Senior Frontend Engineer

Budapest - Hungary

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

WorldQuant develops and deploys systematic financial strategies across a broad range of asset classes and global markets. We seek to produce high-quality predictive signals (alphas) through our proprietary research platform to employ financial strategies focused on market inefficiencies. Our teams work collaboratively to drive the production of alphas and financial strategies the foundation of a balanced global investment platform.

WorldQuant is built on a culture that pairs academic sensibility with accountability for results. Employees are encouraged to think openly about problems balancing intellectualism and practicality. Excellent ideas come from anyone anywhere. Employees are encouraged to challenge conventional thinking and possess an attitude of continuous improvement.

Our goal is to hire the best and the brightest. We value intellectual horsepower first and foremost and people who demonstrate an outstanding talent. There is no roadmap to future success so we need people who can help us build it.

Technologists at WorldQuant research design code test and deploy firmwide platforms and tooling while working collaboratively with researchers and portfolio managers. Our environment is relaxed yet intellectually driven. We seek people who think in code and are motivated by being around like-minded people.

About WorldQuant BRAIN:

BRAIN is a group within WorldQuant similar to a traditional B2C fintech setup. Our mission is to simplify quant finance and provide global remote-work opportunities to participants while they learn quant finance AI and ML concepts. WorldQuant BRAIN provides an advanced crowdsourcing platform for external participants to contribute signals data and more.

The Role: As a front-end developer you will play a crucial role in implementing complex views based on UI designs and ensuring the highest level of quality and user experience.

Implement complex views using React Typescript and CSS.
Collaborate with the UI/UX designers and back-end developers to translate UI designs into functional web applications.
Debug and resolve issues related to front-end functionality and performance.
Develop complex single page applications.
Build reusable components for usage across interfaces.
Develop responsive layouts for desktop and mobile devices.
Automate UI testing processes.
Be an active member of an agile engineering team who is continuously looking to improve team performance.
Work with leading cloud technologies (such as AWS GCP).

What Youll Bring:

Experience in HTML CSS TypeScript.
Experience optimizing React performance.
3 years experience in developing scalable and robust software web applications.
Experience with popular JavaScript libraries and tools.
Proactive approach to learning and staying up-to-date with the latest front-end development trends and technologies.
A passion for building robust and user-friendly web applications.
Excellent debugging and problem solving.

Advantage:

Experience with CI/CD and version control systems
Expertise in Python web frameworks such as Django Flask and others
Experience with Kubernetes or distributed systems is a plus
A solid background in Unix/Linux environment
Finance experience is a plus

What We Offer:

Competitive compensation package
Core benefits include: premium private health insurance and life insurance with savings plan
Support for every aspect of life through Employee Assistance Program and fully covered sick leave
Strong culture of learning and development: training courses library guest speakers share and learn events global conferences
Regular offsite team buildings annual conferences and occasional global summits opportunity to travel and connect with our local and global teams

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Required Experience:

Senior IC