Front End / UI Engineer, Associate

Employer: DWS Group

Title: Front End / UI Engineer, Associate

Location: Madrid

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About DWS:

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Join us at DWS, and you can be part of an industry-leading firm with a global presence. You can lead ambitious opportunities and shape the future of investing. You can support our clients, local communities, and the environment.

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As investors on behalf of our clients, it is our role to find investment solutions. Ensuring the best possible foundation for our clients’ financial future. And in return, we’ll give you the support and platform to develop new skills, make an impact and work alongside some of the industry’s greatest thought leaders. This is your chance to achieve your goals and lead an extraordinary career.

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Team / division overview

We are looking for a mid-to-senior Frontend / UI Developer to join the Risk Navigator technology team and help lead the UI development for our Risk modernization journey. This is an opportunity for a developer with strong JavaScript, TypeScript, and React experience, a good eye for design and usability, and the ability to work across the stack with Java and Spring-based backend services.

You will join a collaborative, international team that values ownership, curiosity, quality, and open communication. We work closely across business, technology, architecture, testing, and platform teams to modernize Investment Risk capabilities and create intuitive, reliable, and scalable user experiences. As a key member of the team, you will help shape the frontend architecture, improve the look and feel of the application, and turn complex risk workflows into clean, practical, and user-friendly interfaces.

Your responsibilities –

As an Front End / UI Engineer, Associate, you will:

• Lead and contribute to the development of modern, responsive, and maintainable user interfaces using JavaScript, TypeScript, React, HTML, CSS, and related frontend technologies.

• Take a leading role in shaping the UI for Risk modernization, including frontend architecture, component design, usability, performance, accessibility, and consistency across the application

• Work closely with business analysts, product stakeholders, developers, testers, and architects to translate complex Investment Risk workflows and requirements into intuitive, efficient, and user-friendly solutions.

• Collaborate with backend developers and contribute where appropriate to Java and Spring-based services, including API design, integration, data exchange, troubleshooting, and end-to-end solution validation.

• Create reusable UI components, patterns, and development practices that improve delivery speed, quality, maintainability, and the overall user experience.
• Support the full delivery lifecycle, including refinement, design discussions, implementation, peer reviews, testing, release preparation, deployment support, and post-release improvements.
• Act as a collaborative technical owner for the UI area by sharing knowledge, guiding development choices, supporting colleagues, improving engineering standards, and contributing to a culture of learning, accountability, and continuous improvement.

We are looking for

• 5+ years of professional software development experience, with strong hands-on experience in modern frontend development using JavaScript, TypeScript, React, HTML, CSS, and related tooling.
• Strong understanding of React application architecture, component design, state management, routing, testing approaches, performance optimization, and maintainable frontend code structures.
• Good design sense and the ability to create clean, intuitive, and user-friendly interfaces for complex business applications; experience working with design systems or reusable UI patterns is a plus.
• Backend development experience with Java and Spring or Spring Boot, including REST APIs, service integration, data exchange, debugging, and collaboration on end-to-end technical solutions will be a plus.
• Experience integrating frontend applications with backend services, APIs, authentication flows, data models, and asynchronous processing patterns.
• Practical experience with development tools and engineering practices such as Git, CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, automated testing, agile delivery, and secure software development.
• Ability to understand complex business domains, ask good questions, and work closely with analysts and users to create practical technology solutions.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the willingness to work closely with colleagues across locations and contribute actively to shared designs, decisions, and delivery outcomes.
• High level of ownership, curiosity, quality mindset, and willingness to take responsibility for improving the UI, engineering standards, and the way the team works together.
• Experience guiding other developers, reviewing frontend designs, introducing reusable patterns, or taking technical leadership for a UI workstream is a strong advantage.
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken; German is a plus.
• Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.

What we’ll offer you:

At DWS we’re serious about diversity, equity and creating an inclusive culture where colleagues can be themselves and it’s important to us that you enjoy coming to work - feeling healthy, happy and rewarded. At DWS, you’ll have access to a range of benefits which you can choose from to create a personalised plan unique to your lifestyle. Whether you’re interested in healthcare, company perks, or are thinking about your retirement plan, there’s something for everyone.

DWS’ Hybrid Working model is designed to find the right balance between in-person collaboration and engagement in the office, which is core to our working culture, and working from home. Each business group varies on the split between time spent in the office and at home, but this will be discussed and made clear as part of your application and interview process. We will continue to review and evolve our working environments and methods to ensure that we are working in the best way possible for our people.

If you require any adjustments or changes to be made to the interview process for any reason including, or related to a disability or long-term health condition, then please contact your recruiter and let them know what assistance you may need. Examples of adjustments include providing a change to the format of the interview, or providing assistance when at the DWS office. This will not affect your application and your recruitment team will discuss options with you.

Our values define the working environment we strive to create – diverse, supportive and welcoming of different views. We embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds to drive innovation. We build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage our people to develop to their full potential. Talk to us about flexible work arrangements and other initiatives we offer.

We promote good working relationships and encourage high standards of conduct and work performance. We welcome applications from talented people from all cultures, countries, races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, beliefs and generations and are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.

We at DWS are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, one that embraces dialogue and diverse views, and treats everyone fairly to drive a high-performance culture. The value we create for our clients and investors is based on our ability to bring together various perspectives from all over the world and from different backgrounds. It is our experience that teams perform better and deliver improved outcomes when they are able to incorporate a wide range of perspectives. We call this #ConnectingTheDots.