Senior Front-End Engineer

You will play a key role in the transformation of Rates and Credit Fixed Income technology landscape. As part of our multi-year platform modernisation project, you will be responsible for building a suite of new, real-time, high-performance applications supporting various trading workflows. You will be involved in architecting solutions across the stack, encouraging best practices and working closely with Business stakeholders to build a maintainable, operationally efficient and scalable platform to last the next decade.

What we'll offer you A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect:

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing.
• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Develop high-performance, real-time user interfaces: Build a suite of modern, highly responsive micro-frontends and UI components to support core rates and credit trading workflows.
• Drive frontend-first solution design: Collaborate closely with back-end engineers to design efficient APIs, WebSocket streams, and data contracts.
• Engage directly with business stakeholders and traders: Gather UI/UX requirements, map complex financial workflows, and rapidly deliver intuitive, impactful front-end features that improve trading floor efficiency.
• Champion frontend engineering best practices: Promote industry standards in client-side architecture, state management, web performance optimization.
• Contribute to UI platform modernization: Play an active role in migrating legacy desktop or web interfaces to modern frontend frameworks.
• Unblock integrations with backend systems: Leverage a working knowledge of Java to navigate backend microservices.

Your skills and experience

• Expertise in Modern UI Frameworks: Proven experience building complex, high-performance web applications using modern React and TypeScript.
• Modern Frontend Tooling: Deep expertise in configuring and optimizing modern build pipelines and developer tooling.
• Real-Time Data Streaming: Hands-on experience delivering low-latency, event-driven UIs capable of rendering large, rapidly changing financial datasets in real time.
• Robust Test Automation: Track record of promoting engineering excellence through comprehensive frontend testing strategies.
• Integration with Distributed Architectures: Strong understanding of how client-side applications consume data from distributed, event-driven backend architectures.
• Cross-Stack Capability & Self-Sufficiency: Solid experience deploying frontend applications using containerization.
• Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity.