Senior UI/Typescript Engineer

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk.

Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets.

We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it’s not just what we do that matters–it’s how we do it. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.

A rapidly expanding global trading desk is looking for a Senior UI/Typescript Engineer to join their team in London. We are a small but rapidly-growing development team within DRW rebuilding existing tools from the ground up and creating completely new ones. These applications are mission-critical and used daily by our traders whom we work directly with. Our code is all written in the latest version of TypeScript and our applications are powered by React.

Responsibilities:

• Work on a small team as a self-starter
• Work with other developers and end-users to consolidate data and present it in an attractive, intuitive interface
• Create tools and workflows that enable exploratory research
• Develop data exploration products from inception to production, identifying business needs, and product evangelism
• Craft APIs that enable research productivity
• Architect and build platform software with a focus on developer experience and user experience
• Build systems to enable automated testing of systematic trading web-applications and deployment into our production trading environment
• Provide mentorship for junior developers and institute high standards and best practices through structured feedback
• Collaborate with your peers at DRW as a subject matter expert to learn & contribute to research work across the firm

You’ll be right at home if you have:

• An entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to work directly with your software’s users
• Leadership skills and a team-orientated mentality
• Experience working in the trading industry, or a similarly demanding industry, developing business critical applications

Required Technical Experience

• At least 5 years of experience with web development in a modern front-end framework (React, Angular, Lit, Vue, etc)
• Great working knowledge of Typescript and CSS
• A desire to learn and teach others
• Able to manage complex state management paradigms
• Strong API design and data modeling skills
• Practiced in functional programming and building asynchronous and event-based applications
• User Experience design skills for data-dense Financial/B2B applications, with an appreciation for design systems/component libraries
• Experience writing software with large datasets and high availability
• A keen understanding of browser performance optimization techniques
• Best practices for client-side code testing using tooling such as Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, Puppeteer, React Testing Library, etc
• Familiarity with AG Grid and common charting libraries (HighCharts, D3, etc)
• Experience with at least one "back-end" programming language (Python, Java, C++, C#, Rust, etc.)

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