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# Core UI / Web Platform Engineer- Global Quant Firm

- **Company:** Hft Fund
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** £200,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Unit Testing, Pair Programming, TypeScript, Web Applications, Web Platforms, WebSocket, ReactJS, Kubernetes
- **Published:** September 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/core-ui-web-platform-engineer-global-quant-firm/57373966

## About the Role

* 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

## Description

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.