Schonfeld

Senior Software Engineer, UI/UX

Schonfeld
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3 months ago

Base Salary

$200k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Evolve the internal UI platform, shared components, development tools, and front-end architecture supporting more than 100 business applications.
  • Partner with product owners, product managers, business stakeholders, and users to define features, user journeys, screens, wireframes, prototypes, and shipped application UI.
  • Develop full-stack solutions spanning web front-end development, backend integration, API design, performance optimization, and system observability.
  • Lead applications through architecture, technology selection, implementation, deployment, scalability, and production reliability.
  • Build and maintain advanced data grids and charting experiences for real-time or high-volume datasets.
  • Write unit and end-to-end tests and improve code quality, development lifecycles, technical standards, and engineering best practices.
  • Mentor junior engineers and help teams adopt modern React patterns and AI-enabled, agentic software development workflows.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional UI engineering experience, including at least 2 years leading or designing front-end architectures.
  • Advanced React and TypeScript expertise, including large-scale component-system architecture, performance optimization, technical standards, and mentoring.
  • Strong UI/UX design collaboration experience and ability to translate business requirements into user stories, journeys, and application designs.
  • Experience partnering with product management across the lifecycle from concept and requirements through design iteration and delivery.
  • Hands-on experience using AI tools such as Codex, Claude, and Copilot throughout the development lifecycle, including building and operating agents and skills.
  • Familiarity with Redux, Zustand, and RxJS.
  • Experience with advanced data grid and charting tools for real-time or high-volume datasets.
  • Proficiency with unit and end-to-end testing frameworks such as RTL, Mocha, Jest, Cypress, and Playwright.
  • Preferred experience building internal trading, analytics, or compliance tools in finance or fintech.
  • Preferred experience with AWS EC2, Kubernetes-driven deployments, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Preferred experience with high-throughput event-driven data pipelines using Apache Kafka or Apache Spark.
  • Preferred experience with design systems, React-based micro-frontends, and modular UI architectures.
  • Preferred proficiency in one or more of Go, Python, Java, or Rust.
  • Strong communication, engineering judgment, and ability to develop technical plans and UX artifacts with stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Learning and educational offerings, opportunities to make an impact, internal networks, external partnerships, and service initiatives promoting inclusion and purpose.
  • Competitive benefits package and potential eligibility for performance-based compensation in addition to base pay.
Schonfeld

About Schonfeld

1,001-5,000 employees

Schonfeld is a privately held, multi-manager hedge fund that allocates capital to internal and external portfolio managers across quantitative, fundamental equity, tactical trading, and discretionary macro/fixed-income strategies. The firm manages money for institutional and other sophisticated investors and supports teams with proprietary technology, infrastructure, and risk analytics. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in New York, it operates globally with an investing footprint spanning five continents.

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