Senior Frontend Developer

🚀 Senior Front-End Engineer – Investment Banking | £700-800 (Outside IR35) London / Hybrid (1 Day/Week in Office)

• Location
  :
  London (Hybrid – 1 day/week in the office
  , rest flexible)
• Start Date
  : ASAP

We are partnering with a global investment bank to hire a Senior Front-End Engineer to join a flagship team delivering a next-generation, single-page application (SPA) platform for high-performance derivatives trading. This is a high-profile role on a mission-critical, front-office system with exceptional technical standards.

You’ll work at the cutting edge of financial technology, contributing to a modern, reactive web platform used across trading desks. This is not your typical enterprise UI – it’s fast, data-intensive, and built to scale with real-time demands in a trading environment.

• Collaborate with elite engineers on a SPA used across the investment bank for derivatives trading.
• Build elegant, high-performance UIs with real-time data updates and functional programming paradigms.
• Shape a front-end architecture trusted by traders, with a focus on resilience, performance, and usability
  .
• Leverage the latest web technologies in a fast-paced, agile development environment.
• Flexible working arrangements with only 1 day per week required in the City of London office
  .
• Strong commercial experience with Type Script ,
  ES6
  , HTML5, and advanced CSS.
• Proven delivery of performance-critical SPAs
  , ideally within front-office trading or other high-frequency environments.
• Proficiency with functional and reactive programming using immutable data structures
  .
• Attention to UI/UX detail – you take pride in building intuitive, beautiful products.
• Comfortable working in collaborative, high-performance teams
  .
• Confident daily use of LLMs and agent-mode AI tools to accelerate development and enhance workflow.

• Familiarity with Angular + Ng Rx or React + Redux
  .
• Full stack experience using a typed backend language like Java
  , C#, or F#.

This is your chance to work on a flagship trading platform that’s setting the benchmark for web technology in investment banking. You’ll be part of a technically outstanding team, solving complex problems and delivering software that matters — with genuine flexibility and a balanced work-life setup.