Senior Front-End Software Engineer; Mid–Senior - React, TypeScript, SSR; Next.js

Senior Front-End Software Engineer (Mid–Senior) – React, Type Script, SSR (Next.js)

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As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations – from the world's largest companies to small and mid‑market firms – rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Senior Front‑End Software Engineer

Location
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Union, NJ – Hybrid

Get To Know The Team

As a Senior Front‑End Software Engineer, you’ll build user‑facing features that are performant, accessible, and reliable. You will use React, Type Script, and Next.js to deliver SSR/SSG/CSR solutions, contribute to our design system, and ship through modern CI/CD. Senior engineers will drive technical decisions and mentor peers.

• Flexibility:
  Hybrid Work Model & a Business Casual Dress Code, including jeans
• Future: 401(k) Matching Program, Professional Development Reimbursement
• Work/Life Balance:
  Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays
• Wellbeing:
  Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave
• Wide Ranging Perspectives:
  Celebrating the Variety of Backgrounds, Talents, and Experiences of Our Employees
• Training:
  Hands‑On, Team‑Customized, including SS&C University
• Extra Perks:
  Discounts on fitness clubs, travel, and more!

• Feature delivery:
  Implement end‑to‑end user stories in React/Type Script with clean, testable code and responsive, accessible UI.
• Rendering strategy:
  Apply SSR/SSG/CSR appropriately (Next.js App Router, React Server Components/streaming) to balance SEO, performance, and complexity.
• Performance:
  Optimize for Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS); use code‑splitting, lazy loading, caching, image optimization, and efficient state management.
• Design system:
  Build and maintain reusable components and tokens; document usage in Storybook; support theming and cross‑app reuse.
• Quality & CI/CD:
  Add unit/e2e tests (Jest/Vitest, Playwright/Cypress), participate in reviews, and ship via automated pipelines (type checks, lint, a11y, visual regression).
• Accessibility (a11y):
  Ensure semantic HTML, ARIA, keyboard navigation, focus management, and contrast meet WCAG 2.2 AA.
• APIs & data:
  Collaborate with Backend on REST/Graph
  
  QL contracts; implement data‑fetching patterns (React Query/Tan Stack, SWR) and error/empty states.
• Observability:
  Instrument telemetry (Open Telemetry/console events), track client error rates and performance dashboards, and iterate based on data.
• Tech leadership:
  Lead design docs/RFCs, make framework/library trade‑offs, guide code reviews, and mentor junior/mid engineers.

• Mid‑level: 3–5 years building production web apps with React, Type Script/JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Senior: 5–8+ years, including leading feature delivery across services/teams and mentoring peers.
• Strong grasp of web performance (network, rendering, hydration), state management (React Query/Redux/Zustand/Signals), and API consumption (REST/Graph
  
  QL).
• Hands‑on with testing (Jest/Vitest, Playwright/Cypress) and CI/CD.
• Practical accessibility skills (semantic HTML, ARIA, screen readers, focus, contrast).

• Next.js (App Router), React Server Components, streaming, and incremental static regeneration.
• Experience with design systems (tokens, Storybook), visual regression testing, and component governance.
• Micro‑frontends (Module Federation) or monorepo tooling (Nx/Turborepo).
• Internationalization (i18n) at scale.
• Observability (Sentry, Open Telemetry, New Relic) and experimentation/analytics.
• Edge runtimes/CDN strategies (Vercel/Cloudflare), plus familiarity with Web Assembly/WebGL when applicable.
• Interest in applying AI/ML to improve UX or DX (e.g., content suggestions, automated testing).

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! To further explore this opportunity, please apply through our careers page on the corporate website at

The expected base salary for the position in New Jersey is between $ USD to $ USD.

In addition to their salary, successful candidates may be eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus and stock options.

SS&C offers excellent benefits including health, dental, 401(k) plan, tuition and professional development reimbursement plan.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.