Lead Software Engineer (UI) — Digital Markets Execution Technology (DMET), Execute

Overview

In this role you will lead the frontend direction and hands-on delivery for a latency‑sensitive, real‑time trading UI used by traders and sales. You’ll partner with product, design and control partners to translate workflows into high‑signal UX at scale, while ensuring secure, compliant delivery in a fast‑paced global environment. You’ll shape the UI architecture, drive performance and testing strategies, and mentor engineers to raise engineering excellence. The opportunity centers on building a mission‑critical, responsive front‑office experience that integrates with backend and platform services and leverages AI‑assisted development practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver UI capabilities for Execute from discovery to production support
• Set front‑end direction: architecture, standards, performance, testing strategy
• Collaborate with product, stakeholders, and designers to translate trading workflows into intuitive UX
• Improve quality via testing, troubleshooting, and performance optimization
• Build high‑performance, real‑time UIs with strong responsiveness and stability
• Develop scalable UI architecture, component libraries, and shared platform services
• Promote engineering excellence: code reviews, quality gates, CI/CD, observability, operational readiness
• Ensure secure, compliant development aligned to firm standards
• Mentor engineers and foster inclusive team culture
• Collaborate with backend, platform, and SRE for end‑to‑end solutions
• Adopt enterprise AI‑assisted development practices to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes, with validated AI outputs and secure usage
• Apply SDLC toolchain knowledge to boost automation and value of development processes

Key requirements

• Hands‑on production UI experience with React and TypeScript in large-scale apps
• Strong front‑end engineering knowledge: state management, async data flows, UI architecture
• Performance optimization, testing strategies, and CI/CD automation
• Experience delivering real‑time or data‑intensive UIs
• Demonstrated technical leadership in standards setting, design, and mentoring
• Solid OO/design fundamentals, debugging, documentation
• Familiarity with agentic development approaches across the SDLC
• Strong communication for global, cross‑functional work
• Ability to independently solve design and functionality problems
• Experience leading AI‑assisted software development tools and validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security
• Understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, secure handling of data, resiliency and security expectations

• Strong communication
• Cross‑functional collaboration
• Mentoring and team leadership
• React
• TypeScript
• front‑end architecture

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