Front End Software Engineer- World-Leading Prop Trading Fund

Exciting opportunity to work at a tech-centric prop trading fund which trades a wide range of financial products, with offices across the globe. Looking for an experienced Front End Engineer who can design and implement the next generation of browser-based tools to operate the trading infrastructure.

Building for expert, highly engaged users, you’ll be expected maintain a high UX bar, while ensuring the tools you create are flexible and powerful enough to meet users’ needs. On top of developing individual tools, they’re looking for someone who can find opportunities to create libraries & abstractions that capture common interaction idioms, and who can sharpen development practices and firm-wide approach to UI development.

The successful candidate will be passionate about front-end engineering and user-interface design. This role offers the opportunity to work in multiple parts of the stack, including front-ends, back-ends, middleware, and databases.

• Strong background in web technologies, with browser fundamentals like CSS and the DOM, and an understanding of the principles of UI frameworks like Vue, Angular, React, and Flutter
• Practical experience building sophisticated UIs in the browser. We’re looking for someone who loves the detailed polishing that’s needed to build elegant and highly usable Uis
• Excellent communication skills in English, able to interact with colleagues with varying levels of technical ability

Desirable:

• Keen interest in the typed functional programming approach to UI development, plus experience with Elm, ReasonML, Purescript, Typescript, etc.

• Market-leading salaries
• Generous benefits package, including physical & mental health benefits, excellent holiday entitlement, significant parental leave, retirement benefits, private on-site gym
• Focus on learning & development with tuition reimbursement
• Recreation spaces with breakfast, lunch, snacks and treats