UI Engineer - Global Trading Applications (Fintech)

TL;DR

UI Engineer (Global Trading Applications): Design and build complex, workflow-driven user interfaces using TypeScript and React for trading and control platforms with an accent on scalable front-end architecture and integration with real-time backend systems. Focus on translating sophisticated trading and compliance workflows into intuitive, high-performance user experiences, optimizing performance, and ensuring architectural consistency.

Location: New York

Salary: $175,000 - $350,000

Company

Leading global market maker providing liquidity across fixed income and equity securities to institutional clients.

What you will do

• Design and build complex, workflow-driven user interfaces using TypeScript and React
• Develop scalable front-end architecture for large-scale trading and control systems
• Integrate UI components with backend services in C++, Python, and real-time data systems like KDB+/Q
• Translate trading and compliance workflows into intuitive, high-performance user experiences
• Drive performance optimization, maintainability, and architectural consistency
• Collaborate with traders, business control, surveillance, regulatory operations, and backend teams

Requirements

• Strong expertise in TypeScript and React
• Expertise building and maintaining tooling for TypeScript projects (build systems, testing frameworks, developer workflows)
• Experience building large-scale, production-grade front-end applications
• Deep understanding of UI architecture, state management, and performance optimization
• Experience integrating with distributed or real-time backend systems
• Product-oriented mindset to work directly with business users, gather requirements, and deliver scalable solutions
• UX expertise designing intuitive applications for complex, real-time data
• Ability to operate without dedicated UI design support
• Strong communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience in financial services, trading systems, or complex workflow platforms

Culture & Benefits

• Build high-impact platforms used by trading and control teams in global markets
• Collaborate with top-tier engineers and business stakeholders
• Solve technically challenging problems in real-time, high-performance environments
• Discretionary incentive compensation program
• Medical and life insurance, retirement and tax-free savings plans, other healthcare programs