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Front-End JavaScript/TypeScript/React/AG Grid Software Engineer : Trading : £120-180k plus excellent bonus : London

Hunter Bond · London Area, United Kingdom

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We're partnering with a leading quantitative trading firm that's continuing to invest heavily in its engineering teams. They're looking for a talented Software Engineer to help build the next generation of high-performance trading applications used by traders, quants, and researchers across global markets. This is an opportunity to work on complex, data-intensive applications where performance, usability, and reliability are critical. You'll be building sophisticated web-based platforms that process and visualise large volumes of real-time financial data.Working as part of a highly collaborative engineering team, you'll design and develop modern frontend applications that power trading workflows. You'll work closely with traders, product specialists, and backend engineers to deliver intuitive, high-performance user interfaces.You'll be involved in:Building complex, interactive data grids and financial dashboardsDeveloping responsive, performant web applications handling real-time market dataCreating reusable UI components and internal frontend librariesOptimising rendering performance for large datasetsCollaborating with backend teams to integrate low-latency APIsInfluencing architecture and frontend best practicesWe're interested in engineers with strong experience building sophisticated web applications rather than simple websites.You'll ideally have experience with:JavaScript and TypeScriptReactAG Grid (or similar enterprise data grid technologies)State management (Redux, Zustand or equivalent)Performance optimisation and rendering large datasetsWebSockets or real-time data streamingRESTful APIsHTML5 and modern CSS