# Front End Engineer

**Company**: FIC & Risk Technology
**Location**: New York, New York
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $175,000 to $250,000
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Front-End Developer to build and maintain high-performance, low-latency user interfaces for trading applications.

You will work closely with UI engineers, algorithmic developers, product, quantitative, and backend engineering teams to deliver real-time data visualizations, workflows, and dashboards that support trading and risk management.

Responsibilities:

- Design, build, and maintain React-based user interfaces that power core trading application workflows

- Implement real-time data visualizations for orders, prices, positions, and other key metrics using streaming technologies such as WebSockets

- Turn product requirements and stakeholder feedback into intuitive, efficient, and scalable user experiences, rapidly prototyping and iterating on new features

- Optimize front-end performance, responsiveness, and reliability across complex, data-intensive screens

- Partner with backend engineers to integrate REST and WebSocket APIs, as well as WebAssembly-based components

- Write clean, testable, well-structured code supported by unit and integration tests

- Provide best practices around code reviews, front-end architecture decisions, and developer-level production support for the front-end components

- Prototype, iterate, and support front-end components in production to ensure a high-quality user experience

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field

- 5+ years of professional experience building web applications with JavaScript/TypeScript

- 5+ years with React in production, including substantial experience with hooks, functional components, and modern patterns

- Strong knowledge of modern JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, and CSS3

- Experience with real-time data UIs (tables, charts, dashboards) and (WebSockets, SSE, or similar streaming technologies)

- Experience with state management (e.g., Redux, Zustand, or similar)

- Ability to leverage LLM-assisted tools (e.g., code assistants) effectively in the development workflow

- Experience in fixed-income capital markets or other capital markets, specifically with concepts such as positions, P&L, risk metrics, and market data is a plus

- Good communication skills and ability to collaborate directly with non-technical stakeholders

Our tech stack:

- Front-end: React 18, TypeScript, AG Grid, Ant Design, WebSockets, WASM

- Back-end: Node.js, Java Spring Boot (used to bundle/serve the front-end , familiarity is a plus, not required), Rust

- Data: MS SQL, Elasticsearch

- Security/Auth: Kerberos, JWT

Benefits:

- The estimated base salary range for this position is $175,000 to $250,000, which is specific to New York and may change in the future.

- Comprehensive benefits package

## Skills

### Required
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- React
- WebSockets
- REST APIs
- WebAssembly
- HTML5
- CSS3
- AG Grid
- Ant Design
- MS SQL
- Elasticsearch
- Kerberos
- JWT

### Nice to have
- fixed-income capital markets
- capital markets
- positions
- P&L
- risk metrics
- market data

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