User Experience Engineer

An international financial-services organisation is seeking an experienced UX Engineer to join its FX Pricing & Hedging team.This is a hands-on role combining user-experience design, front-end development, and user-facing documentation for an electronic foreign-exchange trading platform.You will work closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Traders, Sales teams, Support, and Engineers to turn complex trading workflows into intuitive, high-performance interfaces.Your work will help improve user productivity, reduce operational risk, and create a consistent experience across the organisation’s trading applications.Responsibilities - Design user journeys, wireframes, mock-ups, and interactive prototypes for FX pricing, trading, risk, and operational workflows.- Develop production-ready front-end interfaces using modern web technologies.- Build reusable UI components aligned with an established design system.- Integrate front-end workflows with backend services and real-time market or trading data.- Optimise interfaces for responsiveness, accessibility, browser compatibility, and performance in low-latency environments.- Partner directly with Front Office users and business stakeholders to translate requirements into effective UI solutions.- Participate in Agile ceremonies, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, design reviews, testing, and releases.- Maintain and evolve the platform design system, including component libraries, interaction patterns, layouts, typography, colours, and icons.- Produce and maintain user manuals, feature documentation, workflow diagrams, onboarding materials, quick-reference guides, and user-focused release notes.Required Experience - Senior-level experience designing UX for enterprise software applications.- Strong hands-on front-end development experience.- Background in Financial Markets, Investment Banking, Capital Markets, or a comparable trading environment.- Experience working directly with Front Office stakeholders, such as Traders and Sales teams.- Proven ability to convert complex business requirements into clear, practical user-interface solutions.- Experience documenting user-facing software functionality in a structured and accessible way.Technical Skills - Strong experience with React and/or Angular.- JavaScript, including ES6+.- HTML5 and CSS3/SCSS.- REST API integration.- Responsive UI development.- Familiarity with design systems, reusable component libraries, and accessibility standards.Financial Markets Knowledge Experience with one or more of the following is highly valued: - FX trading or electronic trading platforms.- Treasury, pricing, market data, trade-capture, order-management, or risk-management systems.- Trading workstations and real-time data environments.- FX Spot, FX Forwards, FX Swaps, and NDFs.

Required Experience - Senior-level experience designing UX for enterprise software applications.

• Strong hands-on front-end development experience.
• Background in Financial Markets, Investment Banking, Capital Markets, or a comparable trading environment.
• Experience working directly with Front Office stakeholders, such as Traders and Sales teams.
• Proven ability to convert complex business requirements into clear, practical user-interface solutions.

• Experience documenting user-facing software functionality in a structured and accessible way. Technical Skills - Strong experience with React and/or Angular.

• JavaScript, including ES6+.
• HTML5 and CSS3/SCSS.
• REST API integration.
• Responsive UI development.

• Familiarity with design systems, reusable component libraries, and accessibility standards. Financial Markets Knowledge Experience with one or more of the following is highly valued: - FX trading or electronic trading platforms.

• Treasury, pricing, market data, trade-capture, order-management, or risk-management systems.
• Trading workstations and real-time data environments.
• FX Spot, FX Forwards, FX Swaps, and NDFs.