Senior Frontend Engineer

Posted Yesterday
Hiring Remotely in Canada
Remote
150K-170K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Financial Services
The Role
Lead frontend development for the DataLab product, guiding technical direction, architecture, component design, accessibility, performance, and developer experience. Build scalable React and TypeScript interfaces, collaborate with product and backend teams, mentor engineers, and establish UI standards. Use AI-assisted coding tools responsibly and contribute to unit, component, and end-to-end testing with technologies including GraphQL, Jest, Testing Library, Playwright, and Storybook.
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The Company
 
Capital Markets Gateway LLC (CMG) is a capital markets-focused fintech transforming global equity capital markets (ECM) through data, technology, and connectivity. As the preferred source for ECM analytics and the first network connecting the buy-side and sell-side for ECM workflows, we are committed to reshaping how capital markets operate. Founded in 2017 by a team of ECM practitioners, CMG has completed three successful fundraising rounds and is backed by a group of the world’s most prestigious financial institutions. The CMG platform is currently relied upon by 25 global investment banks and 135 asset managers representing $40 trillion in AUM. For more information, please visit www.cmgx.io.  
 
The Role 

We’re looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to join the Mission Control team (DataLab product) as the frontend technical lead for the western hemisphere-based team. As a frontend engineer, you will play a critical role in crafting user-centric, performant, and scalable interfaces that power our enterprise financial solutions using industry standard technologies like React, TypeScript, and GraphQL.  

You will collaborate closely with product managers, back-end engineers, and engineering leaders to translate complex business requirements into clean, maintainable code. You will contribute to frontend architecture decisions, establish best practices in UI development, and champion design consistency, accessibility, and overall product quality.  

You will also be empowered to use modern agentic coding tools thoughtfully to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, explore solutions, and raise the team’s engineering leverage while maintaining strong judgment, ownership, and review standards.  

 
Our Engineering Team 
 
The CMG engineering team is made up of domain experts who collaborate across disciplines and share knowledge openly. We value engineers who are passionate about modern technologies and best practices who can raise the bar for React, TypeScript, UI architecture, testing, accessibility, and developer experience. Our engineers are encouraged to challenge the status quo and are constantly seeking improvement and efficiency in our codebase and platform. CMG engineers are empowered to explore solutions and bring recommendations to the table. We are in a period of making impactful engineering decisions, and this role will help guide frontend technical direction through research, prototyping, code review, and production-quality implementation. 

Responsibilities

    • Serve as the frontend technical lead for CMG’s DataLab product, helping set direction for the Mission Control team in the Western Hemisphere. 

    • AI is changing how software gets built. In this role you'll contribute to the frontend development harness, push it hard as a daily user, and champion it across the team. 

    • Develop and maintain complex, scalable user interfaces for web applications using React and TypeScript. 

    • Partner with your cross functional product team to come up with the best solution, regardless of role boundaries or where the work technically sits. 

    • Guide frontend architecture, component design, accessibility, performance, and developer experience improvements.  

    • Contribute to overall product quality through unit, component, and E2E tests. 

Qualifications

    • React: 5+ years 

    • TypeScript: 5+ years 

    • Software engineering: 10+ years 

    • Experience leading frontend technical decisions, mentoring engineers, and driving UI architecture standards 

    • Demonstrated ability to use agentic coding tools (we use Claude, Codex, and CoPilot) productively while maintaining high standards for correctness, security, maintainability, and team collaboration 

    • Modern JavaScript ecosystem experience 

    • Solid full-stack experience is expected (Node.js or otherwise, we are a .NET shop) 

    • Fintech experience is a plus 

Our Tech Stack

    • React - We’re all in on React – we maintain multiple single-page React apps 

    • TypeScript – 99% of our frontend codebase is TypeScript 

    • GraphQL - served by a.NET GraphQL gateway 

    • Nx monorepo 

    • Testing – Jest/Testing Library/Playwright/Storybook 

    • Material UI - CMG’s design system is built on a tried-and-true component library 

    • Containerized - Run the entire stack on your machine with one click 

    • Automatic preview environments created for every PR 

    • Playwright and own data-seeding framework for E2E testing 

    • AI-assisted and agentic coding workflows to improve productivity, discovery, testing, and delivery 

Our Values

  • We innovate with purpose  
  • We focus on outcomes vs. output  
  • We believe diverse and inclusive teams fuel innovation  
  • We are humble yet candid  
  • We do right by the customer 

What We Offer

    • Equity 

    • Unlimited PTO (28 days including bank holidays + unlimited additional paid leave) 

    • Comprehensive benefits program managed by Globalization Partners 

    • Premium life and income protection 

    • Top private medical and dental insurance 

    • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) 

    • Pension contributions 

    • Hybrid work environment (initially remote until office setup is complete) 

    • Education reimbursement 

    • Continuous learning opportunities 

    • Employee referral bonus 

    • Parental leave 

CMG embraces our ongoing commitment to building a culture reflecting the people, perspectives, and passions it represents. We will accept nothing less than equity, inclusion, and belonging for all. With the only constant in life being change, we will always listen, learn, and improve for the betterment of our teams, customers, and communities. CMG is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. 

Skills Required

  • 5+ years of React experience
  • 5+ years of TypeScript experience
  • 10+ years of software engineering experience
  • Experience leading frontend technical decisions
  • Experience mentoring engineers
  • Experience driving UI architecture standards
  • Demonstrated productive use of agentic coding tools, including Claude, Codex, or GitHub Copilot
  • Modern JavaScript ecosystem experience
  • Solid full-stack experience with Node.js or another backend technology
  • Fintech experience
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The Company
HQ: Chicago, IL
91 Employees
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

Capital Markets Gateway (CMG) is a financial technology firm that is modernizing the equity capital markets (ECM). CMG connects investors and underwriters via a neutral platform that delivers integrated ECM data and analytics, unrivaled transparency, and workflow efficiencies. Providing a digital system of record for firm-wide deal activity, CMG helps clients make more timely, better-informed decisions. Launched in 2017 by a team of ECM practitioners, the CMG platform is currently relied upon by nearly 100 buy side firms representing $12 trillion in AUM and 15 investment banks.

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