⚛️ React Engineer – Leading Buy-Side Investment Firm
📍 London (Hybrid)
💸 Up to £180,000 + Bonus + Comprehensive Benefits
🚀 The Opportunity
A prestigious investment firm is seeking a talented React Engineer to help build the next generation of front-end applications supporting trading, pricing, and quantitative research workflows.
This is an opportunity to work at the intersection of modern web technology and quantitative finance, developing highly responsive, data-intensive applications that enable real-time decision-making across global markets. You'll collaborate closely with traders, quantitative researchers, and engineers to deliver mission-critical systems in a fast-paced, technology-driven environment.
🔧 What You'll Be Doing
* Design, develop, and maintain high-performance front-end applications using React and modern JavaScript frameworks
* Build intuitive, data-rich user interfaces for trading, analytics, and pricing platforms
* Integrate front-end applications with real-time data feeds and backend services
* Collaborate with engineers, quants, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, production-grade solutions
* Contribute to UI architecture, performance optimisation, and overall user experience
🌟 Why Join?
⚛️ Build Mission-Critical Applications
Develop sophisticated front-end systems that directly support investment and trading decisions.
📊 Work with Complex, Real-Time Data
Create highly interactive applications capable of handling large volumes of live market data.
🧠 Exceptional Colleagues
Collaborate with world-class engineers, quantitative researchers, and trading professionals.
🚀 Modern Engineering Environment
Work with cutting-edge technologies, best practices, and a culture that values technical excellence.
💼 Outstanding Compensation & Career Growth
Benefit from highly competitive compensation, performance-based bonuses, and a meritocratic environment that rewards impact and innovation.
✅ What We're Looking For
* Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related STEM discipline
* 1+ years of professional software engineering experience
* Strong commercial experience with React and modern front-end development
* Solid understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript, UI architecture, and web application performance
* Familiarity with Agile development practices, Git, and CI/CD workflows
* Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
➕ Nice to Have
* Experience with Python or other backend technologies
* Exposure to financial markets, trading systems, or data-intensive applications
* Experience working with real-time data visualisation and analytics platforms
📩 Interested?
If you're looking to apply your front-end expertise to complex, high-impact systems while working alongside some of the industry's brightest minds, we'd love to hear from you.
📧 Apply now or reach out directly for a confidential discussion: