Senior Front End Software Engineer

Old Mission•Chicago, IL

3d•Onsite

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.

Requirements

At least 5+ years of experience developing and shipping web applications using modern, component-based JavaScript frameworks like React
Industry experience within a global trading firm or hedge fund
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

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