Senior Frontend Engineer

DARE; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy trading company in the City of London is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer. The role involves designing and delivering user interfaces for Trading systems using React and TypeScript. Candidates should thrive in fast-paced environments and possess strong communication skills. Exceptional benefits include competitive salary, health insurance, extensive holiday, and personal development budgets.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Vitality health insurance and dental cover

38 days of holiday

Pension scheme

Annual Bluecrest health checks

Personal learning & development budget of £5000

Free gym membership

Specsavers vouchers

Enhanced family leave

Cycle to Work scheme

Credited Deliveroo dinner account

Office massage therapy

Freshly served office breakfast twice a week

Fully stocked fridge and pantry

Social events and a games room

Qualifications

• Excited by change and a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work effectively under tight deadlines.
• Action bias problem solver and a logical thinker.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and deliver new front-end features for Trading systems.
• Take part in the design process.
• Work in cross functional teams with Traders, PMs and other engineers.

Skills

Strong React and TypeScript experience

Good working knowledge of browser APIs and JavaScript

Good understanding of Design / UX

Excellent communication skills

Experience in Test Automation and CI/CD pipelines

Tools

AWS

Python

Golang

C#

Job description

City of London

Permanent, Full-time – Onsite

Who we are

We are an energy trading company generating liquidity across global commodities markets. We combine deep trading expertise with proprietary technology and the power of data science to be the best-in-class. Our understanding of volatile, data-intensive markets is a key part of our edge.

At Dare, you will be joining a team of ambitious individuals who challenge themselves and each other. We have a culture of empowering exceptional people to become the best version of themselves.

What you’ll be doing

The Development team works on delivering high quality user interfaces across Dare using React on our frontend to drive our digital tooling scales in the number of users. Our platforms generate huge quantities of data, and some interfaces require users to make decisions and actions with incredible speed and precision. We’re seeking an exceptional Senior Frontend Engineer, making sense of this data and designing interfaces for users to interact and explore, you’ll take ownership to design, build and maintain scalable, reliable performant systems.

• Design, develop and deliver new front-end features for our Trading systems, that brings value to our users.
• Design, build and maintain existing and reliable systems.
• Take part in the design process.
• Work in cross functional teams - Traders, PMs and other engineers.

You’ll have

• Strong React and TypeScript experience.
• Good working knowledge of browser APIs and JavaScript.
• You're excited by change and a fast-paced environment.
• Good understanding of Design / UX.
• Excellent communication with the ability to translate technical complexity to simplicity and customer mindset.
• Experience in Test Automation and CI/CD pipelines.
• Action bias problem solver and a logical thinker.li>
• The ability to work effectively under tight deadlines and are impact driven.

Desirable

• Trading or Financial Services experience.
• Other JS Frameworks and Runtimes (Angular/Vue/Solid/Electron etc) beneficial.
• AG Grid (or other JS data visualisation solutions).
• Backend experience, ideally in Python/Golang/C# would be advantageous.
• DevOps (AWS or K8’s) experience.

Benefits & perks

• Competitive salary
• Vitality health insurance and dental cover
• 38 days of holiday (including bank holidays)
• Pension scheme
• Annual Bluecrest health checks
• A personal learning & development budget of £5000
• Free gym membership
• Specsavers vouchers
• Enhanced family leave
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Credited Deliveroo dinner account
• Office massage therapy
• Freshly served office breakfast twice a week
• Fully stocked fridge and pantry
• Social events and a games room

Diversity matters

We believe in a workplace where our people can fulfil their potential, whatever their background or whomever they are. We celebrate the breadth of experience and see this as critical to problem-solving and to Dare thriving as a business. Our culture rewards curiosity and drive, so the best ideas triumph and everyone here can make an impact.

Please let us know ahead of the interview and testing processes if you require any reasonable adjustments or assistance during the application process.

We’re also proud to be certified a ‘Great Place to Work’. Read more about our culture and what our team says about us here.