Job Description

Elite UI Engineer
London
160-180k Base + Bonus + Excellent Benefits

Our client, a prestigious global hedge fund, requires a UI engineer to partner with the trading, research, and data teams to develop and deliver key initiatives for their world-class commodities trading business.

The successful candidate will:

• Play a key part in evolving an advanced technology platform used by analysts to understand patterns
• Conduct scenario analysis
• Improve the overall accuracy of investment decisions
• Utilise the following Technologies: React, TypeScript, Python, gRPC, GraphQL, NodeJS, Kubernetes, Docker

The successful UI Engineer will possess the following skills, traits, and experience:

• 7-12 years of solid, hands-on engineering experience with a demonstrated track record of creative thinking, exceeding the bar, and delivering exceptional results
• Experience working with systematic trading systems. Exposure to commodity markets would be an advantage
• Hands-on collaborative working
• Designing and developing cross-platform applications using the latest TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and libraries
• Significant experience building React applications from architecture to completion
• Expert-level skills in JavaScript libraries such as React; specific experience in Node.js is ideal
• Python or a comparable language
• gRPC / GraphQL / Websockets
• Deployment & infrastructure tools (Ideally experience with Docker, Kubernetes)
• Superlative problem-solving skills and an innate ability to break complex technical problems into actionable items
• Strong written and oral communication skills;
• Stakeholder management

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