Job Description
Who we’re looking for
We're after a Principal Front-End React Engineer who is motivated to combine the art of design with the art of programming, taking an active role defining how the application looks as well as how it works.
About Schroders
We’re a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.
We have around 5,000 people on six continents. And we’ve been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn’t change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.
Technology at Schroders
There's a huge amount of change going on at Schroders. Technology's shaping our business more and more, so there are many opportunities waiting to be grabbed. And because we're a big financial player, we can put hefty backing behind good ideas.
We're a serious business – we have enormous responsibilities to our clients and shareholders. But just because we're suited and booted, that doesn't make us stuffy; our tech teams are friendlier and more informal than you might expect.
The base
We moved into our new HQ in the City of London in 2018, located close to our clients in the heart of the UK's financial centre. We offer flexible working appropriate for a client solutions focussed role as well as a modern working environment with onsite health and wellbeing amenities.
The team
The Global Front Office Technology function supports a number of Front Office businesses in building out and maintaining an innovative set of tools in support of Alpha generation. These include solutions for complex modelling, investment strategy, investment risk, quantitative and systematic investments, data driven investment processes and some innovative aspects of trading. The team works very closely with the front office teams and often co-create the Technology platforms with an emphasis on a stable operating environment that can function at multiple speeds and levels of scale. Our primary goal is to deliver value through Technology domain expertise and robust solutions to our customers.
What You’ll Do
- Deliver a first-class technology platform to support investment decision making and quantitative research
- Produce high quality, testable software
- Build highly responsive UI components using React
- Be part of a business facing team with a high visibility and interactions with key stakeholders and end-users
- Refine the existing investment and research platform in response to business needs
- Coach and develop more junior team members, ensuring that best practices and methodologies are followed
The Knowledge, Experience And Qualifications You Need
- Strong hands-on React engineering experience using TypeScript in an enterprise environment
- Strong experience with common React packages, libraries and tools used for builds, state management, data visualisations, testing, code quality, linting etc.
- Proficient with REST, WebSocket and GraphQL APIs
- Extensive knowledge of JavaScript: primitives vs objects, scopes, closures, function binding etc.
- An understanding and knowledge of engineering best practices and design patterns
The Knowledge, Experience And Qualifications That Will Help
- Experience with AWS, AppSync and CloudFront
- Creative thinking and analytical skills
- UX and design experience to prototype and communicate ideas with business stakeholders
- General understanding of Asset Management/Financial Services industry and working in a regulated environment
- Comfortable overseeing the entire SDLC and taking autonomy of a project
What You’ll Be Like
- Passionate about technology and how it evolves
- A problem solver with a business facing personality
- Able to work under pressure, on several priorities at once
- Great at working with other people, sharing and communicating ideas
We Recognise Potential, Whoever You Are
Our purpose is to provide excellent investment performance to clients through active management. Diversity of thought facilitated by an inclusive culture will allow us to make better decisions and better achieve our purpose. This is why inclusion and diversity are a strategic priority for us and why we are an equal opportunities employer: you are welcome here regardless of your age, disability, gender identity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, socio-economic background or any other protected characteristics
About Us
We're a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.
We have around 6,000 people on six continents. And we've been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn't change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.
