Core UI / Web Platform Engineer- Global Quant Firm

Salary: up to £200k base Summary Leading HFT fund looking for an experienced Front End Developer to join their core UI platform team. This is a high impact role where your primary focus is building and extending the core UI platform, using it to develop business-critical applications. You'll collaborate extensively with a wide variety of teams, helping them use the platform to build their own applications. You'll aim for simplicity where possible, but you'll also build cutting-edge UIs when required. Technology is prized by the traders as crucial to their continued success. Unique in their field, this global firm combines the lively, positive spirit of a start-up with the stability of a longer-established player. The successful Web Platform Engineer will be comfortable within the modern web development environment (tools & techniques), with a deep empathy for the developers who'll use your platform, always looking for improvements to increase their productivity. Requirements • Minimum 4+ years of professional experience building web-based UIs • Extensive experience with React, Typescript, WebSocket protocols, REST, and UI unit-testing • Very comfortable working in a highly agile, collaborative methodology (sprints, pair-programming, testing, estimation, etc.) • Bonus points for Kubernetes, Helm, containers, CI/CD pipelines and/or experience working in trading / finance NB: Please don't apply if you are a fresh graduate. Benefits • Competitive base salary & bonus • Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have a significant business impact • Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported • Substantial benefits package, including private medical, paid parental leave, group life assurance & parking/cycle schemes Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful. Contact If this sounds like you, or you'd like to know more, please get in touch. Andy Stirling-Martin in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946