What are the responsibilities and job description for the Front End Software Engineer position at Old Mission?
Old Mission is a global proprietary trading firm that leverages state-of-the-art technology and research to identify and execute profitable trading strategies across multiple asset classes around the world. Our offices in Chicago, New York, and London are all composed of naturally-curious individuals who thrive in a team environment and constantly strive for improvement.
Old Mission does not seek capital from outside investors, allowing us the flexibility to aggressively invest in our team members and keep them engaged in the firm's growth.
About the Position
As a Front End Engineer at Old Mission, you will help solve large scale, complex technical challenges and will build cutting edge, performant, and scalable frontend systems to help make a best-in-class trading experience for our end users. You'll work with traders, quantitative researchers, and other developers to build new systems and help improve existing ones, as well as work with our risk and security teams to ensure what you build is safe and trustworthy - all while not compromising on user experience.
Responsibilities
- Articulate and contribute towards a long term technical direction for maintaining and scaling our frontend systems
- Build out performant & intuitive trading interfaces using modern web tools like Typescript, React, Redux, Jest, and Webpack
- Mentor and train other developers on coding standards and design philosophy
- Design internal tools to increase efficiency of data mining, risk management, and more
Required Skills
Nice to haves
Benefits and Perks
In accordance with Illinois' Pay Transparency Law, the anticipated base salary range for this role is $125,000 to $225,000. Base salary does not include other forms of compensation or benefits offered to employees.
Old Mission is not accepting unsolicited resumes from any staffing / search firms. All resumes submitted by staffing / search firms to any employee at Old Mission via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid signed search agreement will be deemed the sole property of Old Mission, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Old Mission.
Salary : $125,000 - $225,000
