UX Engineer TypeScript React - FinTech

UX Engineer / Developer (Type Script React) London / WFH to £60k

Are you a UX Engineer who combines strong frontend engineering skills with a passion for building intuitive, high performance user experiences?

You could be joining a technology driven financial markets business where you'll shape the user experience across sophisticated trading and risk management applications. You'll work across design and engineering, improving usability and consistency while building responsive, data rich interfaces that help users make decisions in real time.

As a UX Engineer, you'll deliver end-to-end frontend features across order management and risk management systems, working closely with backend engineers and other teams on functionality spanning the full stack. You'll have genuine influence over UI design principles, frontend architecture and the tools used to build and maintain a consistent product experience.

Using React and Type Script, you'll develop intuitive interfaces, real-time market data visualisations and high performance, spreadsheet like data grids. You'll help establish Web Socket based communication between frontend and backend services, improve state and data management and contribute to the evolution of a scalable frontend monorepo. You'll also use frontend monitoring and session replay to understand real user behaviour, investigate issues and continuously improve the experience.

AI assisted development is an important part of the engineering culture. You'll use AI tools thoughtfully, taking ownership of the code they produce, while exploring agentic workflows, design-to-code automation and integrations with tools such as Figma and MCP to make frontend development more efficient and consistent.

Location / WFH:

You'll join the team in Central London three days a week with flexibility to work from home the other two days.

About you:

• You have strong React and Type Script development skills, with excellent CSS and UI implementation skills
• You have experience with state management and data fetching libraries such as Zustand and Tan Stack Query
• You have experience of writing clean, maintainable, testable code, with automated testing experience using tools such as Vitest and Playwright
• You have experience integrating REST APIs and working with API contracts, ideally using OpenAPI specifications
• You have an eye for detail and a genuine interest in usability, visual consistency and high quality user experiences
• You have hands-on experience using AI assisted development tools, with an interest in agentic workflows and tool integrations
• You have strong problem solving skills, a proactive approach and the ability to take ownership of work independently
• You're degree educated in Computer Science or similar technical discipline

What's in it for you:

As a UX Engineer / Developer you will receive a comprehensive package including:

• Salary to £60k + bonus (c 20%)
• Private Medical Healthcare including Dental and Vision cover
• Pension
• Employee Wellness Programme
• Summer time hours
• £2k personalised training budget