Senior Front-End Software Engineer (Mid–Senior) - React, TypeScript, SSR (Next.js)

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

Senior Front-End Software Engineer
Location: Union, NJ | Hybrid
Get To Know The Team:

As a Senior Front-End Software Engineer, you’ll build user-facing features that are performant, accessible, and reliable. You will use React, TypeScript, and Next.js to deliver SSR/SSG/CSR solutions, contribute to our design system, and ship through modern CI/CD. Senior engineers will drive technical decisions and mentor peers.

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model & a Business Casual Dress Code, including jeans
• Your Future: 401(k) Matching Program, Professional Development Reimbursement
• Work/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays
• Your Wellbeing: Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave
• Wide Ranging Perspectives: Committed to Celebrating the Variety of Backgrounds, Talents, and Experiences of Our Employees
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University
• Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel, and more!

• Feature delivery: Implement end-to-end user stories in React/TypeScript with clean, testable code and responsive, accessible UI.

• Rendering strategy: Apply SSR/SSG/CSR appropriately (Next.js App Router, React Server Components/streaming) to balance SEO, performance, and complexity.

• Performance: Optimize for Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS); use code-splitting, lazy loading, caching, image optimization, and efficient state management.

• Design system: Build and maintain reusable components and tokens; document usage in Storybook; support theming and cross-app reuse.

• Quality & CI/CD: Add unit/e2e tests (Jest/Vitest, Playwright/Cypress), participate in reviews, and ship via automated pipelines (type checks, lint, a11y, visual regression).

• Accessibility (a11y): Ensure semantic HTML, ARIA, keyboard navigation, focus management, and contrast meet WCAG 2.2 AA.

• APIs & data: Collaborate with Backend on REST/GraphQL contracts; implement data-fetching patterns (React Query/TanStack, SWR) and error/empty states.

• Observability: Instrument telemetry (OpenTelemetry/console events), track client error rates and performance dashboards, and iterate based on data.

• (Senior) Tech leadership: Lead design docs/RFCs, make framework/library trade-offs, guide code reviews, and mentor junior/mid engineers.

• Mid-level: 3–5 years building production web apps with React, TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

• Senior: 5–8+ years, including leading feature delivery across services/teams and mentoring peers.

• Strong grasp of web performance (network, rendering, hydration), state management (React Query/Redux/Zustand/Signals), and API consumption (REST/GraphQL).

• Hands-on with testing (Jest/Vitest, Playwright/Cypress) and CI/CD.

• Practical accessibility skills (semantic HTML, ARIA, screen readers, focus, contrast).
   

• Next.js (App Router), React Server Components, streaming, and incremental static regeneration.

• Experience with design systems (tokens, Storybook), visual regression testing, and component governance.

• Micro-frontends (Module Federation) or monorepo tooling (Nx/Turborepo).

• Internationalization (i18n) at scale.

• Observability (Sentry, OpenTelemetry, New Relic) and experimentation/analytics.

• Edge runtimes/CDN strategies (Vercel/Cloudflare), plus familiarity with WebAssembly/WebGL when applicable.

• Interest in applying AI/ML to improve UX or DX (e.g., content suggestions, automated testing).

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! To further explore this opportunity, please apply through our careers page on the corporate website

at www.ssctech.com/careers.

Salary/wage rate is determined by various factors, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, job-related knowledge, skills, abilities, business needs, and geographic regions.

The expected base salary for the position in New Jersey is between 150,000.00 USD to 175,000.00 USD.

In addition to their salary, successful candidates may be eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus and stock options.

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