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Senior Front End Engineer
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Senior Front End Engineer

In the competitive world of electronic trading, we use quantitative techniques and advanced technology to identify profitable trading opportunities around the globe. Old Mission has related trading entities that operate out of the United States (Chicago, New York, London and Singapore). Our organization is made up of individuals seeking to be part of a team that is constantly striving for improvement and never content with the status quo. Management is committed to the development of our team members and making sure they feel challenged and engaged in the company's growth.

The culture at Old Mission is hard-working but relaxed. We all enjoy what we are doing so it doesn't really seem like work. Most Old Mission employees have math or engineering backgrounds.  We all enjoy building things, tinkering, making things better and in general working on hard problems.  We are always looking for like-minded individuals to join our team.

As a senior frontend 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. 

What you'll be doing:

  • Articulate and contributing 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 & train other developers on coding standards and design philosophy.
  • Design internal tools to increase efficiency of data mining, risk management, and more.

What we look for in you:

  • 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.
  • You keep up with modern front end best practices including trends in performance, usability, and security.
  • You 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.

Old Mission is not accepting unsolicited resumes from any staffing/search firms. All resumes submitted by staffing/search firms to any employee at Old Mission via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid signed search agreement will be deemed the sole property of Old Mission, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Old Mission.