Senior React Developer

Validus Risk Management; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading risk management firm in Toronto is looking for a talented Senior Frontend Engineer to join their team. The role involves developing web applications in React, mentoring engineers, and enhancing UI/UX across products. Candidates should have strong TypeScript and React knowledge, along with experience in state management libraries. Competitive salary and a performance-based bonus are included in the compensation package.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Personal performance-based bonus

Annual Learning and Development allowance

Qualifications

• Ability to implement beautiful styles using CSS.
• Experience with writing automated tests and testing frameworks.
• Experience with designing clean APIs.

Responsibilities

• Deliver new features to a high standard with meaningful test coverage.
• Mentor other engineers and provide thorough code reviews.
• Look to improve UI and UX across product range.

Skills

Strong TypeScript knowledge

Strong React knowledge

Experience with state management libraries

Ability to write clean, maintainable and testable code

Good communication skills

Tools

Zustand

Vitest

Playwright

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.
• Use HandsOnTable to display large amounts of data, whilst improving performance to give the user an “excel” like feel within the browser.

Required Qualifications

• 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.

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Company and personal performance-based bonus paid semi-annually. (Eligibility to join scheme following 6 months service)
• Annual Learning and Development allowance.