Real-Time Trading UI Engineer - React Frontend

Selby Jennings; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Selby Jennings, a leading financial technology recruiter, seeks an experienced Front-End Engineer to build high-performance React applications for real-time front-office trading teams. You will work closely with product owners and users to deliver new functionality, while contributing to architectural decisions and engineering best practices.

Ideal candidates have strong React/TypeScript skills, experience with real-time data and financial services environments, and a passion for scalable UI

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience with React and modern JavaScript/TypeScript development.
• Experience building complex, business-critical web applications.
• Exposure to real-time data, streaming applications or event-driven systems.
• Experience within financial services, capital markets or electronic trading environments.
• Exposure to trading platforms, market data systems or analytics applications.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-performance front-end applications using React.
• Build intuitive, real-time user interfaces used by front-office trading teams.
• Collaborate closely with product owners, users and stakeholders to deliver new functionality.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and drive engineering best practices.
• Optimise application performance and user workflows across complex, data-intensive platforms.
• Develop reusable components, shared libraries and scalable UI frameworks.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, from design through to production support.

Skills

React

JavaScript/TypeScript

Real-time data

Financial services

WebSockets

Redux

RxJS

AG Grid

OpenFin

architectural design

Tools

Redux

RxJS

AG Grid

WebSockets

OpenFin

Job description

Selby Jennings, a leading financial technology recruiter, seeks an experienced Front-End Engineer to build high-performance React applications for real-time front-office trading teams. You will work closely with product owners and users to deliver new functionality, while contributing to architectural decisions and engineering best practices.

Ideal candidates have strong React/TypeScript skills, experience with real-time data and financial services environments, and a passion for scalable UI