Equities Engineering | Product Frontend Engineer | New York

Posted 14 Hours Ago
New York, NY, USA
In-Office
105K-300K Annually
Mid level
Information Technology • Software • Financial Services • Quantitative Trading
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The Role
Develop and evolve investor-facing equities products using React and TypeScript. Partner with investors, product managers, UX designers, and engineering teams to understand workflows, prototype solutions, and deliver high-performance, data-intensive interfaces for research, risk analytics, portfolio analysis, and investment decisions. Own products end to end, from identifying user needs through launch and iteration, while maintaining high standards for quality, testing, performance, and maintainability.
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Job Description
Equities Engineering:
Equities Engineering powers the world's most successful Fundamental Equities business. Our platform finds an edge in the market through proprietary research, analytics, and portfolio management tools. Our investors are sector specialists who develop deep theses on the largest public companies globally. As one of the most product-obsessed engineering teams at Citadel, we design and deliver a sophisticated suite of tools that drive every stage of the investment process-from rigorous fundamental research to systematic portfolio construction.
Equities Product Frontend Engineers partner closely with trading, portfolio management, risk, and research teams to build high-impact, investor-facing products. In this role, you will own the full UI surface area for a segment of the investor workflow, operating with significant accountability, execution velocity, and direct commercial impact.
Role Responsibilities:
  • Own the end-to-end development and evolution of products for an Equities vertical, from identifying user pain points and opportunities through design, implementation, launch, and iteration.
  • Work directly with investors and other users to understand workflows, uncover opportunities to improve Citadel processes, and translate those insights into intuitive, high-impact product experiences.
  • Build data-intensive, high-performance applications using React and TypeScript, supporting workflows such as research, risk analytics, portfolio analysis, and investment decision-making.
  • Partner with Product Managers and UX Designers, contributing to product strategy, prioritization, and solution design with strong technical judgment, commercial awareness, and user empathy.
  • Rapidly prototype and iterate on new products and features, refining solutions with user feedback and real-world usage to maximize impact.
  • Maintain a high bar for engineering quality and ownership, delivering clean, well-tested, maintainable software while managing multiple products and priorities.

Requirements:
  • 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Strong frontend engineering expertise with advanced proficiency in React and TypeScript.
  • Demonstrated experience building and shipping production-grade, data-driven user interfaces.
  • Strong understanding of frontend architecture, state management, performance optimization, and component design.
  • Ability to operate independently with high ownership and accountability.
  • Proven product mindset, balancing technical excellence with commercial impact.
  • Excellent collaboration skills across engineering, product, and design teams.
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, iterative development environment.

Education:
Bachelor's degree in computer science or related STEM discipline required.
In accordance with applicable law, the base salary range for this role is $105,000 to $300,000.
In addition, the employee who fills this role will be eligible to participate in a discretionary incentive compensation program, as well as a wide array of benefit programs, such as medical and life insurance, retirement and tax-free savings plans, and access to other healthcare programs.
In accordance with applicable law, the base salary range for this role is $105,000 to $300,000.
In addition, the employee who fills this role will be eligible to participate in a discretionary incentive compensation program, as well as a wide array of benefit programs, such as medical and life insurance, retirement and tax-free savings plans, and access to other healthcare programs.
About Citadel Securities
Citadel Securities is a technology-driven, next-generation global market maker. We provide institutional and retail investors with world-class liquidity, competitive pricing and seamless front-to-back execution in a broad array of financial products. Our teams of engineers, traders and researchers harness leading-edge quantitative research and the accelerating power of compute, machine learning and AI to power our analytics and tackle the market's and our clients' most critical challenges. Together, we are forging the future of capital markets. For more information, visit citadelsecurities.com .

Skills Required

  • 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Advanced proficiency in React and TypeScript
  • Experience building and shipping production-grade, data-driven user interfaces
  • Strong understanding of frontend architecture, state management, performance optimization, and component design
  • Ability to operate independently with high ownership and accountability
  • Proven product mindset balancing technical excellence with commercial impact
  • Excellent collaboration skills across engineering, product, and design teams
  • Comfort working in a fast-paced, iterative development environment
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related STEM discipline

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The Company
HQ: Miami, FL
1,900 Employees
Year Founded: 2002

What We Do

Citadel Securities is a technology-driven, next-generation global market maker. We provide institutional and retail investors with world-class liquidity, competitive pricing and seamless front-to-back execution in a broad array of financial products. Our teams of engineers, traders and researchers harness leading-edge quantitative research and the accelerating power of compute, machine learning and AI to power our analytics and tackle the market’s and our clients’ most critical challenges. Together, we are forging the future of capital markets.

Why Work With Us

We do not accept the status quo and we are constantly looking to achieve what others think is impossible. That’s true not just in our careers, but also in our communities.

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