Senior UI Engineer Job at DRW in Chicago

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk.

Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies : real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets.

We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it’s not just what we do that matters–it's how we do it. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.

We're seeking a Senior UI Engineer to join our team to build new products and scale to more users. The position is focused on UI engineering but offers opportunity to work on API design and back-end code.

Candidates should have strong initiative and have proven experience independently driving projects to completion. We work from high-level requirements and programmers are expected to gain an intimate understanding of the business and work directly with traders and researchers on a daily basis.

Responsibilities

Working closely with traders, researchers, and other developers to build products that help understand, visualize, and interact with large data sets in new and exciting ways

Developing full products, from inception to production, including identifying the business needs, user experience, backend processing, production support, and product evangelism

Working primarily with TypeScript and React

Chrome browser expertise

Providing on-call production support as needed

Collaborating with traders, researchers, and software engineers within our group, as well as elsewhere within the organization

Some Of The Key Skills Are

5+ years of experience with web development (JavaScript, HTML5, WebSockets, Node.js, ReactJS, etc.)

3+ years of experience with product management, feature gathering, and UX design

Strong working knowledge of TypeScript and React

Mature practices in unit testing and automated, UI driven acceptance testing

Experience with high availability systems

Experience with optimizing applications for Chrome

Experience developing server-side systems

Experience developing on Linux and a familiarity with the command line

Experience with DevOps or system administration to aid in deployment and load balancing is helpful but not required

Experience with trading systems is helpful but not required

Experience with implementing security systems (e.g. 2FA, encryption, etc.) is helpful but not required

The annual base salary range for this position is $175,000 to $225,000, depending on the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and relevant skill set. The position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition, DRW offers a comprehensive suite of employee benefits including group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance, 401k (with discretionary employer match), short and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, health savings accounts, and flexible spending accounts.

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Seniority level Seniority level Mid-Senior level

Employment type Employment type Full-time

Job function Job function Finance, Information Technology, and Engineering

Industries Capital Markets, IT Services and IT Consulting, and Financial Services

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