Senior Frontend Engineer (Algo)

P2P; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 175,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to enhance their algorithmic trading team's UI capabilities. This role offers the chance to design innovative trading interfaces that provide critical real-time data to traders, ensuring a seamless user experience. Ideal candidates will have extensive web development experience, particularly with JavaScript and UX design, and will thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. Join a company that values integrity and innovation, and play a vital role in shaping the future of trading technology.

Benefits

Group medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k with employer match

Short and long-term disability

Life and AD&D insurance

Health savings accounts

Flexible spending accounts

Qualifications

• 5+ years in web development with strong JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS skills.
• 3+ years of UX design experience and familiarity with trading systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and build automated trading UIs to surface critical real-time information.
• Work with traders to ensure a cohesive user experience across applications.
• Develop products from inception to production, including user experience.

Skills

JavaScript

HTML5

CSS

TypeScript

ReactJS

Vue

WebSockets

UX design

Unit testing

Performance optimization

Job description

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk.

Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets.

We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it’s not just what we do that matters–it's how we do it. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.

We're seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to join our algorithmic trading team to improve existing trading system UIs and develop new UI’s. The position is focused on UI engineering but offers opportunities to work on API design and back-end code.

Candidates should have strong initiative and have proven experience independently driving projects to completion. We work from high-level requirements and programmers are expected to gain an intimate understanding of the business and work directly with traders and researchers on a daily basis.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build the next evolution of our automated trading UI’s. Your job is to create a UI environment that surfaces critical real time information across markets and trading applications, intuitively alerts traders to what is important, allows them to quickly assess the state of our automated trading systems, and control the applications flawlessly.
• Work side by side with traders and developers to deliver a cohesive user experience across our trading applications, and ensure that our UIs are consistent, efficient, and prevent user errors.
• Develop full products from inception to production, including gathering requirements, understanding the user experience, developing prototypes, implementation, and production support.
• Profile and tune the performance of client-side code.
• Provide on-call production support as needed.

Some of the key skills are:

• 5+ years of experience with web development (JavaScript, HTML5, CSS required, with at least some of WebSockets, TypeScript, ReactJS, Vue, Knockout, WASM, etc.)
• 3+ years of experience with UX design
• Experience with evaluating multiple feature requests, identifying what the user needs, and providing a solution that meets their need and is consistent across the platform.
• Mature practices in unit testing and automated, UI driven acceptance testing
• Experience with high availability systems
• Experience with optimizing applications for Chrome
• Experience developing server-side systems (helpful but not required)
• Experience developing on Linux and a familiarity with the command line
• Experience with DevOps or system administration (helpful but not required)
• Experience with trading systems (helpful but not required)

The annual base salary range for this position is $175,000 to $225,000, depending on the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and relevant skill set. The position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition, DRW offers a comprehensive suite of employee benefits including group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance, 401k (with discretionary employer match), short and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, health savings accounts, and flexible spending accounts.

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