Principal UI Software Engineer

TP ICAP; London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in London is seeking a Principal UI Software Engineer to lead the development of its Fusion platform. The successful candidate will demonstrate technical leadership in creating high-performance trading applications and mentor a team of engineers, ensuring adherence to best practices and standards. Required experience includes proficiency with UI libraries and strong communication skills. This is a hands-on role with opportunities for innovation.

Qualifications

• Experience as a senior/principal engineer in trading systems.
• Familiarity with CSS pre-processors such as SASS and LESS.
• Knowledge of testing frameworks like Jest.
• Experience with version control systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of trading applications.
• Mentor a team of engineers and provide technical guidance.
• Architect and develop high-performance systems.
• Participate in retrospectives to drive best practices.

Skills

Technical leadership

Agile development

UI Libraries (Material UI, Ant Design)

Performance profiling and optimisation

Strong communication skills

Education

Proven experience in high-performance trading systems

Tools

JIRA

Git

Figma

Webpack

AWS

Job description

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The Principal UI Software Engineer will provide technical leadership on TP ICAP’s flagship Fusion platform. This includes the Fusion Platform UI team and setting the standards and direction of other UI Engineers across several Credit technology teams. They will demonstrate the benefits of approaches to development and delivery either through working as a team member or through group sessions. They should be the authority for decisions relating to standards and engineering best practices within their discipline. You will lead the design, development, and implementation of cutting-edge trading applications while driving the technical direction of the team.

The Principal Engineer will be passionate about software development and keen to use their technical skills to help their development teams to be successful. They should be comfortable working in agile teams, foster transparent communication, have a commitment to quality, and a focus on getting things done. Whilst there is scope to shape this role, it is expected to be hands-on coding, design and architecture as well as providing leadership and driving innovation.

Role Responsibilities

Development, Architecture, SDLC and Delivery

Architect and develop high-performance, scalable, and robust trading systems, tools, and platforms.

Lead and mentor a team of engineers, providing technical guidance and hands-on coding expertise.

Act as the primary technical leader and developer on the Fusion UI team, demonstrating strong technical competencies and acting as a dependable and high value contributor within the team such that other team members know what they should aspire to

Provide technical oversight of the analysis and design for assigned projects

Design, develop, test and oversee production software solutions, including the development of highly complex systems, and modifications to existing systems

Be able to communicate the architecture and principles behind a system to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Support the use of preferred planning and prioritisation tooling (JIRA) to capture and track deliveries, identify issues and help with roadmap and iteration planning and prioritisation

Ensure the team engages in a well-defined SDLC that supports planning, prioritisation and delivery needs

Support the team through help with defining scope and guiding estimation of work to be done by leveraging previous experience

Be custodians for target state architecture and best practice within your respective development team and across the Fusion estate

Identify opportunities to evolve systems towards target state architecture and direct refactoring and prioritisation to positively influence deliveries

Communication and Leadership

Work alongside Team Leaders, to provide technical leadership and direction for the development team

Participate in retrospectives and seek opportunities to drive best practice

Lead the software team to deliver high quality and innovative software solutions

Provide leadership and guidance to coach, motivate and lead team members to their optimum performance levels and career development, through both gated checks like code reviews and more supportive approaches such as mentoring or identifying stretch opportunities for team members

Change, Risk and Issue Management

Guide and support team to identify and escalate risks as appropriate

Work with the Team Leaders to provide time and resource estimates, identify potential areas of risk and suggest mitigating actions

Share complex technical designs or issues with non-technical stakeholders and influence their decision making where necessary

Identify tools and methodologies to improve the effectiveness of the development process

Assist and facilitate prioritisation of software defects and enhancements

Manage risks and issues effectively with timely escalation to the project stakeholders

Experience / Competences

Proven experience as a senior/principal engineer in high-performance trading systems or similar domains.

UI Libraries such as Material UI or Ant Design.

CSS pre-processors such as SASS and LESS

Testing frameworks e.g. Jest

Performance profiling and optimisation

Build tools such as Webpack

Code quality and governance tools such as Sonarqube.

Version control systems such as git i.e. gitlabs

Strong communication and collaboration skills

Figma for mock-ups and collaboration

Design thinking

Use of Storybook

Knowledge of AWS or other cloud platforms.