Lead Web UI Developer (React)
Lead Web UI Developer (React)
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31-05-2025
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Job Description
Lab49 is an award winning specialist consultancy that creates bespoke technology in partnership with the most important companies in finance.
We were founded in 2002 to bring Silicon Valley solutions to Wall Streets door. Since then we have worked on successive waves of technological change including distributed computing high-speed automation enterprise UX and digital distribution (for which Lab49 was among the first significant practices established on Wall Street) DevOps cloud and data science.
Today we are an established partner in financial markets having delivered hundreds of projects for clients including all the worlds tier-one investment banks and many of the largest buy-side firms globally.
Being part of Lab49 means bringing your drive and creativity into an environment where your contributions will make immediate impact. Engineers work in cross functional teams consulting directly with our clients shaping not only technical solutions to business problems but delivering them into production.
We are seeking a Lead UI Developer working with our clients in the high frequency trading space. Your close collaboration with both our existing team and our clients team is essential to both make progress against an existing backlog of work for a custom trading UI but also manage the ecosystem of UI products in our clients tech environment. You will report to the Interactive Practice Head and help drive the direction of UI engineering across Lab49.
Responsibilities:
- Act as ahands-on engineer and architect andto support work across the UI & Mobile Engineering Practice; from small initiatives all the way up to the design and build of complex systems.
- Lead and participate in projects directly serving as a role model for project teams and working with all other practices to ensure successful project outcome.
- Lead engineers and stakeholders to ensure appropriate progress and results; must be commercial in approach.
- Develop strong relationships with clients as a strategic partner and technical advisor helping us to expand our footprint and secure follow-on work.
- Partner with and support the business development team to create and deliver compelling pitches that help define the problem captivate the client present a solution and work out the engagement (scope structure deliverables) terms.
- Build and reinforce your professional network through active engagement in industry events public speaking opportunities etc.
- Provide thought leadership for the UI & Mobile Engineering Practiceand actively encourage learning and development.
- Help drive the ongoing effort to find attract interview and hire top software engineering talent.
- People Management including coaching mentoring and performance management of employees may be included in this role.
Required Skills and Experience :
- 10 years of commercial-grade web/front-end development experience.
- Strong experience in modern JavaScript ideally TypeScript building web applications with modern frameworks such as React Angular and/or Vue. Primary experience in React or Vue required and this role will have React and/or Vue development tasks based on priority.
- Solid skills interacting with multiple types of API formats preferably REST and GraphQL but additional skills with Websockets would be desired.
- Contribute to the design process from gathering requirements planning and ideating from the start of a project.
- Demonstrate an understanding of user behavior and how to tailor web experiences to meet the needs of users.
- Work with designers and other partners to collaborate on design & wireframing and take responsibility for delivering high-quality implementations.
- Experience with Agile development methodologies.
- Strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
- Demonstrable team leadership experience.
- Knowledge of and strong demonstrated interest in global financial markets and financial products is a strong plus.
- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science Engineering Physics Math or related work experience.
Bonus points:
- Experience working in trading firms specifically fixed income trading exposure
- Exposure to C
Why Lab49
Lab49 is an established partner for most financial institutions on Wall Street. You will gain exposure into a variety of environments business domains technologies and people. Your ability to bring drive and creativity to the role will be the key component to success at Lab49. The broad and intense exposure to a variety of challenges accelerates your career growth and Lab49s structure is designed to enable you to learn and grow as an engineer and consultant.
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