Full Stack Engineer

Software Engineer Full Stack (Frontend-Leaning)

Location: New York City (SoHo) In-Person

About Our Client

Our client is building the next-generation platform for institutional finance. The OTC derivatives market moves trillions of dollars daily on infrastructure that hasnt meaningfully evolved in decadesthis team is modernizing that foundation with a delightful user experience a modern cloud-native stack and an AI-native architecture designed for how financial services will operate over the next 1020 years.

The team comes from trading quantitative and engineering roles at top-tier financial institutions and theyre building systems capable of processing complex high-stakes transactions across global markets. Their customers include sophisticated banks hedge funds and asset managersmeaning the problems are hard the expectations are high and the impact is real.

Tech Stack

• Cloud-native architecture (serverless-first) Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

• Backend services in Python and Java

• Frontend in TypeScript / React

• AI tooling leveraging modern foundation models

• Automated SDLC with tools like GitHub Logfire Vercel and rapid intraday deployment practices

The Role

Our client is hiring a Full Stack Software Engineer with a frontend focus to help build and scale the systems powering a derivatives and capital markets platform. Youll translate financial and business requirements into reliable scalable user-friendly product experiencesworking closely with engineers and stakeholders in a fast-moving environment.

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys building polished front-end experiences while still being comfortable going full stack when needed.

What Youll Do

• Build and maintain high-performance React/TypeScript applications used by institutional finance teams

• Develop responsive accessible and data-rich UI experiences (tables workflows analytics views)

• Partner with product and design to translate complex workflows into intuitive user journeys

• Integrate with backend services (Python/Java) through REST and/or GraphQL APIs

• Contribute to scalable architecture clean code practices testing and deployment automation

• Help enhance platform reliability and performance in a high-expectation high-velocity environment

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics Financial Engineering or related field

• In-person in NYC (SoHo)

• Strong proficiency in React and modern JavaScript/TypeScript

• Experience building responsive accessible data-driven frontend applications

• Working knowledge of backend development in Python Java or similar languages

• Experience with databases (e.g. MongoDB or other object/document databases)

• Experience integrating with RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and deployment (AWS GCP or Azure)

• Strong software design fundamentals across frontend and backend

• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally (engineering product design)

• Strong debugging problem-solving and communication skills

Bonus Qualifications

• Financial systems knowledge: reference data pricing market data integrations

• Experience with trade capture valuation risk or post-trade workflows

• Familiarity with derivatives FX or fixed income products

• Experience with reconciliation and operational data pipelines

• Prior experience supporting institutional clients in capital markets

• Experience building or integrating Generative AI (OpenAI Anthropic Gemini) into financial applications

What Success Looks Like (First 90 Days)

• Ship meaningful frontend improvements that reduce friction in core workflows

• Build confidence with the domain (OTC derivatives post-trade lifecycle) and the platform architecture

• Improve UI performance reliability and developer velocity through clean patterns and automation

• Become a trusted owner of key product surfaces used by sophisticated institutional customers

Required Experience:

IC