Senior Front-End Engineer

Deutsche Bank AG; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Working

Competitive salary

Non-contributory pension

30 days holiday

Life Assurance

Private Healthcare

Retail Discounts

Bike4Work

Gym benefits

CSR volunteering leave

Job summary

Deutsche Bank AG in London is seeking a Senior Front-End Engineer to shape the Rates and Credit Fixed Income frontend landscape. You will create real-time, high-performance UIs, design efficient APIs and WebSocket streams, and collaborate with traders and back-end teams to deliver scalable frontends.

You will drive modern frontend practices, migrate legacy interfaces, and participate in a wide modernization program with containers and modern build tooling.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building complex, high-performance web apps with React and TypeScript.
• Strong knowledge of component lifecycles, state management, and performance profiling.
• Experience delivering real-time UIs using WebSockets/SSE and reactive programming (RxJS).
• Solid frontend test strategy with Jest/Vitest and Playwright.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-performance, real-time user interfaces for trading workflows (live-pricing grids, blotters, order-entry).
• Design frontend-first APIs, WebSocket streams, and data contracts for optimal client-side performance.
• Collaborate with traders and back-end engineers to map UI requirements to scalable solutions.
• Promote frontend engineering best practices: architecture, state management, testing, CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

React

TypeScript

WebSockets

RxJS

SSE

Playwright

Jest/Vitest

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Docker

Kubernetes

Java

SQL

AI tools

Tools

Vite

Nx

monorepo tooling

REST/Streaming APIs

Web performance tooling

Job description

Job Description:

Job Title Senior Front-End Engineer

Location London

Corporate Title Vice President

You will play a key role in the transformation of Rates and Credit Fixed Income technology landscape. As part of our multi-year platform modernisation project, you will be responsible for building a suite of new, real-time, high-performance applications supporting various trading workflows. You will be involved in architecting solutions across the stack, encouraging best practices and working closely with Business stakeholders to build a maintainable, operationally efficient and scalable platform to last the next decade.

What we’ll offer you

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect:

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them
• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Develop high-performance, real-time user interfaces: Build a suite of modern, highly responsive micro-frontends and UI components to support core rates and credit trading workflows (including live-pricing grids, trade blotters, and order-entry systems)

• Drive frontend-first solution design: Collaborate closely with back-end engineers to design efficient APIs, WebSocket streams, and data contracts (e.g., JSON, Protocol Buffers) to ensure optimal client-side performance and state management

• Engage directly with business stakeholders and traders: Gather UI/UX requirements, map complex financial workflows, and rapidly deliver intuitive, impactful front-end features that improve trading floor efficiency

• Champion frontend engineering best practices: Promote industry standards in client-side architecture, state management, web performance optimization (reducing rendering bottlenecks), robust UI testing (unit, integration, and E2E), and modern CI/CD build pipelines. Participate in peer code reviews to maintain high engineering standards

• Contribute to UI platform modernization: Play an active role in migrating legacy desktop or web interfaces to modern frontend frameworks, influencing the overall UI/UX strategy, and driving the adoption of modern build tools and bundlers

• Unblock integrations with backend systems (Nice-to-Have): Leverage a working knowledge of Java to navigate backend microservices, understand data structures, and self-serve/unblock yourself when debugging frontend-to-backend integration touchpoints

Your skills and experience

• Expertise in Modern UI Frameworks: Proven experience building complex, high-performance web applications using modern React and TypeScript, with a deep understanding of component lifecycles, advanced state management, browser rendering performance, and memory profiling
• Modern Frontend Tooling: Deep expertise in configuring and optimizing modern build pipelines and developer tooling, specifically leveraging Vite, monorepo management tools (e.g., Nx), and modern package managers
• Real-Time Data Streaming: Hands-on experience delivering low-latency, event-driven UIs capable of rendering large, rapidly changing financial datasets in real time, leveraging WebSockets, Server-Sent Events (SSE), and reactive programming models (e.g., RxJS)
• Robust Test Automation: Track record of promoting engineering excellence through comprehensive frontend testing strategies, including rigorous Unit Testing (using Jest/Vitest) and end-to-end testing utilizing Playwright
• Integration with Distributed Architectures: Strong understanding of how client-side applications consume data from distributed, event-driven backend architectures (such as Solace, Kafka, or RabbitMQ) and integrate with RESTful or streaming API contracts
• Cross-Stack Capability & Self-Sufficiency (Nice-to-Have): Solid experience deploying frontend applications using containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) in production, paired with a working knowledge of Java to navigate backend codebases, understand SQL schemas, and independently unblock integration issues
• Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs

How we’ll support you

· Training and development to help you excel in your career

· Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities

· A culture of continuous learning to aid progression

· A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.

Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to be named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality and has been awarded a Proud Employer Trailblazer Status from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers.

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We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.

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