COMPANY OVERVIEW

Seeing the challenges of FX today with high latency and rejection rates, fragmented marketplace and outdated technology, Spark Systems sets out to build a robust trading platform designed for low-latency access to worldwide FX liquidity with smart algorithmic execution, reducing trading costs for our clients. We are also delivering our next-generation automated data-driven decision tools to help our clients discover market opportunities with the deep tech and data analytics we have on our platform.

SENIOR WEB DEVELOPER

We are seeking a Senior Web Developer to play a lead role in the design and development of the Web UI architecture for our low latency, high-performance electronic trading system.

Responsibilities

• Successful candidates will lead the initial build out by working closely with server-side development team to build a new Web UI.

• To work closely with Sales and BAs on the functional requirements, planning and solutions.
  

Who we are seeking:

• Degree educated in an Engineering or Computer Science related subject.

• Minimum 10 years of experience working across frontend technology stack in financial trading environment.

• Strong full stack web development experience with JavaScript, HTML/CSS/SCSS, NodeJS, Angular/React/Vue, REST API, SQL databases

• Experience in developing high-performance, real-time web trading application

• Competent in low latency, performance, and scalability design

• Familiar with security frameworks such as JWT, Token authentication (OAuth)

• Knowledge of Java would be advantageous.

• Knowledge in the development lifecycle and build tools such as Git, Maven, Jira, Jenkins

• Working knowledge of Linux / UNIX, bash or Perl or scripting skills

• Independent, good work ethics, resourceful and problem solver, being able to gain the initiative, work independently and produce a high-quality solution