UI/TypeScript Engineer
Description For UI/TypeScript Engineer
DRW, a diversified trading firm with over 30 years of experience, is seeking a UI/TypeScript Engineer to join their team in Houston or Austin. As a UI/TypeScript Engineer, you'll be responsible for designing, developing, and testing proprietary trading software. You'll have access to a significant set of tools and technology built by the firm, and you'll be expected to leverage these existing resources while pragmatically focusing on business value.
In this role, you'll create tools and workflows for exploratory research, develop products from inception to production, craft APIs for research productivity, and build web user interfaces for data exploration. You'll also work on platform software to improve both developer and user experiences, and build systems for automated testing of systematic trading web-applications.
The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience with modern front-end frameworks, strong TypeScript and CSS skills, and the ability to manage complex state management paradigms. You should have experience with large datasets, high availability systems, and browser performance optimization. Familiarity with financial/B2B application UX design, testing tools, and common charting libraries is crucial.
DRW values autonomy, quick pivoting to capture opportunities, and operates using its own capital. The company trades various asset classes across global markets and has expanded into real estate, venture capital, and cryptoassets. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, leadership skills, and experience in the trading industry or a similarly demanding field, you'll thrive in this dynamic and innovative environment.
Join DRW to work on cutting-edge technology in the financial sector, collaborating with talented peers and contributing to research work across the firm. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact in a fast-paced, high-stakes industry while working with sophisticated technology and exceptional people.
Responsibilities For UI/TypeScript Engineer
- Create tools and workflows that enable exploratory research
- Develop products from inception to production, identifying business needs, user experience, and product evangelism
- Craft APIs that enable research productivity
- Build and iterate on platform software to improve developer experience as well as user experience
- Build web user interfaces for data exploration and delivery of research results
- Build systems to enable automated testing of systematic trading web-applications and deployment into our production trading environment
- Collaborate with peers at DRW as a subject matter expert to learn & contribute to research work across the firm
Requirements For UI/TypeScript Engineer
- 5 years of experience with web development in a modern front-end framework (React, Angular, Lit, Vue, etc)
- Great working knowledge of Typescript and CSS
- Able to manage complex state management paradigms
- Strong API design and data modeling skills
- User Experience design skills for data-dense Financial/B2B applications, with an appreciation for design systems/component libraries
- Experience writing software with large datasets and high availability
- A keen understanding of browser performance optimization techniques
- Best practices for client-side code testing using tooling such as Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, Puppeteer, React Testing Library, etc
- Familiarity with AG Grid and common charting libraries (HighCharts, D3, etc)
- Experience with at least one 'back-end' programming language (Python, Java, C++, C#, Rust, etc.)
- An entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to work directly with your software's users
- Leadership skills and a team-orientated mentality
- Experience working in the trading industry, or a similarly demanding industry, developing business critical applications
