Senior Frontend Engineer (React), CF Benchmarks

This role is available to applicants who are willing to work from our office in London at least 2-3 days per week.

As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you will create beautiful user interfaces for our CF Benchmarks business group! CF Benchmarks indices power a wide range of financial products including derivative contracts, investment funds and structured products. We combine indexing techniques that have been tried and tested in traditional asset classes with concepts unique to cryptocurrencies, driving further adoption of the asset class!

You will work in a collaborative, highly productive, team environment and have the autonomy to own projects from ideation to production. Are you a self-motivated, team player, who is excited by the impact of new technologies? So are we!

We look for individuals who lead with integrity and are role models for executing business initiatives with the highest degree of trust. To succeed in this role, you will need excellent technical knowledge and have great communication skills to stay aligned with global teammates.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience working with React
• Solid understanding of the JavaScript language and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax and the TypeScript superset
• Excellent knowledge of modern state management libraries (Flux pattern)
• Experience with REST and Websocket based web services
• Experience building framework and platform agnostic packages
• Demonstrated ability to work on complex enterprise systems, or successfully deliver a greenfield product
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

Bonus Points

• Knowledge of XState (or similar), Web Workers, or the Actor pattern and how it can be used on the web
• Knowledge of React Native
• Experience developing applications that process large amounts of real-time data
• Knowledge or interest in learning Rust (we are big time Rustaceans!)
• Passion and knowledge about cryptocurrency
• You’re passionate about software development... it’s not just your career, it’s your hobby too
• You’re constantly striving to learn new things and improve
• You follow industry news, regularly tinker with new technologies, and read books and blogs to keep your skills current