Lead UI Developer - VP

Description

The company is a major market maker and a global leader across Fixed Income markets. Its primary Fixed Income trading platform, Unified Fixed Income Trade Processing (FITP), handles Derivatives, Cash, Exotics and SFT products for more than 3800 trading, sales and middle office users worldwide.

The platform runs on a modern technology stack, processes about 200,000 transactions a day, and provides real-time position and risk management. It connects to over 100 electronic trading venues and more than 20 regulators worldwide.

The team builds the trading application and is moving it toward smaller services and fully automated CI/CD pipelines to bring features to market faster. The role offers exposure to Fixed Income trading and work on a large, modern platform with a global footprint.

Knowledge of Fixed Income and Derivatives products is helpful but not required, since the role sits within the Fixed Income Trade Processing team.

Good working knowledge of AI tools such as CoPilot and Devin is important.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of robust, testable code that meets requirements.
• Work with several teams to integrate functions correctly, and identify and define system enhancements that support new products and process improvements.
• Solve complex, high-impact problems by closely evaluating business processes, system processes and industry standards.
• Develop non-functional features that improve reliability, scalability and performance.
• Bring deep application programming expertise and make sure application design follows the overall architecture blueprint.
• Set standards for coding, testing, debugging and implementation, drawing on a detailed understanding of system flow.
• Understand how business areas such as architecture and infrastructure work together to reach business goals.
• Analyse issues in depth and devise original solutions.
• Advise and coach mid-level developers and analysts, and assign their work as needed.
• Weigh risk when making business decisions, protecting the firm's reputation, its clients and its assets, and report control issues openly.

Requirements

• 12+ years of relevant experience in application development.
• Experience with system analysis and writing software applications, especially for performance and testability of components.
• Primary skills: HTML5 and JavaScript (React, Node.js), plus solid knowledge of standard web development concepts.
• Experience working on a mature codebase in a large collaborative environment, and proposing ideas that challenge current practices.
• Demonstrated leadership skills.
• Ability to stay proactive and reset priorities quickly.
• Bachelor's degree or university degree, or equivalent experience.
• Nice to have: C,.NET Framework.
• Preferred: Master's degree.
• Familiarity with Fixed Income products is a plus.

Conditions

Full-time position in the Technology job family, Applications Development group.

Base salary range is $120,800.00 to $170,800.00.

The company uses automated processing, including AI, to match candidate skills to job openings and, with consent, to other suitable roles. All hiring decisions are made and checked by people, not by automated decision-making.

This is an existing vacancy.

Equal opportunity employer; see the company's EEO policy statement and Know Your Rights poster.