Lead TypeScript Engineer

Lead TypeScript Engineer

A financial giant with a bespoke platform team is hiring for a TypeScript Engineer with an ability to lead a budding team. This business has a passion for cutting-edge technology and have financed an incubator team to create platform rebuild, offering an exceptional opportunity within a leading UI focused Product business unit. As the most experienced Front-end Developer within this team, you will play a crucial role in the next phase of their growth, working on intuitive SPAs and UIs for autonomous software for a global client pool, with a focus on exceptional customer experience and reliability. All the while, you will be coaching and mentoring the team and ensuring best practises are followed.  

Must have experience:

• 5+ years' experience React and Typescript.
• SASS and any understanding of CSS-in-JS is a plus.
• Experience with Cypress, Playwright Jest for unit testing.
• Cross platform/ device UI skills.
• Experience working alongside BE developers, ideally Java/Kotlin.
• Finance domain exposure a plus (FIX, FX, Derivatives).
• Be confident prototyping and conceptualising at pace, when required.

To excel in this role, you will need a minimum of 5 years' experience working on the Front-end, with proficiency in both React and Typescript, having lead teams of 4+ people. You will need to develop your teams' professional horizons, whilst also passing on your expertise in the financial technology sector from an experienced viewpoint and be part of shaping the future of trading within the organisation.

If this sounds like the role for you, we'd love to hear from you. Please submit your CV and a covering letter to us. We look forward to hearing from you.