Frontend Developer

Our client, a leading commodity trading firm, seeks an experienced Front-End Developer to join their trading technology team, building high-performance real-time interfaces for traders and front-office users using React.

• Design, build and maintain sophisticated front-end applications using React.
• Develop high-performance user interfaces for displaying real-time market data.
• Build interactive dashboards, charting solutions and data visualisations.
• Integrate and customise charting libraries, including TradingView where appropriate.
• Consume and display live market data via WebSockets and APIs.
• Work closely with traders, quantitative analysts and back-end engineers to deliver new functionality.
• Optimise front-end applications for performance, scalability and responsiveness.
• Contribute to UI architecture and continuously improve the user experience.

• Strong commercial experience with React and modern JavaScript (ES6+).
• Proven experience building sophisticated front-end applications and user interfaces.
• Experience developing real-time, data-driven applications.
• Experience building market data visualisation tools, dashboards or charting applications.
• Strong understanding of WebSockets, APIs and live data streaming.
• Solid knowledge of HTML5, CSS3 and modern front-end architecture.
• Experience optimising front-end performance for data-intensive applications.
• Experience using Git and modern development workflows.
• TypeScript experience (desirable).