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 don’t 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