Senior Frontend Engineer (AI-Accelerated, Financial Systems)

Kroll • New York, NY

1d

About The Position

Our team is building a global platform for illiquid asset management, running on Azure and Kubernetes, with a modern React frontend and backend stack spanning C# and Python APIs. Our system interfaces heavily with SQL server, including legacy business logic embedded in stored procedures. We are looking for a Senior Front-end Engineer who amplifies their output using AI tools, and who has experience building financial or highly-data intensive enterprise systems in cloud-native environments. This is a frontend-primary role for an engineer who can rapidly design, build, and ship high-quality UI systems in a complex, domain-heavy environment.

Requirements

• Five (5) + years of frontend engineering experience
• Deep expertise in Reach and modern frontend architecture
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript / JavaScript
• Strong proficiency in State management (Redux, Zustand, or similar)
• Experience with API integration (REST, GraphQL is a plus)
• Experience building data-heavy, enterprise-grade applications
• Experience building financial platforms or data-intensive systems, such as: asset management platforms, trading systems, portfolio analytics tools, and risk, valuation or reporting systems
• Strong understanding of complex domain workflows and data models
• Ability to translate domain complexity into clear, usable UI
• Familiarity with the Azure ecosystem (DevOps, pipelines, cloud-hosted environments)
• Practical, hands-on experience using AI tools in your daily development workflow
• Ability to pilot AI agents and orchestrate multi-step AI-assisted tasks and a proven track record of shipping production-quality code with AI assistance
• Strong ability to work across complex systems and ambiguous requirements and collaborate with backend teams
• Strong UX intuition for complex, data-driven applications

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with C# and/or Python backend systems
• Experience building or maintaining design systems is a plus

Responsibilities

• Lead development of complex, data-intensive UI features using React and TypeScript
• Build scalable, maintainable component architectures and design systems
• Translate complex backend and financial logic (including SQL-heavy workflows) into intuitive user experiences
• Collaborate closely with backend teams (C#, Python APIs) to design clean, efficient API contracts
• Optimize frontend performance, state management, and rendering efficiency
• Operate as an AI-augmented engineer, using modern AI tools to significantly increase your development speed and quality – while maintaining strong engineering fundamentals
• Use AI tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc.) to scaffold components and accelerate day-to-day development
• Pilot and orchestrate AI agents to handle multi-step engineering tasks, refactor and modularize codebases efficiently using AI assistance
• Rapidly prototype and iterate on UI/UX flows, produce and maintain automated test coverage with AI-generated support
• Debug performance and state issues using AI-driven workflows, know when AI helps and when to write it yourself
• Build interfaces aligned to real-world financial and investment workflows
• Design for complex use cases such as portfolio management, asset tracking, valuation or reporting while reducing friction in data-heavy user journeys
• Optimize for usability, speed, and minimal cognitive load while partnering with product and domain experts to eliminate workflow bottlenecks
• Build and operative effectively in Azure -hosted, Kubernetes-based environments
• Understand how frontend systems interact with containerized backend services
• Work within distributed architectures and understand performance implications end-to-end

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Generous paid time off (PTO), paid company holidays, generous parental and family leave.
• Life insurance, short- and long-term disability coverage, and accident protection.
• Competitive salary structures, performance-based incentives, and merit-based compensation reviews.
• 401(k) plans with company matching.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed