Lead Front End Developer

  • Full-time

Company Description

SteelEye is a fast growing FinTech company based in London and has offices in Bangalore, France and Portugal that offers a data platform to help financial institutions such as Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, Brokerage Firms, Asset Management Firms to comply with financial regulations. Our clients can aggregate, search, surveillance and report on trade, communications and market data. SteelEye also enables customers to gain powerful insights from their data, helping them to trade with greater efficiency and profitability.

The company has a highly experienced management team and a strong board, who have decades of technology and management experience and worked in senior positions at many leading international financial businesses.

We are looking to hire a seasoned Lead Front End Developer to join us as we start on our next phase of growth. We have a culture of openness, collaboration, and the passion to get things done whilst appreciating the importance of a good work life balance.

Being part of a start-up can be equally exciting as it is challenging. You will be part of the SteelEye team not just because of your talent but also because of your entrepreneurial flare which we thrive on at SteelEye. This means we want you to be curious, contribute, ask questions and share ideas. We encourage you to get involved in helping shape our business.

Job Description

  • Develop new user-facing features using React.js and Redux and improve existing features
  • Mentor and lead the front end development team
  • Be a thought leader in front-end technologies and space
  • Translate designs and mock-ups into reusable, high quality code
  • Build robust, reusable and easy-to-maintain components
  • Optimise components for maximum performance
  • Ensure software is up-to-date with the latest technologies
  • Triage issues and enhance core features for a rapidly-growing application

Qualifications

  • A well organized self-starter with excellent communication skills
  • Someone with a thorough and demonstrable understanding of React.js and its core principles
  • Broad experience and strong proficiency in JavaScript based technologies
  • You have advanced communication skills with a focus on improving individual team member and overall team performance
  • Good ability to translate business requirements into high-quality, high-performance code
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and can adapt to changing requirements
  • Familiarity and up-to-date knowledge of common front-end dev tools (e.g. Babel, Webpack, NPM, Yarn, etc...)
  • You are familiar with RESTful APIs
  • Extensive experience with code versioning (Git) and CI/CD (Jenkins, Circle, etc...) tools
  • Familiarity/Experience with Elasticsearch and/or D3 is a huge plus

Additional Information

We really care about our people as they are the heart and soul of the company. We offer 25 days annual leave, private medical cover, Company pension scheme and life insurance plus we host lots of social events and activities as well as charity events over the year. Our London office is based on the Strand in the heart of London and we have offices in Bangalore, India and Braga, Portugal.

 

Role Location: London

Target Start Date: August 2021