Elite UI Engineer
London
160-180k Base + Bonus + Excellent Benefits

Our client, a prestigious global hedge fund, requires a UI engineer to partner with the trading, research, and data teams to develop and deliver key initiatives for their world-class commodities trading business.

The successful candidate will:

Play a key part in evolving an advanced technology platform used by analysts to understand patterns
Conduct scenario analysis
Improve the overall accuracy of investment decisions
Utilise the following Technologies: React, TypeScript, Python, gRPC, GraphQL, NodeJS, Kubernetes, Docker

The successful UI Engineer will possess the following skills, traits, and experience:

7-12 years of solid, hands-on engineering experience with a demonstrated track record of creative thinking, exceeding the bar, and delivering exceptional results
Experience working with systematic trading systems. Exposure to commodity markets would be an advantage
Hands-on collaborative working
Designing and developing cross-platform applications using the latest TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and libraries
Significant experience building React applications from architecture to completion
Expert-level skills in JavaScript libraries such as React; specific experience in Node.js is ideal
Python or a comparable language
gRPC / GraphQL / Websockets
Deployment & infrastructure tools (Ideally experience with Docker, Kubernetes)
Superlative problem-solving skills and an innate ability to break complex technical problems into actionable items
Strong written and oral communication skills;
Stakeholder management

The Certus Recruitment Group is an established and experienced specialist consultancy providing sales, marketing, and IT recruitment services to the business community throughout the UK, Europe, North America, and Australia.