AO/Front-End Web Developer

Company Description

Alliance Bernstein is a leading global investment management firm. Through high-quality research and diversified investment services, we serve institutions, individuals, and private wealth clients in major markets worldwide. Our ambition is simple: to be our clients' most valued asset-management partner.

With over 4,400 employees across 51 locations in 25 countries, our people are our advantage. We foster a culture of intellectual curiosity and collaboration to create an environment where everyone can thrive and do their best work. Whether you're producing thought-provoking research, identifying compelling investment opportunities, infusing new technologies into our business, or providing thoughtful advice to clients, we're looking for unique voices to help lead us forward. If you're ready to challenge your limits and build your future, join us.

Job Description Summary

We are seeking a Nashville based Front-End Web Developer to join our Private Wealth Team in Global Technology & Operations.

Team/Group Description

The Private Wealth Development team supports the Private Wealth Sales, Wealth Management, Marketing and Operations departments.

Role Description

This position will be responsible for analyzing, designing, developing, deploying, and supporting applications to enhance the business/operational processes in use by Private Wealth clients, advisors, associates, and operations. The ideal candidate must have experience in HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. Knowledge of SASS, Svelte/Sveltekit, Webpack, Vite, Material Design, NodeJS, .NET/C#, and SQL is highly desired. The candidate must be a natural problem solver, have strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Applications and business or enterprise functions the role supports

The Private Wealth Technology team develops Web applications that help our clients stay informed of their investments and support our sales teams in every aspect of their interactions with clients. The team develops and supports Web, Windows, and Mobile applications as well as the APIs utilized by these and other internal systems.

Key job responsibilities include, but are not limited to

Designing, developing, deploying, and supporting proprietary applications utilizing a diverse set of leading-edge technologies.

The team's applications are large and complex. Your primary responsibilities vary from: (1) develop new user-facing features; (2) build reusable code and libraries for future use; (3) ensure technical feasibility of UI/UX designs; (4) optimize application for maximum speed and scalability; (5) collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.

What makes this role unique or interesting (if applicable)?

As a member of the Private Wealth Development team, you will work with state-of-the-art technologies to create applications that solve complex financial issues for clients and support advisors and their teams in their interactions with clients. This integration of technical and financial skills makes the position both highly challenging and interesting.

Professional development value of this role (i.e., what learning and professional growth does the role offer the candidate?)

Change is the only constant for the team, so the ideal candidate must welcome change and have an insatiable appetite for learning. All members of the team are given unrestricted access to the leading online training providers, including Pluralsight, and all team members are required to complete a minimum number of hours of training per year.

Job Qualifications (The ideal candidate should have the following)

Qualifications, Experience, Education:

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field
• At least 3 years of professional experience
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Skills:

Required:

• HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript
• Strong understanding of software development life cycle in agile model
• Domain expertise in SCSS, enterprise level architecture, specificity, and BEM conventions.
• Strong knowledge of solving browser/device edge cases and issues and creativity to work around them
• Understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
• Understanding of code versioning tools, like Git
• Experienced with a JavaScript framework (Svelte, React, Vue, etc.,)
• Strong understanding of accessibility standards

Desirable:

• C#, SQL, REST
• Working with APIs
• Unit Testing and Linting
• Node versioning manager
• Google's Material Design principles
• Experience with StorybookJS
• An eye for design, and some experience with creating prototype in Figma to collaborate closely with UX team
• Browserstack, webpack code splitting, chrome debugging tools
• Ability to work on web core vitals and how to mitigate issues

Nashville, Tennessee