Frontend Developer - Angular and/or React, nodeJS, JS frameworks

Frontend Developer - Angular and/or React, nodeJS, JS frameworks

New York, NY - hybrid

12 months+

Description

We are developing a risk application spanning the entire Global Institutional Equity Division front office. This application presents real time and historic risk and P&L to traders and risk managers, enable drill down into risk and P&L detail, pivot the data in numerous ways, and interact with other trading tools in the front office.

The application is being built in React with a GigaSpaces middle tier. The GUI is to be highly configurable and thin, enabling a fast turnaround on new panels for different use cases.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of post-academic work experience with frontend solutions (Angular and/or React, nodeJS, JS frameworks)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong experience in managing User Interfaces for data intensive platforms
• Expertise in Object Oriented Design, Design patterns, Architecture and Application Integration
• Strong experience in architecting scalable applications that can support 1000+ users at a time
• Comfortable spending part of the time on the trading desk to help traders, solicit feedback, and advocate for the platform once familiar with capabilities
• Hands-on experience with distributed tech stack with modern tools of development
• Hands-on experience with core dev-ops tooling and best practices and manage this at a platform level
• Hands-on experience for managing large UI product from delivery, code-quality and maintenance perspective
• Hands-on experience with automated test frameworks - Cypress, Jasmine, Karma, Playwright, Protactor etc. & Test-Driven Development
• Experience in managing the deployments and build frameworks
• Experience in managing the large codebase/monorepos supporting development of the UI platform, with large number of developers contributing continuously to the platform.
• Experience in building and owning common reusable components for UIs
• Experience in collaborating with global stakeholders for product development
• Ability to manage the UX designers and translate UX designs into actual product implementation
• Ability to co-ordinate across large team and ensure product development per multi-year roadmap;
• Consistent track record for successful delivery of enterprise wide platforms
• Ability to coach and mentor the talent on development best practices with new tech stacks - frontend development and cloud esp.
• Ability to adapt to the new developments in the UI space and to keep platform technically updated and modern.