Senior UI Developer

TP ICAP Group Plc.•New York, NY

33d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior UI Software Engineer will provide technical leadership on TP ICAP's flagship Fusion platform. This includes the Fusion Platform UI team and setting the standards and direction of other UI Engineers across several teams. They will demonstrate the benefits of approaches to development and delivery either through working as a team member or through group sessions. They should be the authority for decisions relating to standards and engineering best practices within their discipline. The Principal Engineer will be passionate about software development and keen to use their technical and mentoring skills to help their development team to be successful. They should be comfortable working in agile teams, foster transparent communication, have a commitment to quality, and a focus on getting things done. This role will primarily be hands-on with some management responsibility.

Requirements

Proven experience as a senior/principal engineer in high-performance trading systems or similar domains.
Demonstrable experience in HTML5, React 16/17+, Typescript4/5+, JavaScript
UI Libraries such as Material UI or Ant Design.
CSS pre-processors such as SASS and LESS
Testing frameworks e.g. Jest
Performance profiling and optimisation
Build tools such as Webpack
Code quality and governance tools such as Sonarqube.
Responsive design and cross-browser compatibility
Version control systems such as git i.e. gitlabs
Agile development methodologies i.e. Scrum
Strong communication and collaboration skills

Nice To Haves

NX / Turbo repo or a similar monorepo approach, Node JS,
Figma for mock-ups and collaboration
Design thinking
Use of Storybook
Knowledge of AWS or other cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

Architect and develop high-performance, scalable, and robust trading systems, tools, and platforms.
Lead and mentor a team of engineers, providing technical guidance and hands-on coding expertise.
Act as the primary technical leader and developer on the Fusion UI team, demonstrating strong technical competencies and acting as a dependable and high value contributor within the team such that other team members know what they should aspire to
Be an expert in modern UI Engineering using React/Typescript/JavaScript and OO design principals.
Provide technical oversight of the analysis and design for assigned projects
Design, develop, test and oversee production software solutions, including the development of highly complex systems, and modifications to existing systems
Be able to communicate the architecture and principles behind a system to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Support the use of preferred planning and prioritisation tooling (JIRA) to capture and track deliveries, identify issues and help with roadmap and iteration planning and prioritisation
Ensure the team engages in a well-defined SDLC that supports planning, prioritisation and delivery needs
Support the team through help with defining scope and guiding estimation of work to be done by leveraging previous experience
Be custodians for target state architecture and best practice within your respective development team and across the Fusion estate
Identify opportunities to evolve systems towards target state architecture and direct refactoring and prioritisation to positively influence deliveries
Work alongside Team Leaders, to provide technical leadership and direction for the development team
Participate in retrospectives and seek opportunities to drive best practice
Lead the software team to deliver high quality and innovative software solutions
Provide leadership and guidance to coach, motivate and lead team members to their optimum performance levels and career development, through both gated checks like code reviews and more supportive approaches such as mentoring or identifying stretch opportunities for team members
Guide and support team to identify and escalate risks as appropriate
Work with the Team Leaders to provide time and resource estimates, identify potential areas of risk and suggest mitigating actions
Share complex technical designs or issues with non-technical stakeholders and influence their decision making where necessary
Identify tools and methodologies to improve the effectiveness of the development process
Assist and facilitate prioritisation of software defects and enhancements
Manage risks and issues effectively with timely escalation to the project stakeholders