React Developer

Insight Global; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a React Developer to join our financial services client in New York City. The role involves building user-facing trading applications, enhancing UI experiences, and collaborating with traders and engineers. Qualified candidates should have over 7 years of front-end experience with a strong focus on React, JavaScript, and TypeScript. You will work closely with business stakeholders to deliver intuitive and high-performance applications for derivatives trading workflows. The position is onsite 5 days a week and emphasizes diverse and inclusive work environments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of front end development experience, most relevantly with React.
• Hands on experience building production grade, workflow heavy user interfaces in React.
• Experience participating in production support for high availability applications.

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance user facing trading applications.
• Collaborate with traders and PMs to understand trading workflows.
• Contribute to application and workflow design.

Skills

Front end development experience

React

TypeScript

JavaScript

APIs and integration patterns

User interface design

Collaborating with business stakeholders

Job description

Job Description

Insight Global is seeking a React Developer to join one of our largest financial services clients and sit in NYC onsite 5 days/week. This person will be joining the Asset Management Trading Technology team, building mission critical platforms that support real time trading, risk, and investment decision making across global markets. This individual will be focused on building and enhancing user facing trading applications that support derivatives trading workflows (e.g., creating and improving screens/tools traders use to place, monitor, and manage orders).

On a day to day basis, this React Developer will partner closely with traders, portfolio managers, and engineers to understand trading workflows and translate them into intuitive, high performance UI experiences. They will contribute to application and workflow design, build new features and enhancements, integrate with APIs and event driven services for real time updates/monitoring, and ensure the UI is scalable, resilient, and production ready. The role includes collaborating with global engineering teams (NY + Bengaluru), participating in code reviews, supporting production issues for business critical systems, and leveraging AI assisted development tools (coding copilots, test generation, code analysis) to improve speed and quality.

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to [e-mail] learn more about how we collect, keep, and process your private information, please review Insight Global's Workforce Privacy Policy: https://insightglobal.com/workforce-privacy-policy/.

Skills and Requirements

• 7+ years of front end development experience, most relevantly with React
• Experience supporting front office trading platforms or building UIs for derivatives trading (options, futures, swaps, structured products)
• Hands on experience building production grade, workflow heavy user interfaces in React
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript / JavaScript and modern front end patterns (component architecture, state management, performance tuning)
• Experience building real time user interfaces (live monitoring, streaming updates, responsive dashboards)
• Solid understanding of APIs and integration patterns between UI and distributed backend services
• Ability to work directly with business stakeholders and be empathetic to users’ needs (traders/PMs) and translate requirements into working software
• Exposure to asset management / financial services technology environments
• Experience participating in production support for high availability, business critical applications