Old Mission
Senior Front End Engineer
Chicago, IL | $95K - $166K
Qualifications
- At least 4 years of experience developing and shipping web applications using modern, component-based javascript frameworks like React
- A desire to work closely with users, gather feedback, and understand their problems
- Experience shipping products from start to finish
- Great communication skills along with a team player mentality
- You keep up with modern front end best practices including trends in performance, usability, and security
- You write high quality, well tested code
- Experience with automated testing and building
- Experience with Websockets & Protocol Buffers
- Experience with Linux, Postgres
- Experience building multi-window frontend applications, web workers, OpenGL, Canvas API
Responsibilities
- As a senior frontend 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
- Articulate and contributing 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 & train other developers on coding standards and design philosophy
- Design internal tools to increase efficiency of data mining, risk management, and more
- 201-500 employees
- Hospitality, Food & Beverage, Tourism, Agriculture, Catering
- Privately Held
- Chicago, Illinois
- Company Specialties:
Automated Trading, Arbitrage, and Software Development
Company information
Old Mission is a global, multi-asset market maker. We specialize in dynamically valuing individual securities and complicated derivatives at the speed of modern markets. We price thousands of financial instruments globally and have traded trillions of dollars of securities using our proprietary systems and models, both on and off exchange. Our market making platform enables us to work with the world’s largest exchanges, brokers, and institutional investors as a trusted partner, assisting them in transferring risk, often at prices that are much tighter than our competition.
