Senior React Developer

Validus Risk Management Ltd.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in financial risk management is looking for a senior engineer to join their frontend development team. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams and mentoring while delivering high-quality applications using React and TypeScript. Candidates should have experience in state management and a strong understanding of UI/UX principles.

Benefits

Performance-based bonus paid semi-annually

Annual Learning and Development allowance

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of TypeScript and React.
• Experience with state management libraries like Zustand.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and testable code.

Responsibilities

• Deliver new features with meaningful test coverage for Validus applications.
• Mentor other engineers and provide code reviews.
• Improve UI and UX across the product range.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Clean Code

Test Automation

Communication

UI/UX Design

Tools

Zustand

TanStack Query

HighCharts

REST

GraphQL

CSS

Job description

Validus is looking for a talented engineer at a senior level to join our frontend development team. The frontend team is responsible for the design and development of our web applications implemented in React.

The frontend development team is part of the broader technology team working in collaboration with quants, backend and platform engineers. Our teams work together to grow our technology platform, Horizon. Horizon comprises multiple applications for trade execution, portfolio management and risk analysis for alternative asset managers in various domains, such as private equity, private debt and real estate.

Key Responsibilities :

• Deliver new features to a high standard with meaningful test coverage for Validus applications including the order management system and the risk management system.
• Work collaboratively with other teams on features spanning multiple parts of the stack.
• Mentor other engineers and provide thorough code reviews to deepen their technical expertise.
• Look to improve UI and UX across our product range to improve ease-of-use, and uphold consistency in our design principles.
• Participate in agile ceremonies, such as daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, estimation, and retrospectives.
• Challenge the current technology stack and explore new ways of doing things, such as state management or how we manage our API calls.
• Help lay the technical foundations of real-time communication between backend and frontend using WebSockets.
• Build on, and improve our implementation of Nx as a Front-end monorepo.
• Utilise Zustand and TanStack Query for state and data management, and React Router for routing.
• Work on real-time data components, such as market data in graphs using HighCharts, to keep users up to-date.
• Strong TypeScript knowledge.
• Strong React knowledge.
• Experience with state management libraries, such as Zustand.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable and testable code.
• Experience with writing automated tests and testing frameworks like Vitest and Playwright.
• Experience with designing clean APIs using architectural styles like REST and GraphQL.
• Ability to implement beautiful styles using CSS.
• Ability to take ownership of work independently.
• Good communication skills working in a cross-discipline environment

Preferred Qualifications / Experience :

• Experience with financial risk management software or platforms.
• Company and personal performance-based bonus paid semi-annually. (Eligibility to join scheme following 6 months service)
• Annual Learning and Development allowance.

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