Senior Web Applications Developer - JavaScript/React/HTML

$150,000 - $150,000/Yr

Adaptive Financial Consulting Ltd - New York, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

Hybrid - New York, NY

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

At Adaptive, we are seeking a Web Applications Developer (React) to join our team and contribute to the development of an auction and trading platform for a large institutional client. As a financial consulting firm, we pride ourselves on our ability to deliver complex technology solutions that provide a competitive advantage to our clients, which include leading investment banks, investment managers, and fintech companies. Our team is dedicated to crafting elegant and robust financial applications using the latest technologies, and we are looking for someone who shares our passion for high-quality engineering and innovation. In this role, you will be responsible for building greenfield financial applications alongside your colleagues. You will utilize your extensive knowledge of React and Typescript to create interactive and visually appealing user interfaces. Your work will involve collaborating with server-side developers, user-experience designers, and business analysts to ensure that the applications meet the needs of our clients. You will also participate in a test-driven, agile environment, contributing to the overall quality and timely release of software. We value a collaborative team environment where everyone is encouraged to share their ideas and contribute to the growth of the company. You will have the opportunity to keep up to date with the latest developments in technology and adapt quickly to new tools and practices to enhance your work. At Adaptive, we believe in maintaining a healthy work/life balance and offer a hybrid working model along with various well-being benefits to support our employees.

Responsibilities

• Build greenfield financial applications alongside your Adaptive colleagues.
• Use the latest technology to create elegant and robust solutions.
• Contribute to building and releasing quality software on time.
• Utilize knowledge to build great-looking, event-driven, and highly interactive interfaces.
• Collaborate with server-side developers, user-experience designers, and business analysts.
• Participate in a test-driven, agile environment.
• Keep up to date with the developments in technology and quickly adapt to them.

Requirements

• Extensive knowledge of building application front ends, particularly with React.
• Typescript production experience; a preference for Typescript over Javascript.
• Strong understanding of HTML, CSS, Javascript, the DOM, and how it all comes together in the browser.
• Practical knowledge of modern web tooling - build tools, package managers, styling engines, web framework landscape, etc.
• Proficiency with client-side debugging tools (Chrome Developer Tools, React Devtools) as a means of improving performance.
• Experience working on front office systems.

Nice-to-haves

• Strong desire to raise the bar for your team technically.
• Tenacious, curious, and collaborative in all aspects of your work.
• Quick learner with excellent communication skills.

Benefits

• Medical from the 1st of month following your start date.
• Flat contribution to healthcare costs: Employee only - $480, Employee and partner - $965, Employee and children - $875, Family - $1355.
• Dental and vision from the 1st of the month following your start date - 80% contribution for employee and 70% for family.
• 23 days vacation per calendar year.
• Group disability insurance: short term and long term (60% and taxable).
• 401K safe harbor plan with a match of contributions up to 5% of base pay.
• Gym subsidy of $25 or 50% of your membership cost, whichever is lower.
• Life insurance at 2 x salary.
• Commuter benefits.
• Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account.