Front-end Engineer (React / TypeScript)

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver new features to a high standard with meaningful test coverage for Validus applications including the order management system and the risk management system.
• Work collaboratively with other teams on features spanning multiple parts of the stack.
• Give useful, thorough code reviews and pair with others across the team.
• Look to improve UI and UX across our product range to improve ease-of-use, and uphold consistency in our design principles.
• Participate in agile ceremonies, such as daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, estimation, and retrospectives.
• Bring ideas on the current technology stack and be part of the conversations about changing it, such as state management or how we manage our API calls.
• Help lay the technical foundations of real-time communication between back-end and front-end using WebSockets.
• Build on, and improve our implementation of Nx as a Front-end monorepo, built with Vite.
• Utilise Zustand and React Query (TanStack) for state and data management, and React Router for routing.
• Work on real-time data components, such as market data in graphs using HighCharts, to keep users up to-date.
• Use HandsOnTable to display large amounts of data, whilst improving performance to give the user an “excel” like feel within the browser.
• Use front-end monitoring and session replay to understand how features behave for real users, and to get to the bottom of reported issues.

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