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Software Engineer - UI/UX Job at Schonfeld in New York

Schonfeld, New York, NY, United States, 10261

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The Role

We’re looking for a UI Engineer to join our team and play a critical role in building and shaping the firm’s internal UI platform. This is a high-impact, hands-on engineering position where you’ll contribute not just as a front-end specialist, but also as a platform strategist – helping to evolve our UI infrastructure powering 100+ business applications across the firm. You’ll work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where product requirements evolve, and business stakeholders are deeply engaged. Your engineering skills, UX sensibility, and product mindset will all be utilized as you craft industry-leading UI platform and ecosystems.

The Role

We’re looking for a UI Engineer to join our team and play a critical role in building and shaping the firm’s internal UI platform. This is a high-impact, hands-on engineering position where you’ll contribute not just as a front-end specialist, but also as a platform strategist – helping to evolve our UI infrastructure powering 100+ business applications across the firm. You’ll work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where product requirements evolve, and business stakeholders are deeply engaged. Your engineering skills, UX sensibility, and product mindset will all be utilized as you craft industry-leading UI platform and ecosystems.

What You’ll Do

You’ll be a key contributor to our UI platform and a technical partner to product owners building on top of it. You’ll help evolve our technical stack and development tools by contributing to architectural improvements, shared components, and implementation consistency across cross-functional teams. At the same time, you’ll work closely with product teams and business stakeholders, helping shape feature definitions, and building high-impact UI solutions directly into their applications.

Your development responsibilities will span full-stack, including web front-end, backend integration, API design, performance optimization, and system observability.

You’ll also be involved in the team’s code quality and best practices, mentor junior engineers, identify gaps in development lifecycles, and continuously improve both the core platform and how developers build with it.

What You’ll Bring

What you need:

  • 3-5 years of professional experience in front-end engineering
  • Expertise in React, TypeScript, HTML, CSS and modern web development toolkits
  • Experience working with REST APIs, WebSockets, and event-driven architectures
  • Strong familiarity with common enterprise JavaScript frameworks, such as Redux, Zustand, RxJS, D3, AgGrid or Highcharts
  • Experience working with both relational (Postgres, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB)
  • Expertise with low-latency, distributed caches such as Redis or Memcached
  • Proficiency in writing unit tests and E2E tests utilizing popular frameworks like RTL, Mocha, Jest, Cypress, Playwright
  • A track record of developing data-intensive, scalable applications with strong usability and performance
  • A thoughtful approach to problem-solving; Ability to break down complex issues methodically

We’d Love If You Had

  • Experience in building internal tools for trading, analytics, or compliance in Finance or Fintech businesses
  • Experience with AWS cloud services (EC2), Kubernetes-driven deployments, and modern CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience designing and operating high-throughput, event-driven data pipelines on Apache Kafka or Apache Spark
  • Experience implementing or maintaining design systems
  • Familiarity with React-based micro-frontend architectures and patterns for building modular UI
  • Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Go, Python, Java, Rust
  • Excellent communication skills; Able to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders

Who We Are

Schonfeld Strategic Advisors is a global multi-strategy, multi-manager investment platform that harnesses the transformative power of people to perform in all market environments. Our dynamic culture inspires better outcomes for our team, our investors, and our partners. We aim to consistently deliver risk-adjusted returns, with people driving performance.

We specialize in four core strategies: Quantitative Trading, Fundamental Equity, Tactical Trading, and Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income. We capitalize on inefficiencies and opportunities within the markets, drawing from a significant investment in proprietary technology, infrastructure, and risk analytics.

We invest through internal portfolio managers and external partner funds, pursuing alignment among investors, investment professionals, and the firm. Our footprint spans 7 countries and 19 offices.

Our Culture

Talent is our strategy. We believe our success is because of our people, so putting our talent above all else is our top priority. We are teamwork-oriented, and collaborative, and encourage ideas—at all levels—to be shared. As an organization committed to investing in our people, we provide learning & educational offerings and opportunities to make an impact.

We foster a sense of belonging among all of our employees with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the forefront of this mission. Our employees value diversity across identity, thought, people, and perspective which serves as the foundation of our culture. As a firm, we are committed to creating a hiring process that is fair, welcoming, and supportive.

The base pay for this role is expected to be between $185,000 and $205,000. The expected base pay range is based on information at the time this post was generated. This role may also be eligible for other forms of compensation such as a performance bonus and a competitive benefits package. Actual compensation for the successful candidate will be determined based on a variety of factors such as skills, qualifications, and experience.

Seniority level

  • Seniority level

    Mid-Senior level

Employment type

  • Employment type

    Full-time

Job function

  • Job function

    Engineering and Information Technology

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