Schonfeld Strategic Advisors is looking for a UI Engineer to build and shape the firm's internal UI platform, which powers over 100 business applications. The role aims to evolve the UI infrastructure, improve technical stack and development tools, and build high-impact UI solutions for business applications.
Requirements
- 3-5 years of professional experience in front-end engineering
- 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, D3, AgGrid or Highcharts
- 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 and business stakeholders, helping shape feature definitions.
- Build high-impact UI solutions directly into their applications.
- Span full-stack development, including web front-end, backend integration, API design, performance optimization, and system observability.
- Be 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.
Other
- A track record of developing data-intensive, scalable applications with strong usability and performance
- A thoughtful approach to problem-solving; Ability to break down complex issues methodically
- Experience in building internal tools for trading, analytics, or compliance in Finance or Fintech businesses
- Experience with AWS cloud services (EC2), Kubernetes-driven deployments, and modern CI/CD pipelines
- Excellent communication skills; Able to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders
