Front end React/ Typescript developer
Quick Overview
Job Description
In this role, you will own the design and development of a modern React frontend which integrates with a Spring Boot backend, enabling financial analysts and quants to model securities quickly, accurately, and intuitively. You ll work closely with business stakeholders, quantitative analysts, and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver high-impact solutions in a financial environment.
Key Responsibilities
Frontend Development: Design and build responsive, performant UIs in React (with TypeScript preferred) that allow users to configure, run, and visualize results across multiple security types.
Code Quality & Testing: Write clean, maintainable code backed by comprehensive automated tests using React Testing Library / Jest, with strong unit and integration coverage.
Technical Debt & Continuous Improvement: Proactively identify and resolve defects, reduce technical debt, and champion software engineering best practices across the codebase.
Collaboration & Delivery: Coordinate across the full stack data, services, APIs, and infrastructure to deliver end-to-end.
Design & Code Reviews: Actively contribute to architecture discussions, pull request reviews, and technical documentation with a focus on thoughtful, scalable design.
Required Qualifications
5+ years of professional software development experience, with strong proficiency in TypeScript and React, including component architecture, state management (e.g., Redux, Zustand, or React Query), and API integration.
2-3 years of experience with Git in a collaborative, team-based development workflow (branching strategies, PRs, code reviews).
Strong communication skills with the ability to bridge technical and business conversations.
Demonstrated critical thinking, problem-solving ability.
Preferred Qualifications
Graduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related quantitative discipline.
Familiarity with relational databases and writing complex SQL queries.
Experience with message brokers or event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) in a financial services context.
Experience developing a Spring Boot backend
Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform) and CI/CD pipeline tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.).
Experience using JIRA or similar tools for Agile planning, sprint tracking, and delivery management.
Prior experience in financial services, capital markets, or fintech environments.
Proficiency with shell scripting for automation, deployment support, and operational troubleshooting.
Working knowledge of fixed income concepts: duration, convexity, spread, option-adjusted spread (OAS), and related derivatives.
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