Director, UI Engineering Lead - Equities Trading Technology

We are seeking a hands-on UI Engineering Lead to shape and deliver the next generation of equities trading applications. This role combines frontend architecture, development, and technical leadership to create intuitive, high-performance trading workflows and a reusable UI platform supporting Equities Modernization.

Key Responsibilities

• Own UI architecture and delivery for modern trading applications, including basket trading, order management, and real-time monitoring.
• Partner directly with traders, product owners, and backend engineers to translate complex workflows into intuitive user experiences.
• Build a shared foundation of reusable components, interaction patterns, and application services that reduces duplication across teams.
• Design responsive, data-intensive interfaces with real-time updates, high-volume grids, and clear handling of connection and application state.
• Establish engineering standards for frontend performance, automated testing, accessibility, security, and production observability.
• Remain hands-on through coding, design reviews, troubleshooting, and delivery of critical capabilities.
• Mentor engineers and drive consistent engineering practices across applications and regions.
• Modernize legacy interfaces incrementally while maintaining business continuity.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive experience delivering production frontend applications, with ownership of architecture and technical delivery.
• Deep expertise in TypeScript, JavaScript, React, HTML, and CSS, including component design and state management.
• Proven experience building complex, real-time, data-intensive user interfaces.
• Strong understanding of browser performance, rendering behavior, asynchronous processing, and frontend/backend integration.
• Experience with streaming APIs, automated testing, CI/CD, and production diagnostics.
• Ability to work directly with business stakeholders and turn ambiguous requirements into practical solutions.
• Demonstrated technical leadership with a strong commitment to hands-on engineering.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in equities, electronic trading, OMS/EMS, or other front-office platforms.
• Familiarity with high-performance data grids, desktop interoperability, Deephaven and multi-window trading workflows.
• Experience building shared UI platforms or design systems adopted across multiple teams.
• Familiarity with Java or C++ backend environments and AI-assisted development practices.

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range of $250,000 - $300,000.

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