Front End Engineer - UI/UX (Hybrid - NYC)

Front-End Engineer – Contractor Role (optional extension or conversion)

Location: New York

Length: 6-months

Responsibilities

• Develop solutions that enable our client facing investment professionals to research, monitor, and trade in real-time on internal/external information. This includes gathering requirements, prototyping solutions, and delivering final products that optimize users workflows and interactions across the investment process.
• Partner with the industry’s top analysts, traders, quantitative researchers, and data scientists to design, develop, and deploy solutions that answer fundamental questions about financial markets.
• Visualize financial data in a way that will allow investment professionals to discover new insights, improve research processes, and decision-making.
• Drive our evolution by challenging the status quo and identifying opportunities to enhance our platform.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of work experience, ideally within client/customer facing UX/UI development experience.
• Passion for working with users and developing solutions that deliver amazing user experience (multi-tenants, real-time, high performance web applications)
• Experience with any of the following: React, Angular, Redux, Electron, WebAssembly, Node.js.
• Experience with wire-framing, prototyping and user-centric design.
• Proficiency with JavaScript (ES6) and TypeScript.
• Proficiency with HTML5 (Canvas, WebWorkers, WebSockets), CSS3, SASS.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills.
• Bachelor’s, Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.