Doran Jones

Lead React Engineer

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2 Locations

Hybrid

125K-200K Annually

Senior level

Financial Services

The Role

Lead the front-end redesign of a trading platform using React.js. Collaborate with various teams to deliver high-performance UI components and ensure optimal scalability and maintainability.

Summary Generated by Built In

We are seeking a Senior React.js Developer to lead the front-end redesign of a next-generation trading platform for a top-tier financial services organization. You will play a key role in shaping the user experience for high-performance trading workflows, partnering closely with engineering, trading, and design teams to deliver an intuitive, scalable, and robust platform.

Responsibilities

Lead the front-end architecture and development of the new Portfolio Management System UI using React.js and modern web technologies.
Collaborate with backend engineers, UX/UI designers, and product owners to deliver seamless, data-rich trading experiences.
Build high-performance, real-time, and responsive UI components that integrate with complex APIs and data streams.
Ensure scalability, maintainability, and performance optimization across all front-end modules.
Establish best practices in coding standards, testing, and CI/CD workflows.
Contribute to the overall technical strategy and roadmap, advocating for user-centered design and modern development practices.

Required Experience

8+ years of front-end engineering experience, with 5+ years specializing in React.js and its ecosystem (Redux, TypeScript, React Query, etc.).
Proven experience building complex, data-intensive enterprise applications — ideally within trading, fintech, or other high-performance domains.
Deep understanding of JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3, and front-end build tools (Webpack, Vite, or similar).
Strong grasp of RESTful APIs, WebSockets, and real-time data integration.
Experience with AWS or cloud-based environments and modern deployment pipelines.
Passion for UI/UX design excellence, clean code, and high-performance web applications.

McLaren Strategic Solutions is a leading-edge global technology consulting firm, addressing critical challenges across industries such as retail, financial services, and healthcare. Integrating a powerful ecosystem of platforms with capital-efficient execution, McLaren specializes in digital transformation to help businesses optimize operations, accelerate revenue, and achieve scalable outcomes. McLaren’s expertise spans the development of customer-centric applications, modernizing systems for cost-effectiveness and security, and leveraging cloud scalability for future-ready architectures. With a deep commitment to operational excellence, McLaren provides comprehensive managed services, including application maintenance, cybersecurity, platform solutions, and AI-optimized operations, ensuring seamless, secure, and efficient performance.

From supply chain automation to compliance and analytics, McLaren drives measurable impact: improving workforce productivity, reducing inventory costs, and cutting technology ownership expenses. With its emphasis on automation and zero business downtime, McLaren facilitates seamless migrations from legacy systems to modern platforms, enabling organizations to harness the full potential of digital transformation. Backed by strategic partnerships and a proven delivery model, McLaren empowers clients to innovate, modernize, and achieve lasting success in today’s digital economy.

McLaren is a certified minority owned business through the NMSDC and has a mission to place more people from non-traditional backgrounds into sustainable technology careers. Through partnerships with non-profit technology programs in underserved communities and Veteran organizations, candidates transition from tech training programs into real IT careers at McLaren. Our unique recruitment policy allows us to create exceptional teams, bringing a broad spectrum of experience to our company and creating anything but a traditional consulting firm.

Visit McLaren Strategic Solutions to learn more!

Doran Jones Inc. is proud to be part of the McLaren Strategic Ventures Group.

Top Skills

AWS

CSS3

HTML5

JavaScript

React Query

React

Redux

Restful Apis

Typescript

Vite

Webpack

Websockets

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The Company

HQ: Charlotte, NC

52 Employees

Year Founded: 2010

What We Do

Doran Jones Inc. (DJI) is the leading financial services Data Engineering and Application Development firm, specializing in Capital Markets, Risk, and Regulatory Compliance. We are US-based, helping our clients fill gaps in capacity and expertise, reduce risk, and accelerate change. Our leaders average over 25 years of experience in Financial Services and Technology. DJI is repeatedly engaged by the largest and most complex clients for our Agile transformation expertise and practical understanding of the critical relationship between data, architecture, and application development.

DJI has a mission to place more people from non-traditional backgrounds into sustainable technology careers. Through partnerships with non-profit technology programs in underserved communities and Veteran organizations, candidates transition from tech training programs into real IT careers at DJI. Our unique recruitment policy allows us to create exceptional teams, bringing a broad spectrum of experience to our company and creating anything but a traditional consulting firm.

DJI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of McLaren Strategic Ventures, a private equity firm, that invests in start-ups and scale-ups. They provide a full range of highly trusted domain consulting, advisory services, and innovative technologies globally. Doran Jones is able to offer a broad range of technology, deeper AI and machine learning tools, data intelligence, alternative resourcing capabilities, and capital access to invest and digitize at scale. Our clients benefit from this unique portfolio allowing them to accelerate the pace of their own digital transformations through innovative products and services designed around industry-wide issues.