Front End Engineer

9fin; City Of London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology firm in London is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to develop their market-leading CLO product. This role involves working closely with designers and product owners while using technology to deliver value. Candidates should have extensive experience in React and TypeScript, alongside strong communication skills to advocate for best practices and improvements within the team.

Qualifications

• Experienced with React and TypeScript to build web applications.
• Strong communicator, able to present ideas effectively.
• Collaborates well with business colleagues and UX designers.
• Proactively identifies tech debt and improves developer experience.
• Advocates for software development best practices.

Responsibilities

• Work cross-functionally with designers and legal stakeholders.
• Create intuitive frontend interfaces for finance professionals.
• Address technical debt to bring value to the team.
• Help the team become the best in the structured credit space.

Skills

React

TypeScript

ES6

Communication

Collaboration

Tools

Jest

React Testing Library

Next.js

Vite

Job description

About 9fin

The world's largest asset class, debt, operates with the worst data.

Technology has revolutionized equity markets with electronic trading, quant algos and instantaneous news. However, in debt capital markets, the picture is completely different. It still behaves like it’s in the 1980s; trillions of dollars of trades are placed over the phone, news is slow, and corporate credit information is imperfect and scattered.

Our mission is to change this.

9fin's proprietary technology delivers fast and comprehensive financial, credit, legal & ESG analysis. Our clients are able to make faster, more informed decisions, win more business and most importantly, save time.

Our fast growing list of clients include 9 of the top 10 Investment Banks, leading Asset Managers, Hedge Funds and Law Firms.

As a Senior front end engineer on our Structured Credit team, you will support the development of our market leading CLO product & support the launch of a new vertical.

The team maintain a strong focus on impact, using technology to deliver value for the business. While we have a high-level vision from the business, we have autonomy to set our team goals and define our own success. We take responsibility for our outcomes and emphasize proactive behaviours like ownership and accountability

Every day is different, but here’s an example of the kind of things you’ll work on day to day:

• Work cross-functionally with designers, product owners, and internal stakeholders in finance and legal
• Collaborate within a team of frontend and backend specialists
• Use data-driven approaches combined with specialist input
• Create intuitive frontend interfaces that are easy for finance and legal professionals to use
• Address technical debt that brings value to the team and business
• Get to know the business and users so you can help the team become the best in the structured credit space

Our Frontend Stack

• React 18
• Typescript
• React query
• Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright
• Storybook
• Launch darkly feature flagging
• Next.js
• Vite

About You

• Experienced with React, modern ES6 and TypeScript to build web applications to own your code through code review to full release in collaboration with the team. Also some understanding of the backend, or open to learning more full stack skills in the future.
• A strong communicator, who can present to team members and stakeholders (technical and non-technical) how you & your team’s ideas will improve our user’s experience on the platform as well as the wider technical advantages and trade-offs of your solution.
• Collaborates well with business colleagues, other engineers, UX Designers and Product managers to collectively lead product innovation achieved via fast delivery and frequent feedback iterations.
• Grows the skills and experience of others in the team in collaboration with our engineering managers using your technical knowledge, experience and team work.
• Proactively identifies tech debt and developer experience improvements and champions technical improvements and initiatives within your team and across multiple teams with the guilds.
• Can effectively advocate for software development best practices, including documentation, testing, code readability, and efficiency, in order to positively influence team outcomes and promote a culture of excellence within the development process.
• Capable of evaluating new technologies by presenting proof-of-concepts that highlight their advantages and disadvantages and how they can be applied in a real world scenario at 9fin.
• Strives to help the team achieve its goals - giving input in different situations ranging from reviewing project success metrics to feeding back on team ways of working.

9fin is an equal opportunities employer

At 9fin we are dedicated to building and promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can reach their full potential and truly belong. We recognize that building diverse teams enables a more creative and productive environment. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be who we’re looking for — either for this role, or perhaps another.