Software Engineer - UI/UX

Schonfeld • NY

215d • $185,000 - $205,000

About The Position

We’re looking for a UI Engineer to join our team and play a critical role in building and shaping the firm’s internal UI platform. This is a high-impact, hands-on engineering position where you’ll contribute not just as a front-end specialist, but also as a platform strategist – helping to evolve our UI infrastructure powering 100+ business applications across the firm. You’ll work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where product requirements evolve, and business stakeholders are deeply engaged. Your engineering skills, UX sensibility, and product mindset will all be utilized as you craft industry-leading UI platform and ecosystems.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of professional experience in front-end engineering.
• Expertise in React, TypeScript, HTML, CSS and modern web development toolkits.
• Experience working with REST APIs, WebSockets, and event-driven architectures.
• Strong familiarity with common enterprise JavaScript frameworks, such as Redux, Zustand, RxJS, D3, AgGrid or Highcharts.
• Experience working with both relational (Postgres, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB).
• Expertise with low-latency, distributed caches such as Redis or Memcached.
• Proficiency in writing unit tests and E2E tests utilizing popular frameworks like RTL, Mocha, Jest, Cypress, Playwright.
• A track record of developing data-intensive, scalable applications with strong usability and performance.
• A thoughtful approach to problem-solving; Ability to break down complex issues methodically.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in building internal tools for trading, analytics, or compliance in Finance or Fintech businesses.
• Experience with AWS cloud services (EC2), Kubernetes-driven deployments, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience designing and operating high-throughput, event-driven data pipelines on Apache Kafka or Apache Spark.
• Experience implementing or maintaining design systems.
• Familiarity with React-based micro-frontend architectures and patterns for building modular UI.
• Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Go, Python, Java, Rust.
• Excellent communication skills; Able to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Be a key contributor to our UI platform and a technical partner to product owners building on top of it.
• Help evolve our technical stack and development tools by contributing to architectural improvements, shared components, and implementation consistency across cross-functional teams.
• Work closely with product teams and business stakeholders, helping shape feature definitions, and building high-impact UI solutions directly into their applications.
• Span full-stack development responsibilities, including web front-end, backend integration, API design, performance optimization, and system observability.
• Involve in the team’s code quality and best practices, mentor junior engineers, identify gaps in development lifecycles, and continuously improve both the core platform and how developers build with it.

Benefits

• Performance bonus
• Competitive benefits package

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees