What are the responsibilities and job description for the Frontend Developer position at Radley James?
Front-End Engineer – Electronic Trading
📍 New York (Hybrid)
💰 Base salary up to $160,000
We’re partnering with a global tier-one financial institution to hire a Front-End Engineer to build and evolve real-time trading interfaces used directly by front-office teams.
This role sits in a front-office engineering environment, working closely with traders, quants, and product to deliver high-performance, low-latency React applications that support live trading workflows across fixed income and currencies.
What you’ll be doing
- Designing and building event-driven React micro-frontends optimised for speed and throughput
- Owning front-end architecture for critical trading and pricing workflows
- Partnering directly with traders, sales, and quants to translate desk requirements into production systems
What they’re looking for
- Strong experience building real-time, high-performance front-end systems
- Expertise in React and modern JavaScript/TypeScript
- Experience working in front-office or low-latency environments (trading, market data, real-time systems)
Why this role?
- Front-office visibility and real ownership of mission-critical systems
- Competitive compensation (base up to $160k, plus additional incentives)
- Hybrid working model in New York
If you enjoy building fast, resilient UI systems where milliseconds matter, this is a role worth exploring.
Salary : $160,000