Job Title: Senior UI Developer
Location: NYC
About the Role:
I'm partnered with a leading HFT Firm seeking a highly skilled UI Developer to support their fixed-income trading business. The ideal candidate will work closely with traders, quants, and engineers to build responsive, intuitive, and high-performance front-end interfaces that enable real-time interaction with complex trading systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop high-performance user interfaces for internal trading platforms and real-time data visualization systems.
- Collaborate with traders, quants, and back-end engineers to gather requirements and translate them into efficient, user-friendly interfaces.
- Optimize UI performance to handle real-time data feeds, low-latency environments, and heavy user interactions.
- Implement responsive design principles, ensuring seamless functionality across different devices and screen sizes.
- Design and maintain complex dashboards and monitoring tools that display large sets of real-time financial data.
- Troubleshoot and debug front-end issues in high-pressure production environments, ensuring reliability and uptime of UI systems.
Skills and Qualifications:
- 3+ years of experience in UI/Front-end development, ideally in a fast-paced, data-driven environment such as finance or trading.
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, IT, Mathematics or a related area.
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and React.
- Familiarity with backend technologies (e.g., Node.js, Python, REST APIs) and data storage solutions (e.g., Redis, Kafka) for data streaming and integration.
- Strong grasp of HTML5, CSS3, and responsive design principles.
- Experience with version control systems (Git) and working within a collaborative, Agile development environment.
- Ability to manage and deliver multiple projects in a high-pressure, high-stakes environment.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.