React Developer

6 month rolling contract - Inside IR35 - Investment Banking

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in an agile based software development life-cycle including technical analysis, documentation, development, testing and code reviews.
• Collaborate with the production support team for release and maintenance of the components.
• Work closely with the other developers in determining and following best development and architecture practice.
• Propose and provide feedback from experience/knowledge on architecture, design, technology choices and technology direction of the platform.
• Train and mentor less experienced participants through instruction, pair programming and code review.
• Fully participate in requirement and design meetings for new functionality.
• Develop reference implementations and documentation for platform features
• Moderate and review development contributions from the development community

Skills and Experience

• Software development experience in an enterprise environment
• Good development skills and experience with ReactJs
• Good development skills and experience with Typescipt , CSS.
• Experience with reactive extensions.
• Experience with real time trading systems.
• Knowledge of programming best practices, design patterns etc.
• Strong interest in continuous improvement and all aspects of software development and delivery
• Good understanding of test driven development and continuous integration practices
• Good understanding of relational databases with appropriate SQL knowledge
• Strong communication skills, both orally and in writing, inside and outside the team.
• Desire to learn quickly and ability to adapt to a fast changing environment.
• Comfortable dealing with numbers.
• Solid academic background in engineering, sciences or economics.
• Good development experience with C# and the Microsoft.NET stack.
• Front office development experience in any of: Interest Rates Products, Repos, FX.
• Financial product knowledge in Interest Rates products, FX, FX Options
• Experience developing large real-time financial trading applications.
• Experience with real time messaging protocols.
• An ability to design performant software and an understanding of application performance profiling