Schonfeld is hiring: Senior Software Engineer, UI/UX in New York

Overview

We’re looking for a Senior 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 thinker – helping to evolve our UI infrastructure that powers 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.

Responsibilities

• 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. You’ll work closely with product teams or 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 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.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in UI engineering, with at least 2 years in a role leading or designing front-end architectures
• Expertise in React, TypeScript, HTML, CSS and modern web development toolkits
• Experience working with REST APIs, WebSockets, and event-driven architectures
• Hands-on experience with advanced data grid and charting tools integrated with real-time or high-volume datasets
• 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 thoughtful approach to problem-solving; Ability to break down complex issues methodically
• A track record of independent executions, able to deliver UI projects or large features in collaboration with cross-functional teams with minimal guidance
• Experience driving the full lifecycle of complex UI applications, from roadmap shaping to delivering scalable solutions
• Cloud operation skills in system monitoring and configuration management. Proven experience in diagnosing production issues and ensuring system reliability in cloud environments
• 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
• A strong voice for engineering excellence: you advocate for best practices, challenge outdated patterns, and help elevate our standards through thoughtful critique in team discussions
• Excellent communication skills: Partner closely with business stakeholders to turn high-level concepts into technical plans, UX wireframes, or prototypes

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

The firm’s ethos is embedded in our people. “Talent is our strategy” is our mantra and drives how we approach all initiatives at the firm. We believe our success is because of our people, so putting our talent above all else is our top priority.

Schonfeld strives to create an environment where our people can thrive. We foster a teamwork-oriented, collaborative environment where ideas at any level are encouraged and shared. The development and advancement of our talent is honed through interactions with each other, learning and educational offerings, and through opportunities to make impactful contributions.

At Schonfeld, we strive to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout all of our employees with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the forefront of this mission. As a firm we are committed to creating a hiring process which is not only fair, but also welcoming and supportive. On a daily basis, our employees welcome diversity across identity, thought, people and views which serves as the foundation of our culture and success. You can learn more about our DEI initiatives here - Belonging @ Schonfeld.

Compensation and application

The base pay for this role is expected to be between $200,000 and $250,000. This role may also be eligible for other forms of compensation such as a performance bonus and a competitive benefits package. Actual compensation will be determined based on skills, qualifications, and experience.

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