Front-End Engineer

We are looking for a Front-End Engineer who is curious to understand all parts of Tyler Capital and translate that understanding into rich, intuitive, high-performance, high-quality web user interfaces. This role will have a strong affinity to the UI space while working as part of the full stack team.

About Tyler Capital

Tyler Capital is proprietary trading firm with a rich history spanning over 20 years. We are a systematic algorithmic trading firm, trading futures on the CME, Eurex, ICE and TMX. We are a small team with an open, collaborative culture where all members of the team have access to all parts of the code.

Tyler Capital uses its own technology for almost everything it does. This enables us to deeply understand the financial markets, our actions in them, and leverage the skills of our interdisciplinary team to improve and grow our business. Critical to our ability to do this is building rich, intuitive, innovative bespoke user interfaces for all to use.

Our user interfaces include:

• Tick-by-tick visualisation tools to understand the market, how our strategies act within it, and our internal latencies.
• Realtime monitoring and management of our systematic trading strategies and technology platform.
• Realtime and Historical Risk and PNL for both production systems and trading simulations.
• Data Pipeline and trading strategy training, backtest, and delivery platform.
• Market Surveillance, Regulatory Reporting, Reconciliation.

Candidates must be living in the UK and have the right to work here.

Key Responsibilities

• Development
• Working with internal end users, iterating rapidly our user interfaces, seeing directly the impact of your work.
• Maintain and enhance existing UIs to deliver a cohesive and coherent platform where new features can be leveraged across the board.
• Provide peer review and testing for other developers’ pull requests.
• New development is typically TypeScript and React, opportunity to take forward older UIs that use jQuery, HTML templates, etc.

• Operations
• Act as an escalation point for the Infrastructure and Operations team to resolve production and operational issues within your area of expertise.
• Collaborate with team members to address follow ups from production and operational issues.

Skills & Experience

• At least 4 years of professional programming experience.
• Experience designing and implementing user interfaces using React (essential). TypeScript is a plus.
• Solid understanding of computer science, designs patterns, algorithms and performance aspects across the whole stack
• Understanding of UI principles, patterns, and best practices.
• Experience with automated testing and testable UI is desirable.
• Experience with performance optimisation and scalability is desirable.
• Experience with trading platforms or other similar real time / high performance systems is desirable
• Experience with Java or Python is beneficial
• Understanding of financial markets or trading concepts is a plus.

Personal Attributes

• Demonstrable passion for creating great user experiences.
• High energy, motivation, and a proactive approach to challenges and problem-solving.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to explain technical concepts. Ability to form strong working relationships within the team.
• Entrepreneurial spirit and a commitment to excellence.
• Strong organizational skills and a disciplined approach to managing multiple streams of work.
• Dedication to continuous learning and professional development.

Benefits

• Competitive salary with annual compensation review (including discretionary bonus).
• Contributory pension scheme with salary sacrifice options.
• Private health insurance, with options for family coverage.
• 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 over time.
• Gym membership (‘flex’ allowance payment).
• Life Assurance/Death in Service.
• Working alongside highly experienced developers, traders and quants gaining great front-office experience. Ability to really make a difference in a small team.