Staff Frontend Engineer
Trading2122 months ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set frontend architecture and engineering direction across React, React Native, and the shared monorepo.
- Own cross-team platform capabilities, shared libraries, design-system foundations, developer tooling, and developer experience.
- Lead decisions involving application boundaries, abstractions, state and data flow, performance, testing, and migration strategy.
- Diagnose and resolve systemic rendering, bundle, runtime, and release-quality problems.
- Remain hands-on with implementation, prototyping, and technical investigation when appropriate.
- Partner with product, backend engineering, and QA on cross-team risks and decisions.
- Mentor senior engineers and improve code review quality and repeatable frontend judgment.
- Balance standardization with team autonomy and avoid unnecessarily costly platform work.
Requirements
- Demonstrated architectural or platform impact across multiple frontend teams.
- Deep ownership of complex production systems built with React or React Native and TypeScript.
- Strong judgment in application boundaries, shared libraries, state management, performance, and migration design.
- Track record of improving developer effectiveness, reliability, or product quality through durable mechanisms.
- Practical experience diagnosing performance and correctness issues across web or mobile systems.
- Ability to influence technical direction through evidence, clarity, and trusted execution.
- Clear communication and strong engineering and product judgment.
- The role assesses Staff scope through ownership, judgment, and sustained organizational impact rather than years of experience or familiarity with every listed technology.
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About Trading212
Trading 212 builds a retail investing and trading platform for individuals, offering commission-free stocks and ETFs, ISAs and SIPPs in the UK, and CFDs across forex, commodities and indices. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in London, it is privately held and operates in the UK, Europe and Australia under FCA, CySEC, BaFin and ASIC oversight.