Vice President Full Stack Developer

About the role

At Barclays, our vision is to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. This role offers significant exposure, end-to-end ownership, and the chance to make a measurable impact from day one.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver high-performance solutions that directly support revenue generation, drive client growth, and influence business outcomes.
• Work closely with front-office stakeholders to design and deliver scalable, resilient, and low-latency solutions that support high-volume, real-time trading workflows and business-critical operations.
• Champion engineering excellence through automation, implementing comprehensive test strategies, CI/CD best practices, and quality engineering principles to enable the rapid, reliable, and frequent delivery of high-quality features.

Requirements

• Expertise in Angular, TypeScript, and modern web technologies, with a proven ability to build highly responsive, scalable, and intuitive front-office applications that deliver exceptional user experiences in demanding trading environments.
• Ample full-stack development experience with Java and the Spring ecosystem, designing and delivering scalable, resilient, and low-latency solutions that support high-volume, real-time trading workflows and business-critical operations.
• Deep expertise in UI performance engineering, including advanced state management, real-time data streaming, rendering optimization, and the ability to process, visualize, and manage hundreds of thousands of transactions with minimal latency and maximum reliability.
• Considerable understanding of real-time messaging and event-driven architectures, including technologies such as WebSocket, Kafka, and Solace, with hands-on experience building highly responsive applications that consume, process, and visualize live market data.
• Passion for engineering excellence and automation, driving quality through comprehensive test automation, CI/CD best practices, and modern software engineering principles to enable the rapid, reliable, and continuous delivery of high-quality products and features.

Qualifications

• Experience leveraging AI-assisted software development tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, or similar technologies to enhance engineering productivity, accelerate delivery cycles, improve code quality, and streamline testing, documentation, and development workflows.
• Hands-on experience with AG Grid or comparable enterprise-grade data grid frameworks, including advanced customization, management of large-scale datasets, real-time market data visualization, and performance optimization in high-volume, low-latency environments.
• Familiarity with electronic trading platforms and capital markets, with an understanding of equities, derivatives, and related trading workflows. Familiarity with the needs of Traders, Sales, Client Service, and Run-the-Bank (RTB) teams operating in fast-paced front-office environments is highly desirable.
• Proven ability to partner closely with Traders, Sales, Client Service, Product, and Engineering stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into intuitive, highly tailored user experiences, delivering innovative solutions at pace while maintaining a considerable focus on usability and performance.

Skills

• Expertise in Angular, TypeScript, and modern web technologies.
• Full-stack development experience with Java and the Spring ecosystem.
• Deep expertise in UI performance engineering.
• Understanding of real-time messaging and event-driven architectures.
• Leveraging AI-assisted software development tools.
• Hands-on experience with AG Grid or comparable enterprise-grade data grid frameworks.
• Familiarity with electronic trading platforms and capital markets.
• Proven ability to partner with stakeholders.

Benefits

This role is located in our Whippany, NJ office. Minimum Salary: $170,000 Maximum Salary: $230,000. Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances. This position is eligible for an incentive award.

Pay

Minimum Salary: $170,000 Maximum Salary: $230,000

Schedule

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