Overview
Our client, a leading commodity trading firm, is seeking an experienced Front-End Developer to enhance their trading technology team. In this role, you will be instrumental in developing high-performance, real-time user interfaces that present complex market data effectively to traders and front-office users. You will collaborate closely with a dynamic team including traders and quantitative analysts to deliver innovative functionality for interactive applications and dashboards.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain sophisticated front-end applications using React.
- Develop high-performance user interfaces for displaying real-time market data.
- Build interactive dashboards, charting solutions and data visualisations.
- Integrate and customise charting libraries, including TradingView where appropriate.
- Consume and display live market data via WebSockets and APIs.
- Collaborate with traders, quantitative analysts and back-end engineers to deliver new functionality.
- Optimise front-end applications for performance, scalability and responsiveness.
- Contribute to UI architecture and continuously improve the user experience.
Requirements
- Strong commercial experience with React and modern JavaScript (ES6+).
- Proven experience building sophisticated front-end applications and user interfaces.
- Experience developing real-time, data-driven applications.
- Experience building market data visualisation tools, dashboards or charting applications.
- Strong understanding of WebSockets, APIs and live data streaming.
- Solid knowledge of HTML5, CSS3 and modern front-end architecture.
- Experience optimising front-end performance for data-intensive applications.
- Experience using Git and modern development workflows.