Senior Front End Full Stack Developer - VP

Barclays•Jefferson, CO

22h•$170,000 - $230,000•Onsite

About The Position

Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Front End Full Stack Developer - VP. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. This is a unique opportunity to shape and enhance one of Barclays' most business-critical trading platforms. Working closely with front-office stakeholders, you will design and deliver high-performance solutions that directly support revenue generation, drive client growth, and influence business outcomes. The role provides significant exposure, end-to-end ownership, and the chance to make a measurable impact from day one. As a key member of the engineering team, you will leverage deep expertise in UI performance optimization, including efficient state management, real-time data streaming, rendering optimization, and the ability to process and visualize hundreds of thousands of transactions with ultra-low latency. You will also champion engineering excellence through automation, implementing comprehensive test strategies, CI/CD best practices, and quality engineering principles to enable the rapid, reliable, and frequent delivery of high-quality features.

Requirements

Expertise in Angular, TypeScript, and modern web technologies, with a proven ability to build highly responsive, scalable, and intuitive front-office applications that deliver exceptional user experiences in demanding trading environments
Ample full-stack development experience with Java and the Spring ecosystem, designing and delivering scalable, resilient, and low-latency solutions that support high-volume, real-time trading workflows and business-critical operations
Deep expertise in UI performance engineering, including advanced state management, real-time data streaming, rendering optimization, and the ability to process, visualize, and manage hundreds of thousands of transactions with minimal latency and maximum reliability
Considerable understanding of real-time messaging and event-driven architectures, including technologies such as WebSocket, Kafka, and Solace, with hands-on experience building highly responsive applications that consume, process, and visualize live market data.
Proven ability to design and integrate RESTful APIs, with a focus on performance, scalability, security, and interoperability across distributed systems
Passion for engineering excellence and automation, driving quality through comprehensive test automation, CI/CD best practices, and modern software engineering principles to enable the rapid, reliable, and continuous delivery of high-quality products and features

Nice To Haves

Experience leveraging AI-assisted software development tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, or similar technologies to enhance engineering productivity, accelerate delivery cycles, improve code quality, and streamline testing, documentation, and development workflows
Hands-on experience with AG Grid or comparable enterprise-grade data grid frameworks, including advanced customization, management of large-scale datasets, real-time market data visualization, and performance optimization in high-volume, low-latency environments
Knowledge of electronic trading platforms and capital markets, with an understanding of equities, derivatives, and related trading workflows. Familiarity with the needs of Traders, Sales, Client Service, and Run-the-Bank (RTB) teams operating in fast-paced front-office environments is highly desirable
Proven ability to partner closely with Traders, Sales, Client Service, Product, and Engineering stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into intuitive, highly tailored user experiences, delivering innovative solutions at pace while maintaining a considerable focus on usability and performance

Responsibilities

Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.
Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.