Front End Development Team Lead

Proxymity does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or based on an individual’s status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Proxymity encourages application from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants

About Proxymity

Proxymity is a market leading digital investor communications platform focused on providing regulatory compliant products, focused initially on Proxy Voting and Shareholder Disclosure services. Founded in London and spun out of Citi, from the very beginning our mission focused on benefitting the whole capital markets ecosystem, rather than just one part or one player within it. This ethos is endorsed by investment from global consortium of some the industry’s most influential financial institutions.

About Us - Proxymity

Proxymity’s service offering is now a Global one, matching the needs of our custodian and broker community respectively. This is reflected by a fast-growing client base who have long desired an improved service by a trusted vendor. As a result, we are a fast-growth company and have already gone from 10 - 200+ employees in the last four years with a global footprint in London, New York, Tel-Aviv, Melbourne.

The role: 

Proxymity is looking for a talented engineering team lead who specialises in web development  who can lead the technical strategy for the development of our various UI’s across our growing product set. The role will require managing and supporting our team of web developers who are contributing to a variety of product roadmap initiatives as well as contributing with hands on coding when required. This is a unique opportunity to help grow our market presence by playing a crucial role in delivering our exciting product roadmap. 

• 5 years+ experience of designing, building, & maintaining SPAs 
• 3 years+ experience of leading engineering teams and managing the performance and personal development of engineers 
• Previous experience of defining and successfully implementing web development strategy 
• Strong experience of the Angular framework including Angular Material and AG Grid 
• A strong understanding of reactive programming paradigms and practical experience of RxJS 
• A strong understanding of test driven development and practical experience of writing unit tests using Karma & Jasmine 
• An expert understanding of Javascript/Typescript and best practices especially design patterns and OOP 
• HTML5, CSS, SCSS 
• Good knowledge of REST API standards and best practices 
• Experience of ReactJS desirable but not essential 
• AWS (Cognito, Cloudfront, Lambda) desirable but not essential 

• Headspace subscription 
• Birthday off in addition to annual leave 
• Access to Absorb Learning 
• Improved family-friendly policies 
• Work your way 
• Choose your tech 
• 2 duvet days a year 
• 1 volunteer day a year 
• 4-week sabbatical after 4 years at Proxymity 
• Workation- Our Workation policy means you can work anywhere in the world for up to 45 days per calendar year. 
• Companywide parties twice a year 
• Team drinks 
• A company wins programme 
• Companywide panels on variety of subjects like diversity and inclusion, wellbeing etc. 
• A dog friendly office
• Complementary snacks and drinks in the office

To assist us with evolving our DEI efforts and ensuring our process is as inclusive as possible, we will be sending out a brief diversity and inclusion survey for you to complete if you choose to apply for this position. This will be completely anonymous and is in no way tied to your application. If you could please take a few minutes out of your day to complete this that would be much appreciated.