Front End Developer – UI (React/TypeScript)
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Category
- Frontend
- Posted
Skills
Nice to have
- Experience migrating Angular or AngularJS applications to React.
- Experience with Solace, Kafka, Tibco EMS, Aeron or similar messaging technologies.
- Knowledge of binary messaging formats including SBE, FlatBuffers or Protocol Buffers.
- Experience working with ag-Grid or enterprise-scale data grid frameworks.
- Financial Markets or Electronic Trading experience, particularly FX.
- Experience with RFQ, RFS, Order Management or Single Dealer Platforms.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, OpenShift and containerised deployments.
Full description
Our embedded engineering teams work alongside client technology organisations, delivering modern software across electronic trading, capital markets and enterprise platforms.
We're looking for talented Front End Engineers to join our London embedded engineering team. You'll be working with a Tier 1 investment bank, helping modernise a suite of electronic trading applications by replacing legacy Angular and desktop technologies with high-performance React applications used by traders around the world.
This is an opportunity to work on technically demanding software where milliseconds matter. You'll build responsive, low-latency trading interfaces, consume live market data, optimise browser performance for high-volume streaming applications and help shape the next generation of front-office trading technology.
The Role
As a Front End Engineer, you'll build mission-critical trading applications that process and visualise real-time market data for front-office users. Working as part of a collaborative engineering team, you'll help deliver modern React applications while contributing to shared engineering standards, reusable UI components and platform tooling.
The work combines modern front-end engineering with distributed systems, messaging technologies and performance optimisation, making it ideal for engineers who enjoy solving complex technical challenges.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop and maintain high-performance React and TypeScript applications.
- Build responsive user interfaces supporting pricing, execution and post-trade workflows.
- Consume and process real-time market data using WebSockets, RSocket and messaging technologies.
- Optimise browser rendering, memory usage and application performance for large streaming datasets.
- Develop reusable UI components and shared application frameworks.
- Migrate legacy Angular and AngularJS applications onto modern React architecture.
- Collaborate closely with backend Java engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Build automated UI testing using Playwright, Cypress or similar frameworks.
- Contribute to architecture, code reviews and engineering best practices.
- Deploy applications through modern CI/CD pipelines into containerised production environments.
Requirements
Essential Skills
- Strong commercial experience with React and TypeScript.
- Experience delivering complex production front-end applications.
- Excellent understanding of browser rendering, performance profiling, memory management and optimisation.