Salary: up to £200k base

Summary

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.

Requirements
*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

NB Please don’t apply if you are a fresh graduate.

Benefits
*Competitive base salary & bonus
*Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have a significant business impact
*Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
*Substantial benefits package, including private medical, paid parental leave, group life assurance & parking/cycle schemes


Contact
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch.

Andy Stirling-Martin

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