Front end React/ Typescript developer-W2 only

About the role

In this role, you will own the design and development of a modern React frontend which integrates with a Spring Boot backend, enabling financial analysts and quants to model securities quickly, accurately, and intuitively. You'll work closely with business stakeholders, quantitative analysts, and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver high-impact solutions in a financial environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Frontend Development: Design and build responsive, performant UIs in React (with TypeScript preferred) that allow users to configure, run, and visualize results across multiple security types.
• Code Quality & Testing: Write clean, maintainable code backed by comprehensive automated tests using React Testing Library / Jest, with strong unit and integration coverage.
• Technical Debt & Continuous Improvement: Proactively identify and resolve defects, reduce technical debt, and champion software engineering best practices across the codebase.
• Collaboration & Delivery: Coordinate across the full stack data, services, APIs, and infrastructure to deliver end-to-end.
• Design & Code Reviews: Actively contribute to architecture discussions, pull request reviews, and technical documentation with a focus on thoughtful, scalable design.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience, with strong proficiency in TypeScript and React, including component architecture, state management (e.g., Redux, Zustand, or React Query), and API integration.
• 2–3 years of experience with Git in a collaborative, team-based development workflow (branching strategies, PRs, code reviews).
• Strong communication skills with the ability to bridge technical and business conversations.
• Demonstrated critical thinking, problem-solving ability.

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related quantitative discipline.
• Familiarity with relational databases and writing complex SQL queries.
• Experience with message brokers or event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) in a financial services context.
• Experience developing a Spring Boot backend.
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and CI/CD pipeline tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.).
• Experience using JIRA or similar tools for Agile planning, sprint tracking, and delivery management.
• Prior experience in financial services, capital markets, or fintech environments.
• Proficiency with shell scripting for automation, deployment support, and operational troubleshooting.
• Working knowledge of fixed income concepts: duration, convexity, spread, option-adjusted spread (OAS), and related derivatives.

Location: McLean, VA (hybrid local)