Principal UI Software Engineer

Join to apply for the Principal UI Software Engineer role at TP ICAP. The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure. Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions. Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions. The Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries. We are 5,300 people strong. We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world’s most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist.

TP ICAP’s Fusion platform is a multi-asset liquidity platform that is driving the transition of TP ICAP’s Global Broking business from voice to electronic protocols. The platform enables clients to smoothly access TP ICAP’s liquidity pools across all products, asset classes, brands and regions. It has been recognized as the OTC trading platform of the year by Risk Magazine.

Role Overview

The Principal UI Software Engineer will provide technical leadership on TP ICAP’s flagship Fusion platform. This includes the Fusion Platform UI team and setting the standards and direction of other UI Engineers across several Credit technology teams. They will demonstrate the benefits of approaches to development and delivery either through working as a team member or through group sessions. They should be the authority for decisions relating to standards and engineering best practices within their discipline. You will lead the design, development, and implementation of cutting-edge trading applications while driving the technical direction of the team.

The Principal Engineer will be passionate about software development and keen to use their technical skills to help their development teams to be successful. They should be comfortable working in agile teams, foster transparent communication, have a commitment to quality, and a focus on getting things done. Whilst there is scope to shape this role, it is expected to be hands-on coding, design and architecture as well as providing leadership and driving innovation.

Role Responsibilities

• Architect and develop high-performance, scalable, and robust trading systems, tools, and platforms.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, providing technical guidance and hands-on coding expertise.
• Act as the primary technical leader and developer on the Fusion UI team, demonstrating strong technical competencies.
• Be an expert in modern UI Engineering using React/Typescript/JavaScript and OO design principles.
• Provide technical oversight of the analysis and design for assigned projects.
• Design, develop, test and oversee production software solutions, including the development of highly complex systems.
• Communicate the architecture and principles behind a system to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Support the use of preferred planning and prioritisation tooling (JIRA) to capture and track deliveries.
• Ensure the team engages in a well-defined SDLC that supports planning, prioritisation and delivery needs.
• Identify opportunities to evolve systems towards target state architecture.

Communication and Leadership

• Work alongside Team Leaders, to provide technical leadership and direction for the development team.
• Participate in retrospectives and seek opportunities to drive best practice.
• Lead the software team to deliver high quality and innovative software solutions.
• Provide leadership and guidance to coach, motivate and lead team members to their optimum performance levels.

Change, Risk and Issue Management

• Guide and support team to identify and escalate risks as appropriate.
• Work with the Team Leaders to provide time and resource estimates.
• Share complex technical designs or issues with non-technical stakeholders.
• Identify tools and methodologies to improve the effectiveness of the development process.
• Manage risks and issues effectively with timely escalation to the project stakeholders.

Experience / Competences

Essential:

• Proven experience as a senior/principal engineer in high-performance trading systems or similar domains.
• Demonstrable experience in HTML5, React 16/17+, Typescript4/5+, JavaScript UI Libraries such as Material UI or Ant Design.
• CSS pre-processors such as SASS and LESS.
• Testing frameworks e.g. Jest.
• Performance profiling and optimisation.
• Build tools such as Webpack.
• Code quality and governance tools such as Sonarqube.
• Responsive design and cross-browser compatibility.
• Version control systems such as git.
• Agile development methodologies i.e. Scrum.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Desired:

• NX / Turbo repo or a similar monorepo approach, Node JS, Figma for mock-ups and collaboration.
• Design thinking.
• Use of Storybook.
• Knowledge of AWS or other cloud platforms.

Company Statement

We know that the best innovation happens when diverse people with different perspectives and skills work together in an inclusive atmosphere. That’s why we’re building a culture where everyone plays a part in making people feel welcome, ready and willing to contribute.

Location: UK - 135 Bishopsgate - London