Frontend Engineer

At Edward Jones, we help clients achieve their serious, long-term financial goals by understanding their needs and implementing tailored solutions. To ensure a personal client experience, we have located our 14,000+ branch offices where our more than 7 million clients live and work.

A typical branch office has one financial advisor who meets with clients face-to-face and one branch office administrator who enhances the team's ability to build deep relationships with clients. Headquarters associates in St. Louis and Tempe provide support and expertise to help U.S. and Canada branch teams deliver an ideal client experience. Edward Jones currently has more branch offices than any other financial services firm, and we continue to grow to meet the needs of long-term individual investors.

The Technology Division at Edward Jones is embarking on a digital transformation journey bringing forward new systems and processes in order to better serve our clients. We have over 34 different Technology departments that are tied to different stakeholders within our firm that are focused on bringing new ideas and championing change to their area. To join our team, we are looking for innovators, change champions, and associates who can bring their expertise to the table in order to help shape the road map of our future.

To better serve the needs of our clients, we are looking for a someone who has extensive front end experience and can provide technical leadership for front-end development at Edward Jones. Among other things, you are a key to the success of our deliverables and the personal growth and development of others.

You are the bridge between User Experience designers and developers, and enjoy facilitating collaboration between everyone. You ensure ideas are technically feasible, and that we're delivering a rich experience for thousands of branch teams and clients.

The right candidate will:

• Be comfortable mentoring multiple entry and mid-level developers
• Approach tasks with empathy and a service-oriented mindset
• Architect responsive and browser agnostic web applications
• Collaborate with User Experience designers to ensure technical feasibility and translate design vision into reality
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Optimize application performance for maximum speed and scalability
• Participate in and represent User Experience in cross functional groups across the division and firm to continually advance the firm's technology solutions and take our systems to the next level
• Advise teams on the effective use of front-end technology within our enterprise architecture tools, including methodologies, best practices, processes and standards
• Proactively seek process and technical improvements and take the initiative to communicate and implement solutions

Position Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience developing responsive and browser agnostic web applications in an enterprise environment
• 7+ years of experience with HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, Advanced JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, JSON, and REST Web Services
• 2+ years of experience with React
• Ability to use CSS extensively to create custom and rich user interfaces
• Experience leading and mentoring developers of all levels
• Experience and passion for working in an agile environment
• Java experience is a plus
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organization skills required to manage multiple efforts
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills

• FORTUNE 2020 – Edward Jones was named No. 7 on the 2020 FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® list.
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• Edward Jones Ranked No. 6 of the 100 best workplaces for millennials by Great Place to Work and FORTUNE Magazine.
• 2020 Corporate Equality Index – Edward Jones joins the ranks of 680 major U.S businesses that received top marks in the HRC Foundations 18th Annual Scorecard on LBGTQ Workplace Equality
• Edward Jones named a top company for training, ranking No. 25 on Training magazine's 2020 Training Top 125 list – the highest ranking among the financial-services industry!
• Financial services firm Edward Jones has been named one of the 2019 Best Workplaces for Parents by Great Place to Work and FORTUNE magazine. The firm ranked No. 5 on the list of 50 companies, up two spots from last year.
  • The Best Workplaces for Parents list is one of a series of rankings by Great Place to Work and FORTUNE based on employee feedback from Great Place to Work-Certified™ organizations. Edward Jones ranked No. 7 on the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work for in 2019 list, the firm’s 20th appearance on the list. The firm also was ranked the No. 1 Best Workplace in Financial Services & Insurance and the No. 6 Best Workplace for Millennials by Great Place to Work and FORTUNE.

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