Research Driven Recruitment

Discover the best vacancies in tech and finance, filter results or use our search tool to find your perfect match. If you would prefer to talk to us, please get in touch.

Latest Job Listings

Core UI / Web Platform Engineer

Global Quant Firm

London

Posted 3 Wks Ago

Salary: up to £200k base

 

Summary

Leading HFT fund looking for an experienced Front End Developer to join their core UI platform team.

This is a high impact role where your primary focus is building and extending the core UI platform, using it to develop business-critical applications. You’ll collaborate extensively with a wide variety of teams, helping them use the platform to build their own applications. You’ll aim for simplicity where possible, but you’ll also build cutting-edge UIs when required.

Technology is prized by the traders as crucial to their continued success. Unique in their field, this global firm combines the lively, positive spirit of a start-up with the stability of a longer-established player.

The successful Web Platform Engineer will be comfortable within the modern web development environment (tools & techniques), with a deep empathy for the developers who’ll use your platform, always looking for improvements to increase their productivity.

Requirements

  • Minimum 4+ years of professional experience building web-based UIs
  • Extensive experience with React, Typescript, WebSocket protocols, REST, and UI unit-testing
  • Very comfortable working in a highly agile, collaborative methodology (sprints, pair-programming, testing, estimation, etc.)
  • Bonus points for Kubernetes, Helm, containers, CI/CD pipelines and/or experience working in trading / finance

NB Please dont apply if you are a fresh graduate.

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary & bonus
  • Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have a significant business impact
  • Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
  • Substantial benefits package, including private medical, paid parental leave, group life assurance & parking/cycle schemes