Lead UI Engineer (React)
Job Summary
Job Description
Lab49 is seeking a Lead UI Engineer with React expertise to join their team in New York. This role involves partnering with clients to design and build marketplace experiences using modern web technologies. You will manage a team of UI engineers, design technical solutions for new financial services businesses, and contribute to the UI engineering community within Lab49. The position requires hands-on engineering and architectural work, client interaction, and maintaining strong client relationships. You will also assist in business development by creating compelling pitches and defining solutions. This role offers accelerated career growth through exposure to diverse environments, technologies, and challenges within the finance sector.
Must have:
- 10+ years of experience in software application design and building.
- 5+ years leading Agile teams.
- Experience designing technical solutions.
- Experience managing project teams and client interactions.
- Experience with JavaScript and TypeScript.
- Experience with React or similar frameworks.
- Understanding of SDLC practices like continuous delivery.
- Strong understanding of testing, quality, and code reviews.
Good to have:
- Backend engineering experience (.NET, Java, Python).
- Experience with financial products (Bloomberg, Symphony).
- Experience with Salesforce, Databricks.
14 skills required
Job Details
Lab49 is an award-winning specialist consultancy that creates bespoke technology in partnership with the most important companies in finance. We were founded in 2002 to bring Silicon Valley solutions to Wall Street’s door. Since then, we have worked on successive waves of technological change, including distributed computing, high-speed automation, enterprise UX and digital distribution (for which Lab49 was among the first significant practices established on Wall Street), DevOps, cloud and data science.
Today, we are an established partner in financial markets, having delivered hundreds of projects for clients including all the world’s tier-one investment banks and many of the largest buy-side firms globally.
Being part of Lab49 means bringing your drive and creativity into an environment where your contributions will make immediate impact. Engineers will work in cross functional teams, consulting directly with our clients, shaping not only technical solutions to business problems but delivering them into production.
The Lead UI Engineer will play a critical role on key projects for Lab49 clients. Working in a collaborative and innovative project team, with direct client-facing interactions, you will have an opportunity to apply your skills and expertise to design innovative applications that solve complex problems and enhance performance and productivity at our marquis clients.
What you’ll be doing:
- Partnering with our client to lead the design and build of a marketplace experience using modern web development technology and techniques. You will be responsible for managing a team of UI engineers, and the relationships with other key contributors to deliver great software.
- Managing the technical solution design for a green field application to help launch a startup financial services business. Design, document, and plan for the technical implementation and delivery of working software into production.
- Contribute to the Interactive Practice: The UI engineering team within Lab49. This means bringing your passion and opinionated view of what makes for great UI development to the wider UI engineering community within Lab49 and helping build the culture of high-quality software development that enables our ability to deliver on client engagements.
- Act as a hands-on engineer and architect to support work across the Interactive front-end Interactive Practice, from small initiatives to the design and build of complex systems. Lead and actively participate in projects, serving as a role model for project teams and collaborating with other practices to ensure successful outcomes.
- Partner with client counterparts and stakeholders to maintain and build relationships, maintaining a commercial approach. Develop strong relationships with clients as a strategic partner and technical advisor, contributing to expanding our footprint and securing follow-on work.
- Partner with the Lab49 business development team to create and deliver compelling pitches, defining problems, captivating clients, presenting solutions, and working out engagement terms. Build and reinforce your professional network through active engagement in industry events, public speaking opportunities, etc.
- Assist in developing effective management skills and practices among line managers in the Engineering practice, fostering strategic career planning and development for the engineering team as a whole.
What you should have:
- 10+ years of hands-on experience designing and building complex, commercial-grade software applications, with 5+ years leading Agile teams.
- Proven track record in effective leadership, problem-solving, and decision-making.
- Experience designing holistic technical solutions, managing integrations with third party services and APIs, and deploying applications into production.
- Experience managing project teams and interacting with clients in finance, consulting, or start-up environments.
- A passion for technology and innovation, staying informed about the latest industry trends through active participation in industry events, meet-ups, and more.
- Experience with JavaScript and TypeScript, with modern frameworks specifically React although experience with similar frameworks is welcome (e.g., Angular, Vue, or others).
- Experience with one or more cloud platforms with a working understanding of contemporary SDLC practices such as continuous delivery.
- Strong understanding of the value of testing, quality, continuous integration, source control, and code reviews.
- Experience in capital markets, financial markets/products, consulting is highly desirable.
Bonus points:
- Backend engineering experience, ideally with .NET, Java, Python
- Experience working with common financial products such as Bloomberg, Symphony, or other tools commonly used in a finance context such as Salesforce, Databricks, and others.
Why Lab49?
Lab49 is an established partner for most financial institutions on Wall Street. You will gain exposure into a variety of environments, business domains, technologies, and people. Your ability to bring drive and creativity to the role will be the key component to success at Lab49. The broad and intense exposure to a variety of challenges accelerates your career growth, and Lab49’s structure is designed to enable you to learn and grow as an engineer and consultant.
The base salary range is:
• Senior to Leadership level - $190,000 - $230,000
Base salary is only one component of our total compensation package. Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus, which is determined upon company and individual performance.
Salary range disclosure as required by S9427A when hiring in New York.
Lab49/ION is committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive environment for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We respect the varied identities, abilities, cultures, and traditions of the individuals who comprise our organization and recognize the value that different backgrounds and points of view bring to our business.
Lab49/ION adheres to an equal employment opportunity policy that prohibits discriminatory practices or harassment against applicants or employees based on any legally impermissible factor.
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About The Company
We’re visionary innovators who are delivering mission-critical trading and workflow automation software to financial institutions, corporations, central banks, and governments. By combining our passion for automation with a strategic view on the industries we serve, we design solutions that improve decision-making, simplify complex processes, and empower people. Simply put, we help our customers do more, faster and better than before. We believe our investments in research and development are shaping the future of automation and enabling our customers to transform their business. And we embrace the power of community, working with each other and with our customers to succeed through a positive culture of continuous improvement.
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