Lead Front-End Developer
Currently, we are looking for a remote Lead FE/FS Developer to join our team.
Our client is one of the biggest hedge funds in the world managing investments for a wide array of institutional clients, including foreign governments and central banks, corporate and public pension funds, university endowments, and charitable foundations.
Each member of the team will deeply understand product & business problems for managing all of the hedge fund’s trade generation activity. Our goal is to build highly functional and intuitive techniques for these processes which ultimately drive, scale, and enable our investment processes.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of senior developers
- Developing extremely sophisticated tools and collaborating with some of hedge fund’s most sophisticated investors – we don’t have a product for casual users, but instead, we have products that empower a handful of the world’s sharpest and most engaging minds
- Operating within a dynamic team focused on full-stack development but also working with engineers from several different areas of focus
- Act like an owner consistently holding a high bar for the quality of your code and are passionate about doing things the “right way”
- Anticipate problems and complications, and formulate solutions to unblock the progress of the project
- Act as an owner, assume responsibilities and drive issues to resolution
- Can react to a mission-critical problem in an excellent way, and not sacrificing quality over speed
- Be open-minded, appreciate direct feedback, and revel in intellectually rigorous environments
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software development experience in technically rigorous environments holding extremely high bars for their engineers
- Experience with both frontend and backend engineering
- Minimum skill gate for candidate:
- Experienced in JavaScript and confident in at least one popular front-end framework (React, Angular, Backbone)
- Front-end Development - React, TypeScript, JSON over HTTP, Protocol Buffers, Bazel, OIDC for auth
- Java experience is a plus
- Strong algorithmic and debugging skill
- Understands SDLC, Agile, and Design patterns
