Frontend Developer (Remote)

Project description

The project goal is developing and continually evolving the firm’s core infrastructure platform.

The team works jointly with Portfolio Managers, Trading, and Operations on a strategic rebuild of the trading platform moving to low latency, microservices-based, highly scalable, distributed architecture empowered with top in class open source and commercial solutions and technologies.

You will:

• Build the next generation of trading applications and tools (including systematic and quantitative trading)

• Be a key contributor in the design and implementation of the portfolio management infrastructure

• Engage with various technology and data teams within the firm in enabling the above

• Manage technical risks and build prototypes or POCs where needed to validate technical approach

Become a part of:

• Mature team with an entrepreneurial culture, where professionalism, ownership, and excellence are highly valued, whilst wholesome work/life balance is maintained.

• Positive, friendly and very supportive environment with open communication and constructive feedback practices.

Take advantage of:

• Business trips to US/NYC (depending on project needs) for on-site work, on-the-job trainings, conferences and technical events

• Trainings and educational programs on technical and soft skills, business-domain specific courses (Investment Management, Trading, Financial and Capital Markets)

Must have skills:

• 5+ years of Angular experience
• Strong programming skills in JavaScript
• Recent working experience with TypeScript, React
• Ability to communicate ideas in English
• Team player
• ability to get along with existing team members and learn from them (this is absolutely essential for success)
• Ability to work with minimal direction in a self-sufficient manner, often adapting to ever-changing priorities
• Focus on accuracy and attention to detail
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experiences

Nice to have skills:

• Experience of server side development, building high availability, low latency, scalable frameworks, preferably with Open Source
• Deep OOP expertise
• Experience developing large-scale enterprise software
• Experience with JUnit
• Experience with TDD
• Experience with Ant, Maven, Gradle
• Experience with Git
• Experience with Linux
• Experience with Jira
• Experience with Jenkins is a plus
• Understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability
• Solid knowledge of software development methodologies and best practices
• Understanding of Clean code principles

Benefits and perks:

• Competitive compensation package and benefits

• Opportunities for career and professional growth

• Global company

• Business-domain specific courses

• Training programs for technical & functional skills

• Onboarding relocation package

• Sports and leisure activities

• Informal team events

Luxoft is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.

We show fairness to all throughout our talent acquisition and management process.