Old Mission is a global proprietary trading firm that leverages state-of-the-art technology and research to identify and execute profitable trading strategies across multiple asset classes around the world. Our offices in Chicago, New York, and London are all composed of naturally-curious individuals who thrive in a team environment and constantly strive for improvement.

Old Mission does not seek capital from outside investors, allowing us the flexibility to aggressively invest in our team members and keep them engaged in the firm’s growth.

About the Position

As a Senior Front End Engineer at Old Mission, you will help solve large scale, complex technical challenges and will build cutting edge, performant, and scalable frontend systems to help make a best-in-class trading experience for our end users. You’ll work with traders, quantitative researchers, and other developers to build new systems and help improve existing ones, as well as work with our risk and security teams to ensure what you build is safe and trustworthy - all while not compromising on user experience.

Responsibilities

Articulate and contribute towards a long term technical direction for maintaining and scaling our frontend systems
Build out performant & intuitive trading interfaces using modern web tools like Typescript, React, Redux, Jest, and Webpack
Mentor and train other developers on coding standards and design philosophy
Design internal tools to increase efficiency of data mining, risk management, and more

Required Skills

At least 4 years of experience developing and shipping web applications using modern, component-based JavaScript frameworks like React
A desire to work closely with users, gather feedback, and understand their problems
Experience shipping products from start to finish
Great communication skills along with a team player mentality
Keep up with modern front end best practices including trends in performance, usability, and security
Write high quality, well tested code

Nice to haves

Experience with automated testing and building
Experience with Websockets & Protocol Buffers
Experience with Linux, Postgres
Experience building multi-window frontend applications, web workers, OpenGL, Canvas API

Benefits and Perks

Competitive salary with discretionary annual bonus
Fully paid Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, and Life Insurance
Fully stocked kitchen; free breakfast and lunch every day on-site
Tuition Reimbursement Program
401(k) with employer match
Flexible Spending Plan
Commuter Benefit Program

Old Mission is not accepting unsolicited resumes from any staffing/search firms. All resumes submitted by staffing/search firms to any employee at Old Mission via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid signed search agreement will be deemed the sole property of Old Mission, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Old Mission.