1219: Front End Software Engineer

Front End Software Engineer will be working on creating the most cutting edge, institutional grade trading and clearing system to power the next generation digital asset exchange. You will work closely with other technologists and trading experts to design, develop, and improve on our critical trading and clearing systems.

The systems will facilitate operations groups that support trading and price discovery by enabling market participants to connect, submit orders, and process market data to make trading decisions. They must be designed with high availability and high performance as a key requirement.

Responsibilities

Ensure high quality software is delivered

Design, develop, and maintain administrative systems for trading and clearing web applications

Recommend improvements to UI/UX and customer experience

Understand exchange business and priorities

Support software in production as needed

Experience

Experience with client-side software development, building single-page web applications

2+ years of experience

Experience designing algorithms and data structures

Experience in a web-based retail focused industry

Proven experience solving complicated, open ended problems

Hands on experience building financial systems is a plus

Skills

Knowledge and experience working with with mainstream frameworks like React.js or Angular JS

Solid knowledge JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Node.js

Experience with Typescript is a definite bonus. Willingness to use Typescript is a must

Practical knowledge of web tooling such as Webpack, NPM, Yarn, Gulp and PostCSS

Understanding of ES6 and newer ES specifications

Experience with Typescript is a definite bonus. Willingness to use Typescript is a must

Proficient with Chrome developer tools. Knows how to diagnose and fix performance issues

Passionate about building distributed, scalable, reliable, services

Knowledge of concurrency, resiliency, caching, HTTP and REST

Experience working in an Agile environment (Scrum, Kanban)

Linux

Source control management

Strong interest in trading and finance

Highly motivated, collaborative, self starter