Lead JavaScript Developer

About the position

Tradeweb Markets is a world leader in the evolution of electronic trading. A fintech company serving approximately 2,500 clients - including the world's largest banks, asset managers, hedge funds, insurance companies, wealth managers and retail clients -- in more than 65 countries across the globe. Since our first trade in 1998, we have helped transform and electronify the fixed income markets. Tradeweb is a culture built on innovation, creativity and collaboration. Through a combination of very talented and driven people, innovative products and solutions, cutting-edge technology, market data, and a vast network of clients, we continue to work together to improve the way financial markets trade. We are looking for a Lead JavaScript Engineer to join us in building the HTML5-based UI for our global, market-leading trading platform. You will be a highly skilled, hands-on engineer with an exceptional track record of delivery of complex software, specializing in Angular, TypeScript, Rx.js, and JavaScript, all of which we are using to build a unified UI for the whole of Tradeweb in a company-wide UI monorepo. The monorepo contains both application and library code, and quality is essential. We want to keep the monorepo as the best place to build, test, and collaborate on JavaScript code, and make constant improvements that can be applied across the whole platform.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for delivering software end-to-end.
• Team leadership.
• Liaising with product managers and designers, coordinating across international development teams on engineering and architecture, and working with QA and dev ops teams.
• Deliver a quality, innovative product to the traders and investors who depend on our platform every day.
• Architecture, implementation, and delivery of new web-based trading UI functionality.
• Problem solving and debugging skills, especially for production issues.
• Hosting and participating in code review.

Requirements

• Education: at least Bachelor's Degree, preferably in Computer Science.
• At least 5 years' professional web application development experience.
• Expert-level JavaScript knowledge, and curiosity to learn more.
• Angular 17+ - the more in-depth your understanding, the better.
• TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, SASS.
• Superior analytical and problem-solving ability.
• Effective communication skills to work with different teams across an international company.
• Automated unit testing and test-driven development.
• Broad knowledge of web platform and technologies.
• Robust understanding of performance issues, computational complexity, and code optimization.
• Familiarity and implementation of industry-standard algorithms and design patterns.
• Proactive and team player who can deliver in a high-pressure demanding environment.
• Interest in UX and UI design implementation.
• Interest in DevOps and tooling.

Nice-to-haves

• Node.js microservices, Nest.js, Mongo, Docker - helpful.

Benefits

• Health Insurance: Highly competitive medical, dental, and vision programs.
• Hybrid Environment: Flexibility of working in the office and from home.
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Maven Family Building Benefit: $10,000 lifetime reimbursement towards fertility, egg freezing, adoption and surrogacy expenses.
• 401(k) Savings Plan: Employees are immediately eligible for the 401(k) plan with matching.
• Discretionary bonus program.
• Pre-Tax Commuter Benefits Program.
• ARAG Legal Services.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Tuition Reimbursement.
• Financial Wellness Tools.
• Travel Assistance Benefits.
• Pet Insurance.
• Corporate Gym Subsidies.
• Wellness Perks.
• Paid Time Off and Parental Leave.