Front-End Engineer - London - Up to £175,000 Starting Base + Exceptional Bonuses/Benefits
Summary
Builds real-time trading UIs and interactive dashboards with React/TypeScript, streaming data, and ML insights for a quant fund.
Role: Front-End Engineer within Quant / Research
Comp: Up to £175,000 + exceptional guaranteed bonus + full package
Company: Award-winning Quant Fund, founded by Computer Scientists
Why this stands out:
- Tech Lead is not only an absolute/distinguished beast but one of the nicest people…probably ever!
- Engineers report to engineers — no red tape & truly collaborative
- High autonomy, greenfield projects, modern/evolving tech stack
- Culture that values developers and truly supports them
- Beautiful offices with all the expected perks like food, gyms etc
What you will be working on:
- Building next-gen front-end systems powering real-time trading
- Crafting interactive dashboards and research tools with live insights and streaming data
- Working with the quants to turn complex models into intuitive, usable interfaces
- Developing high-performance UIs for large-scale datasets and real-time visualisations
- Bringing real-time ML insights to life
- Implementing real-time data streaming and WebSocket-powered interfaces for instant updates
- Applying modern React patterns, component architecture, and performance optimisations to mission-critical apps
- Shaping the future of trading interfaces, using the latest front-end tech to solve unique quant challenges
Ideal background:
- Minimum 1 year+ experience with React/TypeScript/Next.js etc
- Ideally some Python
- Solid CompSci fundamentals (degree ideally but not essential)
- Passion for tech - meetups, side projects, blogs etc.
- Personality!