React Developer

Insight Global
New York, NY, United States
27 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
7 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

JavaScript (Programming Language) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Artificial Intelligence Static Program Analysis Code Review Programming Tools Event-Driven Programming Performance Tuning TypeScript Workflow Management Systems ReactJS System Availability
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Backend Front End Software Development

Job description

On a day to day basis, this React Developer will partner closely with traders, portfolio managers, and engineers to understand trading workflows and translate them into intuitive, high performance UI experiences. They will contribute to application and workflow design, build new features and enhancements, integrate with APIs and event driven services for real time updates/monitoring, and ensure the UI is scalable, resilient, and production ready. The role includes collaborating with global engineering teams (NY + Bengaluru), participating in code reviews, supporting production issues for business critical systems, and leveraging AI assisted development tools (coding copilots, test generation, code analysis) to improve speed and quality.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of front end development experience, most relevantly with React

  • Experience supporting front office trading platforms or building UIs for derivatives trading (options, futures, swaps, structured products)

  • Hands on experience building production grade, workflow heavy user interfaces in React

  • Strong proficiency in TypeScript / JavaScript and modern front end patterns (component architecture, state management, performance tuning)

  • Experience building real time user interfaces (live monitoring, streaming updates, responsive dashboards)

  • Solid understanding of APIs and integration patterns between UI and distributed backend services

  • Ability to work directly with business stakeholders and be empathetic to users’ needs (traders/PMs) and translate requirements into working software * Exposure to asset management / financial services technology environments

  • Experience participating in production support for high availability, business critical applications

About the company

Insight Global is seeking a React Developer to join one of our largest financial services clients and sit in NYC onsite 5 days/week. This person will be joining the Asset Management Trading Technology team, building mission critical platforms that support real time trading, risk, and investment decision making across global markets. This individual will be focused on building and enhancing user facing trading applications that support derivatives trading workflows (e.g., creating and improving screens/tools traders use to place, monitor, and manage orders).

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