Senior Front End Engineer

About the Position

As a Senior Front End Engineer at Old Mission, you will help solve large scale, complex technical challenges and will build cutting edge, performant, and scalable frontend systems to help make a best-in-class trading experience for our end users. You'll work with traders, quantitative researchers, and other developers to build new systems and help improve existing ones, as well as work with our risk and security teams to ensure what you build is safe and trustworthy - all while not compromising on user experience. 

Responsibilities

• Articulate and contribute towards a long term technical direction for maintaining and scaling our frontend systems
• Build out performant & intuitive trading interfaces using modern web tools like Typescript, React, Redux, Jest, and Webpack
• Mentor and train other developers on coding standards and design philosophy
• Design internal tools to increase efficiency of data mining, risk management, and more

Required Skills

• At least 4 years of experience developing and shipping web applications using modern, component-based JavaScript frameworks like React
• A desire to work closely with users, gather feedback, and understand their problems
• Experience shipping products from start to finish
• Great communication skills along with a team player mentality
• Keep up with modern front end best practices including trends in performance, usability, and security
• Write high quality, well tested code

Nice to haves

• Experience with automated testing and building
• Experience with Websockets & Protocol Buffers
• Experience with Linux, Postgres
• Experience building multi-window frontend applications, web workers, OpenGL, Canvas API

• Competitive salary with discretionary annual bonus
• Fully paid Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, and Life Insurance
• Fully stocked kitchen; free breakfast and lunch every day on-site
• Tuition Reimbursement Program
• 401(k) with employer match
• Flexible Spending Plan
• Commuter Benefit Program