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Frontend Engineer - Hedge Fund
About The Role
We are looking for a Frontend Engineer to build intuitive, high-performance user interfaces for trading, risk, and research platforms at a leading hedge fund. Your work will empower quantitative researchers, portfolio managers, and risk analysts with real-time insights and seamless workflows in one of the most dynamic industries in the world.
As a mid-level engineer with around 5 years of experience, you’ll take ownership of core features, collaborate with backend and quantitative engineering teams, and continuously grow your expertise in building responsive, data-driven web applications. This is a chance to apply your frontend skills in a fast-paced environment where technology directly influences investment outcomes.
What You’ll Do
This is an opportunity to bring your frontend expertise into the world of quantitative finance, where technology and speed make a measurable difference. You’ll build tools that enable traders and researchers to act with confidence, while growing your skills in one of the most innovative and high-stakes industries. You’ll be challenged, you’ll learn quickly, and your work will have direct impact.
About Andiamo
Talent Partners for the AI Revolution. As a globally recognized staffing and consulting firm, we specialize in placing the top 2% of technology and go-to-market professionals with the world’s largest and most well-known companies.
For over 20 years, we've maintained the status of tier-one vendor for firms such as Palantir, Amazon, Fluidstack, Bloomberg, Relativity Space, Firefly, MasterCard, Visa, Two Sigma, Citadel, as well as other major financial services firms, elite hedge funds, Google-backed tech start-ups, and major software firms.
Our talent solutions include Permanent Placement, Contract Staffing, Executive Search, and Dedicated Recruiting Services (RPO). Find out more at www.andiamogo.com
About The Role
We are looking for a Frontend Engineer to build intuitive, high-performance user interfaces for trading, risk, and research platforms at a leading hedge fund. Your work will empower quantitative researchers, portfolio managers, and risk analysts with real-time insights and seamless workflows in one of the most dynamic industries in the world.
As a mid-level engineer with around 5 years of experience, you’ll take ownership of core features, collaborate with backend and quantitative engineering teams, and continuously grow your expertise in building responsive, data-driven web applications. This is a chance to apply your frontend skills in a fast-paced environment where technology directly influences investment outcomes.
What You’ll Do
- Develop User Interfaces: Build responsive, data-rich web applications that traders and analysts rely on daily.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work with backend engineers and quantitative researchers to integrate complex data and models into intuitive interfaces.
- Ensure Performance: Optimize applications for speed, scalability, and responsiveness under real-time market conditions.
- Maintain Code Quality: Write clean, testable, maintainable code while contributing to peer reviews and team standards.
- Contribute to Design Systems: Help evolve component libraries and UI frameworks that support consistency and rapid development.
- Continuous Learning: Stay up-to-date with modern frontend technologies while expanding knowledge of financial systems.
- Professional Experience: 5 years building production-grade frontend applications.
- Languages & Frameworks: Strong proficiency in JavaScript (ES6 ), TypeScript, and experience with React (Vue or Angular also a plus).
- Styling & Tooling: Familiarity with CSS3, SCSS, Tailwind, styled-components, and build tools like Webpack, Vite, or Rollup.
- Testing: Experience with Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, or Playwright.
- Data Visualization: Exposure to libraries such as D3.js, Highcharts, or Plotly is a strong plus.
- Cloud & CI/CD: Experience deploying applications in AWS, GCP, or Azure and working with CI/CD pipelines.
- Collaboration: Ability to communicate effectively with designers, backend engineers, and quantitative researchers.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
This is an opportunity to bring your frontend expertise into the world of quantitative finance, where technology and speed make a measurable difference. You’ll build tools that enable traders and researchers to act with confidence, while growing your skills in one of the most innovative and high-stakes industries. You’ll be challenged, you’ll learn quickly, and your work will have direct impact.
About Andiamo
Talent Partners for the AI Revolution. As a globally recognized staffing and consulting firm, we specialize in placing the top 2% of technology and go-to-market professionals with the world’s largest and most well-known companies.
For over 20 years, we've maintained the status of tier-one vendor for firms such as Palantir, Amazon, Fluidstack, Bloomberg, Relativity Space, Firefly, MasterCard, Visa, Two Sigma, Citadel, as well as other major financial services firms, elite hedge funds, Google-backed tech start-ups, and major software firms.
Our talent solutions include Permanent Placement, Contract Staffing, Executive Search, and Dedicated Recruiting Services (RPO). Find out more at www.andiamogo.com