Lead UI Developer

Job Title

Responsible for implementation and delivery of new UI features, services and enhancements to the BestX product. Exhibit superior skills in modern Agile, Cloud-based, Web Development. Develop understanding in the area of Transaction Cost Analysis and key benchmarks required for MiFID and MiFIR. Responsible for maintaining and enhancing the application and influencing technology decisions. Responsible for taking ownership of tasks and seeing them through completion. Responsible for establishing best practices, clean-code and design patterns. Be passionate about driving change through an organization. A proponent of Test Driven Development always striving to Shift Left so as to facilitate effective CI/CD.

Qualifications:

• Individual should have at least a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and/or equivalent
• Individual should have at least 6 or more years of demonstrated hands-on experience building state-of-the-art and high performance web front ends using React and/or Angular JavaScript frameworks.
• 10+ Years Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design, distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases such as PostGres
• 7+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
• Proven knowledge/expertise in FX/Fixed Income/Equity/ Equity Derivatives products
• Hands-on experience in building multi-platform UI products with effective interaction and innovative user journeys.
• Solid understanding of the modern JavaScript build tool chain using things like node, npm, rush, yarn, webpack, babel
• Hands-on experience working with Javascript, TypeScript, Websocket, React, Angular, Material UI, and REST APIs.
• Hands-on experience working with AWS and/or other modern cloud based infrastructure.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• For UI resource my top 3 are : React, Angular, Nodejs
• For Server side looking for experience in FIX, messaging service, caching technologies and hands experience in AWS

What are the top 3 must-haves you will be looking for in the resumes/interviews for this role? What type of software skills is an absolute must have? - React, Angular, Nodejs

What will the interview process look like (phone screen, face to face, meet with team, how many rounds, etc)? Is there a test in the interview the candidate should be prepared for? – 2/3 rounds and web interviews

What are the working hours, time zone? – 8-5PM EST. Hybrid, 3 days a week onsite.

What is the duration of this contract and is there a chance it will be extended? – 1 year with the possibility to extend

What training will be provided for this contractor and what are first day expectations? – Training product / code walkthrough etc will be provided

What is the day to day of the person going to look like? Please be specific. – Development and testing of features they implement