Senior Frontend Developer

VirtueTech Recruitment Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

VirtueTech Recruitment Group is seeking a Senior/VP Frontend Developer with strong full-stack capability to join a fast-growing fintech back-office team. You will shape AI-assisted development and contribute to secure, scalable web applications.

The role emphasizes decision-making influence, modern frontend engineering practices, and collaboration across the SDLC in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Full-stack capability with C#/.NET or Node.js.
• Experience with CI/CD and modern DevOps practices.
• Cloud experience (AWS) and AI-enabled development interest.

Responsibilities

• Build secure, responsive, and scalable web applications.
• Drive AI-assisted development initiatives across the SDLC.
• Collaborate with back-office trading teams and stakeholders.
• Promote high coding standards and robust DevOps practices.

Skills

C# / .NET

Node.js

CI/CD

AWS

TDD/BDD

Agile/Scrum

AI-assisted development

Finance back-office

Tools

Terraform

Job description

My client is a financial technology organisation looking for a Senior/VP Frontend Developer with strong full stack capability (C# and/or Node.js) to join a growing back office, post trade team.

This company is fast growing with tons of opportunities to keep improving the coding standards and practices. As such, it is a high impact role looking for ambitious individuals who want to actually be involved in the decision making process and being vocal to implement changes across the business.

This is a particularly interesting role for someone who wants to be at the intersection of modern frontend engineering, AI assisted development and highly regulated technology.

You’ll be building secure, responsive and scalable web applications using modern engineering practices, while helping shape how AI-assisted development is adopted across the SDLC.

3 days per week in office

What You’ll Need:

• Full-stack capability with C#/.NET or Node.js
• Strong understanding of CI/CD and modern DevOps practices
• Cloud experience, ideally AWS
• Experience with TDD/BDD
• Comfortable working in Agile/Scrum environments
• Experience with Terraform / Infrastructure as Code would be highly beneficial
• Worked in a Financial Services ideally Trading environment in the back office or with the following: derivatives, commodities, FX, asset classes, etc.

The Interesting Part - AI

This organisation is taking an AI first approach to software engineering, so they’re particularly interested in developers who have genuinely experimented with AI assisted development.

That could include:

• AI assisted code generation and refactoring
• Automated test generation
• Developer productivity tooling
• Using AI throughout the SDLC
• Building AI enabled workflows or features into applications

Importantly, this isn't just about using Copilot to write code.

They’re looking for someone who understands how to use AI responsibly in a production engineering environment, with appropriate consideration for quality, security, traceability, auditability and deterministic behaviour.