Developer jobs in Canada

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.

• 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.

• 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

• Experience with financial risk management software or platforms.

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