Front End Developer

Location: Bangalore, KA, IN

About Swiss Re

Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. We cover both Property & Casualty and Life & Health. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 14,000 employees across the world.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.

Key responsibilities

To design and develop high quality scalable and reusable code for Group Design System as well as innovative prototypes

To create robust, changeable, and scalable technology applications – from ideation, to prototyping to production delivery, across a green-field and existing modern applications

To help build and shape an increased engineering and delivery team culture, responsible for designing and implementing products at our technology platform with a quick iterative approach and focusing on ability to scale features and business processes

To be aware of and able to innovatively respond to the differing compliance, risk, and regulatory controls

To work closely with internal and external technology colleagues to design and implement creative solutions

To work alongside and within existing engineering teams in various initiatives running across the digital transformation unit

To share code, knowledge and best practices with other teams involved in delivery of the Platform to our customers

To support and implement technology best practice across Swiss Re while being a role model of technical and behavioural excellence

About You

You like experimenting with new technologies and testing how well they suit real needs

You are team focused, able to work in an environment of high levels of change and complexity

You think that long-term is built step by step and aren’t bothered by the uncertainty of walking new path

Professional Experience:

5+ years of Frontend Engineering experience, including working with practices such as continuous integration & deployment, DevSecOps and Agile approaches

Hands-on experience with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and TypeScript

Hands-on experience with Web components & StencilJS and modern web development frameworks (e.g. React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, Astro, Qwik)

Experience with designing and building modern applications and infrastructure in public cloud environments, NoSQL database, MQ/streaming services, containerization, application monitoring, CI/CD tooling is desirable

Knowledge of emerging technologies (e.g., AI/ML, AR/VR) is desirable

Awareness of IT security topics and trends, vulnerabilities and their remediation is desirable

Leadership Qualities:

Ability to introduce & encourage new ideas and enthuse the team to implementing these

Communicates effectively and influences across the technology community