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# Lead Frontend Architect

- **Company:** PTR Global
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $124,800 - $133,120
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Integration Architecture, Automation of Tests, Software Quality, Software Design Patterns, Perl (Programming Language), Design of User Interfaces, Python (Programming Language), Node.Js, Object-Oriented Software Development, Software Engineering, Web Application Frameworks, Test-Driven Development (TDD), ReactJS, Cypress (Programming Language), AngularJS, Playwright, Front End Software Development, Jasmine
- **Published:** October 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/2f4f110a-eab1-48aa-a091-016a62639a38

## About the Role

Minimum 5 years of post-academic work experience with frontend solutions (Angular and/or React, nodeJS, JS frameworks)

 - Excellent written and verbal communication skills
 - Strong experience in managing User Interfaces for data intensive platforms
 - Expertise in Object Oriented Design, Design patterns, Architecture and Application Integration
 - Strong experience in architecting scalable applications that can support 1000+ users at a time
 - Comfortable spending part of the time on the trading desk to help traders, solicit feedback, and advocate for the platform once familiar with capabilities
 - Hands-on experience with distributed tech stack with modern tools of development
 - Hands-on experience with core dev-ops tooling and best practices and manage this at a platform level
 - Hands-on experience for managing large UI product from delivery, code-quality and maintenance perspective
 - Hands-on experience with automated test frameworks - Cypress, Jasmine, Karma, Playwright, Protactor etc. & Test Driven Development
 - Experience in managing the deployments and build frameworks
 - Experience in managing the large codebase/monorepos supporting development of the UI platform, with large number of developers contributing continuously to the platform.
 - Experience in building and owning common reusable components for UIs
 - Experience in collaborating with global stakeholders for product development
 - Ability to manage the UX designers and translate UX designs into actual product implementation
 - Ability to co-ordinate across large team and ensure product development per multi-year roadmap;
 - Consistent track record for successful delivery of enterprise wide platforms
 - Ability to coach and mentor the talent on development best practices with new tech stacks - frontend development and cloud esp.
 - Ability to adapt to the new developments in the UI space and to keep platform technically updated and modern.

Job Title: Application Development | Level 2 (USD) Super Function: Application Development Skill Track: Python / Perl Dev Education Level: Bachelor's Degree Experience Level: Level 2 Has a Candidate been Pre-Identified: No If Pre-Identified, please provide Candidate First Name and Last Name: (No Value)

## Description

We are developing a risk application spanning the entire Global Institutional Equity Division front office. This application presents real time and historic risk and P&L to traders and risk managers, enable drill down into risk and P&L detail, pivot the data in numerous ways, and interact with other trading tools in the front office.
The application is being built in React with a GigaSpaces middle tier. The GUI is to be highly configurable and thin, enabling a fast turnaround on new panels for different use cases.