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

Hunter Bond; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Hunter Bond is partnering with a leading quantitative trading firm to recruit a Software Engineer for high-performance trading applications used by traders, quants, and researchers worldwide.

You will design and develop modern frontend platforms that process real-time market data, build interactive dashboards, and reusable UI components while collaborating with traders and backend engineers to deliver low-latency interfaces.

Qualifications

• Experience building sophisticated web applications for data-intensive domains.
• Strong understanding of frontend architecture and best practices.
• Familiarity with real-time data visualization and performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Build complex, interactive data grids and financial dashboards.
• Develop responsive web 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 optimization

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