UI Developer- Contract
Summary
Contract UI Developer at Quant Capital in London building a React-based frontend for a big-data financial markets platform. Day to day: prototyping UI features, porting legacy Angular code, and integrating with a Node.js/Apollo GraphQL API in a small, agile, test-driven team.
In this role you will help build a cutting-edge frontend for a disruptive big data service in the financial markets. You will work within a small, cross-functional team to deliver new UI features, maintain and port from legacy code, and shape the end-user experience. You’ll also engage with a GraphQL API layer and influence technical direction in a fast-paced, test-driven environment. This is an opportunity to impact how investors analyse and collaborate on investments through a modern, React-based frontend.
Responsibilities- Prototype and deliver UI features with the product team
- Collaborate with backend developers to add new capabilities
- Maintain visual consistency across the UI
- Port features from a legacy Angular codebase when needed
- Engage with GraphQL API (Node.js/Apollo) to interact with backend services
- Contribute to an agile, test-driven development process
- evangelise and prototype new technologies to influence architecture
- JavaScript or TypeScript
- HTML and CSS
- Experience with Node.js, GraphQL and REST
- Proficiency with React, Redux, Styled Components, Apollo GraphQL
- UX and visual design skills are a plus
- collaboration
- adaptability
- initiative
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- HTML/CSS
- Node.js
