Front End Engineer, Investment Analytics

Hydrogen Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Hydrogen Group is seeking a Front-End Engineer to build modern investment analytics applications in the UK. You will craft responsive interfaces using TypeScript and React, delivering intuitive workflows for portfolio comparison, risk and performance analysis.

You will integrate with APIs, work with complex datasets, and visualise data with charts and grids. The role emphasizes accessibility, automated testing, and close collaboration with investment users to translate complex calculations into

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience with TypeScript and React or similar.
• Experience building data-intensive applications and integrating APIs.
• Strong understanding of application engineering, usability and responsive design.
• Experience with investment, trading, risk or financial applications is highly desirable.
• Financial markets knowledge is beneficial, but strong quantitative/quantitative mathematics experience is not required.

Responsibilities

• Develop responsive, intuitive user interfaces using TypeScript and React or a comparable modern framework.
• Integrate with APIs and work with complex datasets.
• Build interactive charts, data visualisations and data grids.
• Develop automated tests and ensure strong accessibility and usability.
• Work closely with investment users to translate complex calculations and data into clear, effective user journeys.

Skills

TypeScript & React

Data-intensive applications

API integration

Usability & responsive design

Investment/finance domain (desirable)

Job description

Front-End Engineer – Investment Analytics

We are looking for an experienced Front-End Engineer to build modern, user-friendly applications supporting portfolio comparison, risk and performance analysis, drill-down, what-if scenarios and exception-review workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop responsive, intuitive user interfaces using TypeScript and React or a comparable modern framework.
• Integrate with APIs and work with complex datasets.
• Build interactive charts, data visualisations and data grids.
• Develop automated tests and ensure strong accessibility and usability.
• Work closely with investment users to translate complex calculations and data into clear, effective user journeys.

Key Skills & Experience

• Strong commercial experience with TypeScript and React or similar.
• Experience building data-intensive applications and integrating APIs.
• Strong understanding of application engineering, usability and responsive design.
• Experience with investment, trading, risk or financial applications is highly desirable.
• Financial markets knowledge is beneficial, but strong quantitative/quantitative mathematics experience is not required.

The priority is finding a strong application engineer who can create high-quality, intuitive user experiences around complex investment data.

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