objective of exploring new business models (“ventures”), in the way it engages existing new customers and markets.

There are c.65 team members (excluding individual ventures), including dedicated colleagues from the Group’s support functions, based in Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Nairobi, London and San Francisco.