Lead UI Engineer – Front Office Trading Platforms - Vice President

Job Description:

Job Title Lead UI Engineer – Front Office Trading Platforms Corporate Title Vice President Location New York, NY Overview

Join a front-office engineering team building high-performance React applications that power Deutsche Bank’s electronic trading business in Fixed Income and Currencies. You will design and deliver real-time, trader-facing user interfaces where speed, reliability, and usability directly impact trading decisions and revenue. Working side-by-side with traders, sales, quants, and product partners, you’ll turn complex market workflows into intuitive, low-latency tools used during live market hours.

As part of a global engineering organization, you’ll contribute across the full product lifecycle with a strong focus on modern front-end architecture, UI performance, and resilient production delivery.

What We Offer YouA diverse and inclusive environment that embraces change, innovation, and collaboration

A hybrid working model, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility, generous vacation, personal and volunteer days Employee Resource Groups support an inclusive workplace for everyone and promote community engagement

Competitive compensation packages including health and wellbeing benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave, and family building benefits

Educational resources, matching gift and volunteer programs

What You’ll DoDesign, build, and operate real-time, event-driven React micro-frontends for trader workflows, optimizing for sub-second User Interface (UI) updates, low latency, and high throughput in market-driven conditions

Drive end-to-end solution design with a front-end-first mindset, working closely with engineers across the stack to deliver scalable, performant trading applications

Partner directly with traders, sales, and quants to translate desk needs into technical designs and iterative deliveries, managing competing priorities, communicating trade-offs clearly, and pushing back diplomatically under time pressure

Champion strong engineering and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices, including requirements analysis, design patterns, code reviews, automated testing, secure-by-design implementation, controlled releases, and setting technical standards while guiding and mentoring other engineers

Collaborating with a global engineering team as part of a broader technology transformation, acting as a technical point of reference and leading through influence rather than authority

How You’ll Lead Experience driving technical deliveries across teams and mentoring and/or managing junior developers

Engage with business, product stakeholders and external clients effectively

Interact with global team leads to align architecture, share best practices, and ensure consistent delivery standards across regions

Skills You’ll Need Strong expertise in modern React and Type Script (functional components, hooks, and contemporary state-management patterns), with proven experience optimizing UI performance across large, dynamic datasets

Hands-on experience building real-time systems such as pricing, market data, risk, or order flow, including UI consumption of streaming data and integration with messaging or event-streaming platforms (e.g., Solace, Kafka, Java Message Service (JMS)/IBM Message Queue (MQ), or similar)
Solid understanding of distributed systems and backend integrations, with experience working with caches, view servers, asynchronous patterns, Web Socket’s, RESTful Application Programming Interface (APIs), and tuning performance at the UI layer

Practical experience working in Agile teams (Scrum or Kanban), with strong communication skills and comfort engaging senior stakeholders and traders in a fast-moving front-office environment, including making decisions with incomplete information

Skills That Will Help You Excel Domain knowledge in Fixed Income and Derivatives, with familiarity across market data and electronic trading ecosystems

Experience designing and operating highly available, scalable services and front-end platforms; cloud exposure (GCP or similar)
A track record of improving delivery standards, tooling, and working practices, with the…