Software Engineer (Front-End / UI) \| Global Quantitative Trading Firm
My client is a leading quantitative trading firm renowned for combining cutting-edge research, advanced technology, and scientific rigour to solve complex problems across global financial markets. Their culture promotes innovation, intellectual honesty, and collaboration — empowering exceptional engineers to make meaningful contributions to world-class trading infrastructure.
Sitting within their Core Development team, this role focuses on designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance applications that underpin global trading operations. You’ll work closely with traders, researchers, and engineers to build intuitive and responsive front-end systems that drive data visualization, analytics, and execution interfaces.
Responsibilities
Collaborate directly with users to gather requirements and build intuitive UI solutions.
Design, extend, and support applications for internal and external stakeholders.
Take ownership of projects from concept through deployment, ensuring scalability and usability.
Partner with global teams to evolve core trading systems and workflows.
Requirements
5+ years’ experience with modern JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS.
Proven ability to write clean, maintainable, and reliable code.
Experience with front-end testing frameworks (e.g., Jest or similar).
Strong communication skills and an analytical, problem-solving mindset.
Exposure to SQL (Postgres, MySQL) and CI/CD workflows.
Preferred / Nice to Have
Experience with Python back-end frameworks (Tornado, FastAPI, Django).
Familiarity with charting and visualization libraries (d3.js, ag-grid, React Charts, etc).
Knowledge of Kafka, Redis, or time-series databases (ClickHouse, InfluxDB).
Linux proficiency and/or prior experience in trading or financial systems.
This role suits a creative, detail-oriented engineer who thrives in fast-paced, intellectually rigorous environments and wants to contribute to one of the world’s most advanced trading infrastructures.
BAH Partners
specialise in placing the leading talent into Asia Pacific’s premier quant and technology-driven organisations. If you would like more information, or to confidentially discuss your career options, please contact me at
craig.barnish@bahpartners.com
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