Lead UI Developer (Finance)

TL;DR

Lead UI Developer (Finance): Developing a trader toolbox for a boutique investment management firm with an accent on building flexible tools for analyzing market data. Focus on collaborating with internal teams to create and visualize metrics and backtest ideas.

Location: Onsite in London or Helsinki

Company

A boutique investment management and advisory firm specializing in fixed income and relative value strategies.

What you will do

• Develop and expand an internal UI enabling traders to create and visualize metrics and backtest ideas over historical data
• Work directly with internal end-users, the quant team, and the trading team
• Rapidly create new features through fast iteration and prototyping
• Participate in architectural discussions for scalable systems
• Support production systems and contribute to weekly releases

Requirements

• Strong background in computer science
• Experience with MS Windows UI frameworks (e.g., Win32, WinForms, WPF, Qt)
• Experience in C#, or a strong background in Java or C++
• Ability to understand the business context and develop solutions supporting trading functions
• Hands-on, pragmatic approach to software development
• Experience building UIs for trading analytics or related applications

Nice to have

• Experience with web UI frameworks (e.g., Blazor Hybrid, Blazor)
• Previous exposure to fixed-income markets
• Use of Python for quantitative finance tasks
• Familiarity with tools like Quantower, NinjaTrader, or MetaTrader

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a small, agile, and globally distributed technology team
• Opportunity to be the first developer hire in the Finnish office

Hiring process

• Intro call with hirify.global
• Introductory call with the company
• Technical interview with test task
• Meeting in the office