Front-End Software Engineer (JavaScript/TypeScript/React)

Hunter Bond — United Kingdom · Posted ~2 days ago

Senior Full-time Onsite £120000-£180000 + excellent bonus

Skills

JavaScript TypeScript React HTML5 CSS RESTful APIs AG Grid Redux Zustand WebSockets

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Summary

We are seeking a talented Front-End Software Engineer to build next-generation high-performance applications in a data-intensive financial environment. You will design and develop modern frontend applications that power critical workflows, processing and visualizing large volumes of real-time data. Your responsibilities include building interactive data grids and dashboards, developing performant web applications handling real-time streaming data, creating reusable UI components and internal frontend libraries, and optimizing rendering performance for large datasets. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including product specialists and backend engineers, and will have the opportunity to influence architecture and frontend best practices. Strong experience building sophisticated web applications with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and modern web technologies is essential. Experience with enterprise data grids, state management solutions, real-time data streaming, and performance optimization for large datasets is highly valued.

Highlights

Highly competitive compensation with excellent bonus structure, opportunity to work on complex data-intensive applications processing real-time financial data, collaborative engineering environment, chance to influence architecture and frontend best practices, work with cutting-edge technologies including enterprise data grids and real-time data streaming, cross-functional collaboration with traders and product specialists

Description

We're partnering with a leading quantitative trading firm that's continuing to invest heavily in its engineering teams. They're looking for a talented Software Engineer to help build the next generation of high-performance trading applications used by traders, quants, and researchers across global markets. This is an opportunity to work on complex, data-intensive applications where performance, usability, and reliability are critical. You'll be building sophisticated web-based platforms that process and visualise large volumes of real-time financial data. Working as part of a highly collaborative engineering team, you'll design and develop modern frontend applications that power trading workflows. You'll work closely with traders, product specialists, and backend engineers to deliver intuitive, high-performance user interfaces. You'll be involved in: Building complex, interactive data grids and financial dashboardsDeveloping responsive, performant web applications handling real-time market dataCreating reusable UI components and internal frontend librariesOptimising rendering performance for large datasetsCollaborating with backend teams to integrate low-latency APIsInfluencing architecture and frontend best practices We're interested in engineers with strong experience building sophisticated web applications rather than simple websites. You'll ideally have experience with: JavaScript and TypeScriptReactAG Grid (or similar enterprise data grid technologies)State management (Redux, Zustand or equivalent)Performance optimisation and rendering large datasetsWebSockets or real-time data streamingRESTful APIsHTML5 and modern CSS