Lead UI(React) Engineer (m/f/x) – Rates & Credit Trading Application Team

Job Description:

Job Title Lead UI(React) Engineer (m/f/x) – Rates & Credit Trading Application Team

Location London

Corporate Title Vice President

Deutsche Bank Technology is a global team of tech specialists, spread across multiple trading hubs and tech centres. We have a strong focus on promoting technical excellence – our engineers work at the forefront of financial services innovation using cutting-edge technologies. We are committed to building a diverse workforce and to creating excellent opportunities for talented engineers and technologists.

The Rates & Credit Suite of Applications is used daily by Fixed Income Traders and Middle Office Globally. These systems provide for all needs of Traders: providing liquidity to 10+ world's biggest multi-dealer platforms, receive and handle clients’ trading requests to execute trades, capture and service the trades through their sometimes 50year life cycle. Product range is wide - starting from Bonds, extending to REPO, Interest Rate Swaps (IRS) and ending with Exotic Portfolios. Dealing with complex financial products, we build these systems with a traceability and recoverability in mind. Wide diversity of products allows to see different styles of processing but also requires technology expertise to find reuse opportunities between various processing flows and products. 

As a Lead User Interface (UI) Engineer, you will be involved in the development of one of our next generation platforms for Rates & Credit Trading business which will kick-start this year and aims to be highly innovative and market-leading in its features.

What we’ll offer you

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

Hybrid Working

We understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a Hybrid Working Model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern

You can expect:

• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Lead the UI Team and work with business stakeholders on design of new features
• Be involved in the design of the UI framework and responsible for writing clean, testable code with a min coverage of 90%
• Code review of team members and code deployment to production
• Co-working with Quality Assurance (QA) team to test UI functionality, when required
• Investigate and fix production issues, when required

Your skills and experience

• Strong demonstrable experience of developing and delivering highly performant data intensive/low latency applications with React & TypeScript
• Experience in Front-end Software Development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript (ES5 and ES6+))
• Good understanding of the Browser Application Programming Interface’s (APIs) like Caching & WebSocket and with cross browser compatibility and optimization techniques/tools
• Experienced Test-driven development (TDD) practitioner with either of the following testing frameworks Jest/Karma/Mocha/Jasmine
• Familiar with web security, accessibility and internationalization
• Good working knowledge of Bash Scripting & Linux

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career

• Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities

• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us and our teams

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see who we are and more.

Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to have been named a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality

for three consecutive years. Additionally, we have been awarded a Silver Award from Stonewall for two years running and named in their Top 100 Employers for 2023 for our work supporting LGBTQ+ inclusion.

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.