Lead UI Developer

Financial Services company
Helsinki, Finland
Roles:
Frontend
Must-have skills:
Qt
One of skills:
C#C++Java
Considering candidates from:
Europe
Work arrangement: Onsite
Industry: Financial Services
Language: English, Finnish
Level: Senior or lead
Required experience: 5+ years
Relocation: Not paid
Visa support: Not provided
Size: 11 - 50 employees

Lead UI Developer

Financial Services company
Helsinki, Finland
Our client is a boutique investment management and advisory firm based in London (with an additional presence in Helsinki) specializing in fixed income and relative value strategies. It focuses on market-neutral and data-driven approaches to generate returns independent of broad market movements.
Now the company is looking for a Senior/Lead UI Developer to join them onsite and work on developing a trader toolbox. 

Tasks:
  • Develop and expand an internal UI enabling traders to create and visualize metrics and backtest ideas over historical data
  • Work directly with internal end-users, the quant team, and the trading team to build a flexible tool for analyzing market data and metrics
  • Rapidly create new features through fast iteration and prototyping
  • Participate in architectural discussions to ensure highly scalable and performant systems
  • Support production systems and contribute to weekly releases as part of the technology team
Must-have:
  • Experience building UIs for trading analytics or related applications 
  • Experience with MS Windows UI frameworks (e.g., Win32, WinForms, WPF, Qt)
  • Experience in C#, or a strong background in Java or C++
  • Ability to understand the business context and develop solutions supporting trading functions
  • Hands-on, pragmatic approach to software development and good software development practices
  • Strong background in computer science
Nice-to-have:
  • Experience with web UI frameworks (e.g., Blazor Hybrid, Blazor)
  • Previous exposure to fixed-income markets (bonds, swaps, interest rate futures, FX)
  • Use of Python for quantitative finance tasks or interop with C#
  • Experience using or familiarity with tools such as Quantower, NinjaTrader, Motivewave, Tradovate, Wavebasis, MetaTrader, Webull, or LSEG Workspace 
Benefits and conditions:
  • Trial period: 6 months
  • Work in a small, agile, and globally distributed technology team (London, Helsinki, Singapore)
  • Opportunity to be the first developer hire in the Finnish office and global senior UI lead
  • 25 days holiday per year
  • all the needed insurances
  • gym, mobile phone cover
Interview process:
  1. Intro call with Toughbyte
  2. Introductory call with the CTO
  3. Technical interview with test task 
  4. Meeting in the office