Frontend developer

• We are building a financial platform that will research and run systematic trading strategies.
• We collaborate with the quant team on strategies research, risk modeling, and portfolio optimizations. Our software engineering team embeds the corresponding logic into the platform.
• Similar systems already exist on the market, but quants need to use several of them to research and run trading strategies. Our client’s idea is to build a system that can do it all.
• Client: Several quants with 15+ years of Wall Street experience.
• Team: 25 people divided into three sub-teams.

Project’s Stack

• Frontend: Typescript, Material UI, React, Jest, ESLint, Recharts.
• Backend (Microservices): Kotlin, Groovy, Python, Micronaut, Flask, Gatling, Locust, Spock, FastAPI, Pytest, Pandas, NumPy, SQLAIchemy, Yoyo.
• Databases: AWS DocumentDB, PostgreSQL.
• Infrastructure/pipelines: AWS, Airflow, Terraform, Terraspace, Docker, Gradle, Tekton, VCS, Git.

What a Frontend developer will do:

• Create high-quality code according to Algothic’s standards
• Clarify feature requirements
• Communicate with the client and the team
• Conduct weekly demos to end users; improve features based on feedback
• Complete related tasks, for example, estimate features and analyze the system’s security

What we expect from a Frontend developer:

• 2+ years of experience in Frontend web application development using any JS framework, including 6+ months of experience on React
• At least Upper-Intermediate English
• Knowledge of and ability to work with git: branches, pull requests, merge and rebase
• Commercial experience working with Typescript

Will be a plus:

• You have written unit and integration tests
• You understand the principles of TDD and can apply them
• You have worked with Kotlin or another backend programming language
• You have worked with AWS