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Senior Front-End Engineer

London, United Kingdom

Company Overview

Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: IBKR) is a global financial services company headquartered in Greenwich, CT, USA, with offices in over 15 countries. We have been at the forefront of financial innovation for over four decades, known for our cutting-edge technology and client commitment.

IBKR affiliates provide global electronic brokerage services around the clock on stocks, options, futures, currencies, bonds, and funds to clients in over 200 countries and territories. We serve individual investors and institutions, including financial advisors, hedge funds and introducing brokers. Our advanced technology, competitive pricing, and global market help our clients to make the most of their investments.

Barron's has recognized Interactive Brokers as the #1 online broker for six consecutive years. Join our dynamic, multi-national team and be a part of a company that simplifies and enhances financial opportunities using state-of-the-art technology.

Interactive Advisors (http://interactiveadvisors.com) is an online investment advisor and marketplace for discovering exceptional portfolio managers.

Role Outline

Our key requirement is a Javascript developer who wants to be the complete front-end engineer in a Vue-based environment. We are also looking for someone who is interested in UX and interface design.

More specifically, this is an opportunity to develop performant and scalable SPAs for our many brokerage platforms. You will collaborate closely with other engineers, product managers, and our design team to deliver brokerage web app applications to our diverse client base of over 2 million users.

Role Responsibilities:

  • Work on brokerage projects as an Engineer at interactiveadvisors.com (Central London, UK).
  • Design and build scalable web applications within the VueJs ecosystem (VueJs, Vuex, Pinia, Vite, Cypress, webpack)
  • owning and building high-traffic applications with a focus on speed and user experience.
  • Collaborate with colleagues to ideate, plan, and organize large-scale projects.
  • Contribute to our company-wide Vue UI Component Library.
  • Set direction and partner with other front-end engineers to implement new technologies.
  • Work with a team of intelligent, intense and fast-moving co-workers.

Experience:

  • 3+ years of commercial software development experience with an emphasis on single-page web app development
  • Hands-on experience with at least one JavaScript framework - React.js/Vue.js/Angular.js (we use Vue.js and Angular.js)
  • HTML, CSS (including CSS pre-processors), JavaScript and Typescript
  • Experience integrating APIs
  • Web testing and troubleshooting skills – you know the web developer tools.
  • Evidence of unconventional thinking that shows you have worked smarter, not just harder.
  • Excellent organizational, communication and soft skills.
  • A strong academic record, a graduate in a science or technology subject, post-graduate is a plus.

Personal Attributes:

  • A passionate advocate of concise and simple code, designs and applications.
  • As a technical leader, you inspire trust and confidence in your peers.
  • Great team member – has the confidence to admit errors, can follow, direct, learn and teach.
  • You learn a new business domain fast, getting to grips with new concepts and asking questions.
  • You hold your own in a detailed Javascript discussion with a senior engineer and a user-centred design discussion with UX and business domain experts.
  • You demonstrate a strong sense of personal integrity and accountability.
  • You accept and act upon constructive criticism.

Location

20 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 8AF

Working hours

9 am – 6 pm, Monday – Friday

Benefits

  • Career support and development
  • Salary commensurate with experience
  • Performance-based discretionary cash bonus scheme
  • Discretionary stock grant
  • Group Life Assurance cover
  • Group Income Protection
  • Occupation pension scheme based on Gross earnings
  • Hybrid working model
  • Above statutory annual leave, increasing with service
  • Daily company-paid lunch and healthy snack options throughout the day (when working from the office)
  • Access to Private Medical Insurance, Dental Plan and/or Health Cash Plan (including dependants) *
  • Corporate events
  • Travel season ticket loans*
  • Cycle to work scheme*

*on successful completion of the probation period

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