Senior Front End Engineer

• A desire to work closely with users, gather feedback, and understand their problems
• Experience shipping products from start to finish
• Great communication skills along with a team player mentality
• You keep up with modern front end best practices including trends in performance, usability, and security
• You write high quality, well tested code
• Experience with automated testing and building
• Experience with Websockets & Protocol Buffers
• Experience with Linux, Postgres
• Experience building multi-window frontend applications, web workers, OpenGL, Canvas API

Responsibilities

• As a senior frontend engineer at Old Mission you will help solve large scale, complex technical challenges and will build cutting edge, performant, and scalable frontend systems to help make a best-in-class trading experience for our end users
• You'll work with traders, quantitative researchers, and other developers to build new systems and help improve existing ones, as well as work with our risk and security teams to ensure what you build is safe and trustworthy - all while not compromising on user experience
• Articulate and contributing towards a long term technical direction for maintaining and scaling our frontend systems
• Build out performant & intuitive trading interfaces using modern web tools like Typescript, React, Redux, Jest, and Webpack
• Mentor & train other developers on coding standards and design philosophy
• Design internal tools to increase efficiency of data mining, risk management, and more

Qualifications

• At least 4 years of experience developing and shipping web applications using modern, component-based javascript frameworks like React
• A desire to work closely with users, gather feedback, and understand their problems
• Experience shipping products from start to finish
• Great communication skills along with a team player mentality
• You keep up with modern front end best practices including trends in performance, usability, and security
• You write high quality, well tested code
• Experience with automated testing and building
• Experience with Websockets & Protocol Buffers
• Experience with Linux, Postgres
• Experience building multi-window frontend applications, web workers, OpenGL, Canvas API

Responsibilities

• As a senior frontend engineer at Old Mission you will help solve large scale, complex technical challenges and will build cutting edge, performant, and scalable frontend systems to help make a best-in-class trading experience for our end users
• You'll work with traders, quantitative researchers, and other developers to build new systems and help improve existing ones, as well as work with our risk and security teams to ensure what you build is safe and trustworthy - all while not compromising on user experience
• Articulate and contributing towards a long term technical direction for maintaining and scaling our frontend systems
• Build out performant & intuitive trading interfaces using modern web tools like Typescript, React, Redux, Jest, and Webpack
• Mentor & train other developers on coding standards and design philosophy
• Design internal tools to increase efficiency of data mining, risk management, and more

Old Mission is a global proprietary trading firm that leverages state-of-the-art technology and research to identify and execute profitable trading strategies across multiple asset classes around the world.

Our offices in Chicago, New York, and London are all composed of naturally-curious individuals who thrive in a team environment and constantly strive for improvement.

Is this the role you are looking for If so read on for more details, and make sure to apply today.

Old Mission does not... seek capital from outside investors, allowing us the flexibility to aggressively invest in our team members and keep them engaged in the firm’s growth.

About The Position

As a senior frontend engineer at Old Mission you will help solve large scale, complex technical challenges and will build cutting edge, performant, and scalable frontend systems to help make a best-in-class trading experience for our end users.

You'll work with traders, quantitative researchers, and other developers to build new systems and help improve existing ones, as well as work with our risk and security teams to ensure what you build is safe and trustworthy - all while not compromising on user experience.

Responsibilities

• Articulate and contributing towards a long term technical direction for maintaining and scaling our frontend systems
• Build out performant & intuitive trading interfaces using modern web tools like Typescript, React, Redux, Jest, and Webpack
• Mentor & train other developers on coding standards and design philosophy
• Design internal tools to increase efficiency of data mining, risk management, and more

Required Skills

• At least 4 years of experience developing and shipping web applications using modern, component-based javascript frameworks like React
• A desire to work closely with users, gather feedback, and understand their problems
• Experience shipping products from start to finish
• Great communication skills along with a team player mentality
• You keep up with modern front end best practices including trends in performance, usability, and security.
• You write high quality, well tested code.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with automated testing and building
• Experience with Websockets & Protocol Buffers
• Experience with Linux, Postgres
• Experience building multi-window frontend applications, web workers, OpenGL, Canvas API

Old Mission is not accepting unsolicited resumes from any staffing / search firms. All resumes submitted by staffing / search firms to any employee at Old Mission via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid signed search agreement will be deemed the sole property of Old Mission, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Old Mission

Company information

Old Mission is a global, multi-asset market maker. We specialize in dynamically valuing individual securities and complicated derivatives at the speed of modern markets.

We price thousands of financial instruments globally and have traded trillions of dollars of securities using our proprietary systems and models, both on and off exchange.

Our market making platform enables us to work with the world’s largest exchanges, brokers, and institutional investors as a trusted partner, assisting them in transferring risk, often at prices that are much tighter than our competition.

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Company Specialties :

Automated Trading, Arbitrage, and Software Development

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