Client:

Elite Quant Trading Firm

Compensation:

Up to £180,000 Base + Bonus

Location:

London (Hybrid)

Overview

An elite quant trading firm is seeking a high-calibre React Developer to join a specialist data team responsible for building sophisticated, data-intensive web applications. These platforms sit at the heart of the firm’s analytics and decision-making workflows, enabling traders, quants, and researchers to interact with complex datasets in real time. The firm is known for its technology-first culture, greenfield development, and exceptional engineering standards.

The Role

As a React Developer, you will design and build complex, high-performance web applications that visualise and manipulate large-scale financial and analytical data.

Key responsibilities include:

• Designing and developing advanced React-based web applications for data exploration, analytics, and monitoring
• Building rich, interactive user interfaces capable of handling large, real-time datasets
• Collaborating closely with data engineers, quantitative researchers, and traders to deliver intuitive, high-impact tooling
• Optimising frontend performance, responsiveness, and scalability
• Contributing to UI architecture, component libraries, and frontend engineering best practices

Requirements

• Strong commercial experience as a React Developer or Frontend Software Engineer
• Proven experience building complex, data-driven web applications
• Solid understanding of modern JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and frontend architecture
• Experience optimising UI performance for large datasets or real-time applications is beneficial
• Familiarity with modern development practices (version control, testing, CI/CD)
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work closely with technical stakeholders
• Background in financial systems or data platforms is beneficial but not essential

What’s on Offer

• Ownership of greenfield, data-heavy web applications
• Market-leading compensation and bonus potential
• Access to modern frontend technologies and tooling
• Rapid career progression in a highly technical, performance-driven environment
• Strong emphasis on engineering quality, usability, and system performance
• A collaborative culture with close interaction across data, research, and trading teams

If you are a React Developer interested in building sophisticated, data-intensive web applications within an elite trading environment, please apply to be considered or email rdelaney@hunterbond.com for more information.