KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & ACCOUNTABILITY
- As a Senior UI Engineer, you will help shape the evolution of StarCompliance’s front-end engineering discipline — building scalable, performant, and maintainable interfaces that delight our users.
- Build, maintain, and evolve front-end features and components using React, TypeScript, and modern web tooling.
- Contribute to the design and development of Star’s design system and component library, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and scalability.
- Collaborate with designers to translate design concepts into production-ready, pixel-perfect interfaces.
- Optimize front-end performance and maintain high standards for accessibility and cross-browser compatibility.
- Participate in architectural discussions, helping to define Star’s front-end strategy, tooling, and best practices.
- Write robust, testable code with high unit test coverage using Jest and React Testing Library.
- Work within modular or micro-frontend environments, integrating components across distributed systems.
- Mentor and support other engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, and QA teams to ensure quality is built into every stage of development.
- Champion modern UI engineering practices including CI/CD integration, component reusability, and automated testing.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
- 5+ years of professional front-end engineering experience, with strong expertise in React and TypeScript.
- Proven experience designing or maintaining scalable component libraries or design systems.
- Excellent knowledge of modern JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3/Sass, and build tools.
- Familiarity with state management tools (React Query, Redux, Jotai, or similar).
- Experience working with Material UI or similar frameworks and extending them as needed.
- Solid understanding of testing frameworks (Jest, Testing Library) and CI/CD integration.
- Comfortable collaborating in cross-functional agile teams, with strong communication and problem-solving skills.
- Experience with performance optimization, accessibility (WCAG), and responsive design.
- Exposure to Azure DevOps pipelines and .NET environments beneficial.
- Strategic mindset with the ability to balance delivery speed, user experience, and technical excellence.
Top Skills
What We Do
StarCompliance is the world's leading provider of compliance software to the global financial industry. Our clients include asset managers, broker-dealers, private equity firms, insurance providers, investment banks, and diversified financial institutions. Our scalable, easy-to-use solutions provide a 360-degree view of employee and business activity to help firms monitor and reduce risk, meet regulatory obligations, gain efficiencies, and drive employee adoption.
Our Employee Conflicts of Interest suite provides clients a single place for monitoring and mitigating potential employee conflicts, covering: personal trading activity; insider trading; private investments, gifts and entertainment spending; outside business activities; and political donations. The STAR Mobile app supports personal trading pre-clearance requests and gifts and entertainment spending submissions, and allows compliance officers and employee supervisors to review and approve those requests and submissions on-the-go. Compliance Control Room centralizes all firm deal-related activity—automatically surfacing critical data that might otherwise be missed—and allowing for easier conflict searches, so deals can be cleared faster and with greater confidence.
