Schonfeld Strategic Advisors is looking for a Senior UI Engineer to build and shape the firm's internal UI platform, evolving its UI infrastructure that powers over 100 business applications.
Requirements
- Expertise in React, TypeScript, HTML, CSS and modern web development toolkits
- Experience working with REST APIs, WebSockets, and event-driven architectures
- Strong familiarity with common enterprise JavaScript frameworks, such as Redux, Zustand, RxJS
- Hands-on experience with advanced data grid and charting tools integrated with real-time or high-volume datasets
- Experience working with both relational (Postgres, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB)
- Expertise with low-latency, distributed caches such as Redis or Memcached
- Proficiency in writing unit tests and E2E tests utilizing popular frameworks like RTL, Mocha, Jest, Cypress, Playwright
Responsibilities
- contribute to architectural improvements, shared components, and implementation consistency across cross-functional teams
- work closely with product teams or business stakeholders, helping shape feature definitions, and building high-impact UI solutions directly into their applications
- development responsibilities will span full-stack, including web front-end, backend integration, API design, performance optimization, and system observability
- involved in the team’s code quality and best practices
- mentor junior engineers
- identify gaps in development lifecycles
- continuously improve both the core platform and how developers build with it
Other
- 5+ years of professional experience in UI engineering, with at least 2 years in a role leading or designing front-end architectures
- A thoughtful approach to problem-solving; Ability to break down complex issues methodically
- A track record of independent executions, able to deliver UI projects or large features in collaboration with cross-functional teams with minimal guidance
- Experience driving the full lifecycle of complex UI applications, from roadmap shaping to delivering scalable solutions
- Cloud operation skills in system monitoring and configuration management. Proven experience in diagnosing production issues and ensuring system reliability in cloud environments
