UI Engineer (Contractor)

Citadel Securities

UI Engineer (Contractor)

Reposted 8 Hours Ago

New York NY USA

In-Office

175K-350K Annually

Senior level

Information Technology • Software • Financial Services • Quantitative Trading

We embrace bold ideas and seize opportunities others don’t from the way we operate to the strategies we deploy.

The Role

Design prototype and build high-performance real-time web applications and visualizations for investment professionals. Gather requirements partner with traders and researchers deliver scalable UIs and improve platform workflows and performance.

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Job Description
Role Summary
In our mission to be the most successful investment team in the world we hire the brightest minds in technology research and finance to create innovative solutions that impact the financial markets and take data analysis to new levels. User Interface (UI) Engineers at Citadel Securities are crucial members of the team gathering requirements and continuously delivering high-quality applications. Our UI Engineers leverage advanced JavaScript knowledge and visualization skills to build scalable and performant web applications. These members of our team are thought leaders who engage the development community to push boundaries of what is the next generation our web platform.
Opportunities may be available from time to time in any location in which the business is based for suitable candidates. If you are interested in a career with Citadel please share your details and we will contact you if there is a vacancy available.
Responsibilities:

Develop solutions that enable our client facing investment professionals to research monitor and trade in real-time on internal/external information. This includes gathering requirements prototyping solutions and delivering final products that optimize users workflows and interactions across the investment process.
Partner with the industry's top analysts traders quantitative researchers and data scientists to design develop and deploy solutions that answer fundamental questions about financial markets.
Visualize financial data in a way that will allow investment professionals to discover new insights improve research processes and decision-making.
Drive our evolution by challenging the status quo and identifying opportunities to enhance our platform.

Qualifications:

5-10 years of work experience ideally within client/customer facing UX/UI development experience
Passion for working with users and developing solutions that deliver amazing user experience (multi-tenants real-time high performance web applications)
Experience with any of the following: React Angular Redux Electron WebAssembly Node.js
Experience with wire-framing prototyping and user-centric design
Proficiency with JavaScript (ES6) and TypeScript
Proficiency with HTML5 (Canvas WebWorkers WebSockets) CSS3 SASS
Strong written and verbal communications skills
Bachelor's Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

In accordance with applicable law the base salary range for this role is $175000 to $350000.
In addition the employee who fills this role will be eligible to participate in a discretionary incentive compensation program as well as a wide array of benefit programs such as medical and life insurance retirement and tax-free savings plans and access to other healthcare programs.
About Citadel Securities
Citadel Securities is a technology-driven next-generation global market maker. We provide institutional and retail investors with world-class liquidity competitive pricing and seamless front-to-back execution in a broad array of financial products. Our teams of engineers traders and researchers harness leading-edge quantitative research and the accelerating power of compute machine learning and AI to power our analytics and tackle the market's and our clients' most critical challenges. Together we are forging the future of capital markets. For more information visit citadelsecurities.com .

Skills Required

5-10 years of work experience ideally within client/customer facing UX/UI development experience
Passion for working with users and developing solutions that deliver amazing user experience (multi-tenant real-time high performance web applications)
Experience with React Angular Redux Electron WebAssembly Node.js
Experience with wire-framing prototyping and user-centric design
Proficiency with JavaScript (ES6) and TypeScript
Proficiency with HTML5 (Canvas WebWorkers WebSockets) CSS3 SASS
Strong written and verbal communications skills
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

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The Company

HQ: Miami FL

1900 Employees

Year Founded: 2002

What We Do

Citadel Securities is a technology-driven next-generation global market maker. We provide institutional and retail investors with world-class liquidity competitive pricing and seamless front-to-back execution in a broad array of financial products. Our teams of engineers traders and researchers harness leading-edge quantitative research and the accelerating power of compute machine learning and AI to power our analytics and tackle the market’s and our clients’ most critical challenges. Together we are forging the future of capital markets.

Why Work With Us

We do not accept the status quo and we are constantly looking to achieve what others think is impossible. That’s true not just in our careers but also in our communities.