Front Office Technical Lead

Hedge Fund; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Hedge Fund in New York is looking for a Lead Front-End Engineer to design and build user-facing applications. This role involves leading the development of a centralized portal and managing a team of front-end developers.

The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience with TypeScript/JavaScript and deliver high-quality full-stack applications. This opportunity offers a chance to work in a high-impact environment, contributing to both product and firm-wide profitability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building TypeScript/JavaScript applications in modern frameworks.
• Experience in full-stack application delivery involving database, auth, server, client, and UX.
• Track record of high shipping velocity for rapid prototyping.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect user-facing applications and build the initial central application hub.
• Build and manage a team of front-end and UX developers.
• Create streaming and real-time data processing dashboards for portfolio analysis.

Skills

TypeScript/JavaScript

React

Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)

WebSocket

High shipping velocity

Tools

Real-time data processing

Continuous integration & deployment

Job description

Multi-strategy / Multi-manager hedge fund with >$3BB in AUM and a core focus on long / short equity strategies is seeking to hire a frontend engineer to lead applications and UX development. This is a unique opportunity to architect and build the firm’s user-facing applications from the ground up. They are seeking experienced front-end and full-stack engineers who can deliver world class trading applications from real-time portfolio management and risk monitoring tools to large scale document search and embedded AI applications. This role will have a significant impact on all parts of the business and will be a driver in expanding firm-wide PnL.

As the Lead Front-End Engineer you will design and architect the foundation for all of our user-facing applications. You will build out the initial central application hub and first set of sub-applications. And over time, you will build and manage a team of front-end and UX developers.

What you will build

• A centralized portal with individual sub-applications for managing all aspects of our investment process.
• End-to-end full stack features including database schema and ORM layers, auth and access control, server-side applications, client-side applications, and UX.
• Streaming and real-time data processing dashboards for portfolio analysis and risk management used by our front-office and investment professionals.
• Quantitative analysis tooling including charting, plotting, and simulations.
• Information retrieval dashboards including document search, display, and synthesis.
• Artificial Intelligence tooling including prompt management, workflow management, chat interfaces, and hosted sub-applications.

Required Experience

• 5+ years of building TypeScript/JavaScript applications in a modern framework (React, Next, etc).
• Experience building and delivering full-stack applications that touch on database, auth, server, client, and UX.
• Experience deploying and scaling workloads on Cloud infra (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Hands‑on experience with real‑time transports (WebSocket, SSE, etc).
• A track record of high shipping velocity. Given the greenfield nature of this role, iterating from idea to prototype quickly is imperative.
• Experience taking prototypes to hardened production applications including robust continuous integration & deployment, multi‑tenancy and role based access control, database row level security, and observability / telemetry.

Nice to have

• Experience with real‑time dynamic pages, DOM virtualization, and windowing large/dynamic grids.
• Experience with Excel add‑ins
• Experience with Bloomberg integration
• Experience building modern desktop applications
• Experience building financial analysis tooling