Graduate Software Engineer UI

About Elwood

As an FCA-regulated firm Elwood Technologies provides institutional investors with a seamless end-to-end digital asset trading execution and risk management infrastructure connected to global markets via a single API. To support the continued growth of this platform we are now seeking a Graduate Software Engineer to join our UI team.

Job Description

Youll join our UI team building the front-end of a trading and portfolio management platform where large volumes of real-time market and position data have to be displayed clearly accurately and fast. Working alongside experienced front-end developers youll help build the live grids charts and dashboards that traders and portfolio managers depend on every day. Its a data-intensive problem space with real technical depth; a strong place for a graduate to start.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain user interfaces in TypeScript and React
• Work with streaming real-time data for live prices orders positions and P&L
• Present large fast-moving datasets through interactive grids and charts
• Sweat performance and accuracy: the numbers have to be right and the screen cant lag
• Collaborate with senior developers take part in code reviews and steadily take on more ownership

About You:

Youre someone who when you hit something you dont understand gets more interested rather than less. You learn by building things and breaking them. Youre not fazed by complex messy data and you like the challenge of making it clear taking something dense and tangled and turning it into a screen someone else can understand. You sweat the details because in a trading system the details are the whole game.

Qualifications / Knowledge

• A degree (or equivalent) in computing or demonstrable equivalent self-taught ability
• Working knowledge of the web platform: HTML CSS and JavaScript
• Some hands-on experience with TypeScript and React e.g. coursework personal projects internships or self-study
• An understanding of how a modern front-end application is structured: components state and rendering
• Evidence of self-driven learning like a side project a deployed app a GitHub something you chased because it interested you
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate across cross-functional teams.
• A passion for a career in a FinTech environment and a genuine interest in the Crypto / Digital Assets space.

Desirable:

• Exposure to or a modern build tool such as Vite
• Experience with data-heavy UI components like grids (e.g. ag-Grid) or charting libraries (e.g. Highcharts)
• Any exposure to real-time or streaming data (WebSockets live updates)
• An eye for UI performance and rendering efficiently where data changes constantly
• An interest in finance markets or trading
• Familiarity with Git and working in a team codebase

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and compensation packages
• Fully paid medical and discounted dental schemes for employees and their family
• Generous time off bank holidays
• Enhanced parental leave for all employees who have been with the company for one (1) year
• Cycle to Work and Cycle Saver schemes
• Fully stocked kitchen and access to weekly Ubereats allowance
• Discounted gym scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Paid study leave and personal leave

Why Elwood

• Join a series A FinTech company and help shape the future of finance
• A startup with deep financial backing and a strong market presence
• Our platform is enabling institutional access to the most exciting growth opportunity in Finance
• Work with a modern technology stack and help solve high impact problems
• Strong client focused team with a diverse background
• Were a Global company and have modern centrally based offices in London New York and Singapore.