Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Primary Location

 MA-Boston

Full-time / Part-time

 Full-time

Employee Status

 Regular

Overtime Status

 Exempt

Job Type

 Experienced

Travel

 Yes, 5 % of the Time

Shift

 Day Job

Job Sensitivity Tier II CC@Hire/No CC@Rescreen

FedNow

Frontend UI Developer

The Federal Reserve is developing a new interbank 24x7x365 real-time gross settlement (RTGS) service with integrated clearing functionality, called the FedNow service. This service will help enable financial institutions provide their customers with the ability to send and receive payments any time, any day, and have full access to those funds within seconds.  This position is a unique opportunity to be part of a new mission-critical Federal Reserve initiative that will be transformative to the payments landscape in the United States.

Position Contributions-

In this role, you will be part of a team focused on building a modern front end build on JS/React. You’ll also be responsible for the development of a framework that allows many teams to contribute their own UI, using other JavaScript frameworks and libraries. Your passion for front end development and experience building large web-based front-end applications will allow you to help our team define our vision and establish technical best practices. This job does not have any direct reports. You have an appetite to learn, and a passion for technology, innovation, and developing new skills on evolving technologies.

Education and Experience 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent background or experience
• 3-6 years software engineering experience in a team-based environment 
• Demonstrated experience engineering software with cloud-first architectures
• 3-5 years in a UI Development role
• Experience with building and deploying solutions in Cloud
• Experience with CI/CD build tools, and DevOps processes
• Experience building, and helping customers build, high volume, mission critical applications
• Experience with Agile software engineering (Scrum, Kanban, Lean etc)
• Ideally has experience working with AWS cloud-based platforms in an enterprise environment 

Knowledge and Skills

• Must have recent development experience with 80% JavaScript having spent the past few years working as a JavaScript frontend developer
• Strong fundamentals in web technology
  • JS/HTML/CSS
  • React/Angular/Vue
  • Familiar with modern tools like node and NPM
  • Unit Test frameworks (Jest, Testing Library etc)
  • Familiar with Typescript

Nice to Haves

• Node.js Development
• Experience developing JS libraries
• Experience developing in a high secure environment
• Experience developing large scale applications
• Experience with design systems

The Federal Reserve System is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and to provide equal employment opportunities to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, genetic information, disability, or military service.

All employees assigned to this position will be subject to FBI fingerprint/ criminal background and Patriot Act/ Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) watch list checks at least once every five years.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work required of this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities or skills associated with this position or the personnel so classified. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of this position, management reserves the right to revise this or any job description at its discretion at any time.

For this job, any offer of employment is contingent upon successfully passing a two-phase security screening. The first phase consists of the satisfactory completion of a physical examination (including a drug screening), reference checks, and a security investigation consisting of credit and criminal history checks.   

The second phase, which might not be complete until after you begin working at the Reserve Bank, is an additional risk-based security screening determined by the risk rating of the position.  Depending upon the sensitivity of the position, this phase may include, and is not limited to, work and residency eligibility verification, and personal interviews with the candidate, references, and prior employers.

All applicants must have resided in the United States for at least three (3) years