UI Senior Lead Software Engineer Commodities

Join Digital Markets Execution Technology (DMET) to shape the future of Execute our front-office trading platform powering Markets businesses. As a Lead Software Engineer (UI) you will set front-end technical direction and lead hands-on delivery of a latency-sensitive real-time user experience used directly by traders and sales. You will partner closely with business stakeholders product specialists designers and control partners to build intuitive high-signal workflows at scale. You will also directly lead a small team of mid-level engineers fostering their growth and maintaining a high-performing inclusive team culture. This role emphasizes engineering excellence operational readiness and secure compliant delivery in a fast-paced global environment.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of user interface capabilities across Execute from discovery to production support
• Set front-end technical direction including architecture standards performance and testing strategy
• Partner with product business stakeholders and designers to translate trading workflows into intuitive UX
• Drive quality through thorough testing troubleshooting and performance optimization
• Build high-performance real-time UIs with strong responsiveness and stability
• Establish and evolve scalable UI architecture including component libraries and shared platform services
• Drive engineering excellence through code reviews quality gates CI/CD observability and operational readiness
• Ensure secure compliant development practices aligned to firm standards
• Directly manage and mentor a small team of mid-level engineers providing technical guidance career development support and day-to-day coaching to cultivate an inclusive high-performing team culture
• Collaborate with backend platform and SRE partners to deliver end-to-end solutions
• Drive team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality delivery speed and operational outcomes (e.g. AI-assisted code review/refactoring test strategy acceleration incident/root-cause analysis support) while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding peer review automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team
• Apply knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities to improve the value realized by automation

Required Qualifications / Skills

• Hands-on experience building production UIs with React and TypeScript in large-scale applications
• Strong knowledge of modern front-end engineering including state management asynchronous data flows and UI architecture
• Expertise in performance optimization testing strategies and automation in CI/CD pipelines
• Experience delivering real-time or data-intensive user experiences
• Demonstrated technical leadership in setting standards leading designs and directly managing or mentoring small teams of mid-level engineers
• Solid software engineering fundamentals including OO/design patterns debugging and documentation
• Familiarity with agentic development approaches across the software development lifecycle
• Strong communication and people skills with the ability to work effectively in global cross-functional environments while supporting the day-to-day development and growth of direct reports
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g. for coding code review test acceleration troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness performance and security
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows including data sensitivity considerations secure handling of inputs/outputs and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe compliant adoption within delivery practices

Preferred Qualifications / Skills

• Experience in front-office trading or electronic execution domains
• Familiarity with financial market concepts and protocols
• Experience with UI component libraries advanced data grid patterns and visualization
• Exposure to backend-for-frontend patterns event-driven architectures and API design collaboration
• Experience operating UIs in regulated environments with strong auditability and controls