Front-end Engineer (React / TypeScript)

Validus Risk Management Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive remuneration package

Private healthcare

Retirement plan

Regular social events

Support for professionalQualifications

Job summary

Validus Risk Management Limited is seeking a talented front-end engineer to enhance our React-based web applications and contribute to a modern, AI-assisted development workflow. You will work within a fintech-focused tech team, delivering features across trading, risk, and portfolio applications with a strong emphasis on UI/UX and performance.

You will collaborate with quants, back-end, and platform engineers in a fast-paced agile environment, using Nx/Vite, Zustand, and TanStack tools to build

Qualifications

• Strong TypeScript knowledge and React expertise.
• Experience with state management libraries (Zustand).
• Experience with REST API contracts and OpenAPI.
• Experience with automated testing (Vitest, Playwright).
• Experience with CSS and UI styling.
• Familiarity with Nx and Vite monorepos.

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.
• Collaborate with other teams on features spanning multiple parts of the stack.
• Provide useful, thorough code reviews and pair with others across the team.
• Look to improve UI and UX across our product range to maintain design consistency.
• Participate in agile ceremonies, such as daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, estimation, and retrospectives.
• Lay technical foundations for real-time communication between back-end and front-end using WebSockets.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Zustand

OpenAPI

Vitest

Playwright

CSS

Tools

Nx

Vite

HighCharts

HandsOnTable

React Router

React Query (TanStack)

Job description

Validus is looking for a talented engineer to join our front-end development team. The front-end team is responsible for the design and development of our web applications implemented in React.

The front-end development team is part of the broader technology team working in collaboration with quants, back-end 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.

We work with AI tooling as a normal part of how we build, and we are looking for someone who has a keen interest on how to incorporate new tools and ways of working into our development workflow.

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.
• Give useful, thorough code reviews and pair with others across the team.
• 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.
• Bring ideas on the current technology stack and be part of the conversations about changing it, such as state management or how we manage our API calls.
• Help lay the technical foundations of real-time communication between back-end and front-end using WebSockets.
• Build on, and improve our implementation of Nx as a Front-end monorepo, built with Vite.
• Utilise Zustand and React Query (TanStack) 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.
• Use front-end monitoring and session replay to understand how features behave for real users, and to get to the bottom of reported issues.

Working with AI

• Use AI tooling as part of your normal working day, and take full ownership of everything it produces. Review it properly, understand it, and be able to defend it in a code review.
• Think in terms of workflows rather than single prompts. That means investing in the context these tools work from, whether that is repository level instructions, reusable skills or a shared knowledge base, so the output stays consistent and other people can rely on it. For example, utilising and contributing to our DevOps and testing skills to ensure features work end-to-end.
• Bring ideas on where AI makes front-end work more scalable. Turning designs into components, keeping interfaces consistent across a large monorepo and taking the repetition out of building screens are all areas we are actively interested in.
• Get involved in connecting tools together, for example bringing design tools such as Figma into the development flow, or wiring our own systems up over MCP so an agent can do something useful end to end.
• 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 consuming and helping shape REST API contracts, including working with an OpenAPI specification.
• Ability to implement beautiful styles using CSS.
• Real experience of AI-assisted development, and a clear view on where it helps and where it gets in the way. Some exposure to, or clear interest in, agentic workflows and tool use over MCP.
• Curiosity about financial markets and an appetite to learn the domain.
• 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.

Validus Risk Management is an independent technology-enabled advisory firm specializing in the management of FX, interest rate and other market risks. We work with institutional investors, fund managers, and portfolio companies to design and implement strategies to measure, manage and monitor financial market risk, using a market-tested combination of specialist consulting services, trade execution and innovation risk technology.

• competitive remuneration package (salary + bonus)
• retirement plan
• private healthcare
• regular social events
• financial support towards professional qualifications

Validus is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.