Trading UI Frontend Engineer — TypeScript & FP

edkey; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Visa sponsorship

Hybrid work model

Job summary

CareerTakes is recruiting a Frontend Software Engineer for a confidential trading-infrastructure client in the New York area. You will design and implement polished, high-performance browser-based tools used by expert users, with a focus on elegant interfaces and scalable UI components.

You should have strong TypeScript experience, familiarity with React/Vue/Angular, and a disciplined approach to testing, accessibility, and collaboration with traders and cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, or related field.
• Proven experience shipping front-end applications for expert users.
• Experience with TypeScript and modern front-end toolchains, bundlers, and testing frameworks.
• Experience designing reusable UI components and libraries.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement browser-based tools for trading infrastructure with elegant, usable interfaces.
• Build reusable libraries and abstractions that capture common interaction patterns and improve firm-wide UI development practices.
• Collaborate across teams — front-end, back-end, middleware, and database engineers — and work closely with traders and end users to translate domain needs into UI/UX solutions.
• Contribute to UI architecture decisions, code reviews, and maintain high standards for testability, performance, and accessibility.
• Work with typed functional programming techniques where appropriate to improve correctness and maintainability of UI code.

Skills

Frontend development

UI/UX design

TypeScript

Performance optimization

Accessibility

Collaborative skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

React

Vue

Angular

TypeScript tooling

Testing frameworks

Job description

CareerTakes is recruiting a Frontend Software Engineer for a confidential trading-infrastructure client in the New York area. You will design and implement polished, high-performance browser-based tools used by expert users, with a focus on elegant interfaces and scalable UI components.

You should have strong TypeScript experience, familiarity with React/Vue/Angular, and a disciplined approach to testing, accessibility, and collaboration with traders and cross-functional teams.