Front-End JavaScript/TypeScript/React/AG Grid Software Engineer : Trading : £120-180k plus excellent bonus : London

Hunter Bond; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Hunter Bond is partnering with a leading quantitative trading firm to hire a Software Engineer focused on frontend for high-performance trading platforms. You will build data-intensive web UIs and dashboards used by traders, quants, and researchers across global markets.

You’ll collaborate with traders, product specialists, and backend engineers to deliver responsive, low-latency interfaces, reusable UI components, and enterprise data grids while pushing frontend best practices.

Qualifications

• Must have experience building sophisticated web applications, not static sites.
• Strong experience with modern frontend frameworks and data-driven UIs.
• Experience delivering high-performance, reliable web platforms for real-time data.

Responsibilities

• Build complex, interactive data grids and financial dashboards.
• Develop responsive frontend applications handling real-time market data.
• Create reusable UI components and internal frontend libraries.
• Collaborate with backend teams to integrate low-latency APIs.
• Influence frontend architecture and best practices.

Skills

React

AG Grid

State management

Performance optimisation

Job description

We're partnering with a leading quantitative trading firm that's continuing to invest heavily in its engineering teams. They're looking for a talented Software Engineer to help build the next generation of high-performance trading applications used by traders, quants, and researchers across global markets. This is an opportunity to work on complex, data-intensive applications where performance, usability, and reliability are critical. You'll be building sophisticated web-based platforms that process and visualise large volumes of real-time financial data.

Working as part of a highly collaborative engineering team, you'll design and develop modern frontend applications that power trading workflows. You'll work closely with traders, product specialists, and backend engineers to deliver intuitive, high-performance user interfaces.

You'll be involved in:

• Building complex, interactive data grids and financial dashboards
• Developing responsive, performant web applications handling real-time market data
• Creating reusable UI components and internal frontend libraries
• Collaborating with backend teams to integrate low-latency APIs
• Influencing architecture and frontend best practices

We're interested in engineers with strong experience building sophisticated web applications rather than simple websites.

You'll ideally have experience with:

• React
• AG Grid (or similar enterprise data grid technologies)
• State management (Redux, Zustand or equivalent)
• Performance optimisation and rendering large datasets