Front End Engineer

Interactive Brokers Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch provided

Discretionary cash bonus

Discretionary stock grant

Group Life Assurance

Group Income Protection

Occupational pension scheme

Above statutory annual leave

Daily company-paid lunch

Private Medical Insurance

Travel season ticket loans

Cycle to work scheme

Fitness subsidisation

Job summary

Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. in London seeks a Front-End Engineer to deliver hands-on solutions across our critical trading UI projects, with a focus on Vue-based interfaces and performance.

The role supports a hybrid London office, four days a week, with opportunities to cross-train towards full-stack while enhancing scalability and UX for a global client base. You will join a collaborative team that values problem-solving, rigorous code quality, and continuous improvement, while

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial software development with SPA focus.
• Strong TypeScript skills and well-typed libraries.
• Experience with modern front-end tooling and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with AI concepts and tooling; practical experience is a plus.
• Solid CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design.
• Experience with real-time data (WebSockets, SSE) is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable web applications within the Vue.js ecosystem (VueJs, Vuex, Pinia, Vite, Cypress, webpack)
• Own high-traffic applications focusing on speed and user experience
• Identify and implement improvements to architecture, performance and code quality
• Collaborate with peers to ideate, plan, and organize large-scale projects
• Contribute and help maintain our company-wide Vue UI Component Library
• Set direction and partner with other frontend engineers to implement new technologies

Skills

Vue.js

TypeScript

SPA development

WebSockets

AI concepts

CI/CD

Algorithms & data structures

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Vite

Rollup

Vitest

Playwright

AG Grid

PrimeVue

Pinia/Redux

UI design systems

Job description

Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: IBKR), a member of the S&P 500, is a global financial services company headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, with offices in over 15 countries. Through its affiliates, Interactive Brokers provides automated trade execution and custody of securities, commodities, foreign exchange, and prediction markets on over 170 markets in numerous countries and currencies.

For more than four decades, Interactive Brokers has focused on technology, automation, and innovation to provide clients worldwide with a sophisticated, unified platform to manage their investment portfolios. We serve individual investors, hedge funds, proprietary trading groups, financial advisors, and introducing brokers.

Our culture is driven by problem-solving, efficiency, and continuous improvement. We look for individuals who are intellectually curious, collaborative, and motivated to contribute to technology that helps simplify and enhance access to global financial markets. Interactive Brokers has consistently been recognized as a top broker by respected industry sources including Barron’s, Investopedia, Stockbrokers.com, and others.

The Role

We'relooking for a talented Front-End Engineer to take a hands-on delivery role across our most critical platform initiatives —continuously improvingour trading UIs in Vue.

We are also open to strong server-side engineers with a genuine interest in front-end technologies who are looking to cross-train into a full-stack role — we'll invest in helping you get there.

We currently operate a hybrid working model at IBKR, and so you will be able to commute to our fantastic central London office (The Walkie Talkie Building) 4 days per week, where you will be pleased to hear we offer lunch every day you are in the office from a selection of vendors.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable web applications within the VueJs ecosystem (VueJs, Vuex, Pinia, Vite, Cypress, webpack)
• Owning and building high-traffic applications with a focus on speed and user experience
• Proactivelyidentifyingand implementing improvements to architecture,performanceand code quality
• Collaborating with colleagues and peers toideate, plan, and organize large-scale projects
• Contribute and helpmaintainour company-wide Vue UI Component Library
• Set direction and partner with other frontend engineers to implement new technologies

Requirements

Technical

• 5+ years of commercial software development experience, with a strong emphasis on single-page application (SPA) development
• Strong TypeScript skills; able to design and build robust, well-typed libraries and components
• Experience with modern front-end tooling: build systems (Vite,rollup), testing frameworks (Vitest,Playwright) andCI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity withAI concepts and tooling— including AI-assisted development, LLM integration in web applications; practical experience is a strong plus
• A solid grounding in core computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms and system design
• Experience with real-time data (WebSockets, SSE or similar) is a significant advantage in this role
• Good to have experience with AG Grid, Prime Vue, UI state management systems such asPina,Redux,andUI design systems.

Soft Skills & Ways of Working

• Strong communicator, equally comfortable in a detailed technical discussion with senior engineers and a user-centred design discussion with product experts
• Able to pick up new business domains quickly, asking sharp questions and building understanding fast
• Demonstrates strong personal integrity and accountability
• Open to and actively seeks constructive feedback
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related STEM discipline; a postgraduate qualification is a plus

Personal Attributes

• A passionate advocate for clean, concise and maintainable code
• A natural technical leader who earns the trust and confidence of peers
• A collaborative team player — confident enough to admit mistakes, comfortable leading and following in equal measure, always willing to learn as well as teach
• Someone who thrives in a fast-paced, high-energy environment and takes genuine ownership of outcomes

Location:

20 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 3BY

9am – 6pm, Monday – Friday

• Career support and development
• Salary commensurate with experience
• Performance based discretionary cash bonus scheme
• Discretionary stock grant
• Group Life Assurance cover
• Group Income Protection
• Occupation pension scheme based on Gross earnings
• Above statutory annual leave, increasing with service
• Daily company-paid lunch and healthy snack options throughout the day (when working from the office)
• Access to Private Medical Insurance, Dental Plan and / or Health Cash Plan*
• Travel season ticket loans*
• Cycle to work scheme*
• Fitness subsidisation

*on successful completion of the probation period