Schonfeld Strategic Advisors is looking to build and shape its internal UI platform, which powers 100+ business applications across the firm, and is seeking a Senior UI Engineer to contribute to this effort.
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
- Develop 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, and continuously improve both the core platform and how developers build with it
- Craft industry-leading UI platform and ecosystems
- Help evolve our technical stack and development tools
- Build high-impact UI solutions directly into applications
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
- Excellent communication skills: Partner closely with business stakeholders to turn high-level concepts into technical plans, UX wireframes, or prototypes
