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

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.

• A 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

• Design, build, and operate real‑time, event‑driven React micro‑frontends for trader workflows, optimizing for sub‑second 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 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

• Collaborate 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

• 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

• 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, IBM Message Queue, or similar)

• Solid understanding of distributed systems and backend integrations, with experience working with caches, view servers, asynchronous patterns, Web Socket’s, RESTful 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

• 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 ability to analyze systems holistically and drive continuous improvement

• An…