Director, UI Engineering Lead - Equities Trading Technology
At a glance
Director-level Engineering Leadership role at Jefferies. New York · full-time · $250,000–$300,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Set frontend architecture and deliver equities trading tools for basket orders, order management and live monitoring
- Turn trader and product-owner workflows into clear interfaces, coordinating directly with backend engineers
- Create shared UI components, interaction patterns and services that teams can reuse across applications
- Build responsive interfaces for live data, large grids and clear connection and application states
- Set frontend standards, stay involved in coding and troubleshooting, and mentor engineers across applications and regions
What you bring
- You have extensive experience shipping production frontend applications and owning their architecture and technical delivery
- You bring deep TypeScript, JavaScript, React, HTML and CSS expertise, including component design and state management
- You have built complex interfaces for live, data-heavy workflows and understand browser performance and frontend/backend integration
- You have experience with streaming APIs, automated tests, CI/CD and production diagnostics
- You can lead hands-on engineering and turn unclear stakeholder needs into practical solutions
Who this fits
This director-level role suits a hands-on technical leader who wants to shape trading interfaces while continuing to code, review designs and troubleshoot. You’ll also guide engineers and modernize existing interfaces incrementally while keeping business operations running. The position is based in New York.
From the employer
We are seeking a hands-on UI Engineering Lead to shape and deliver the next generation of equities trading applications. This role combines frontend architecture, development, and technical leadership to create intuitive, high-performance trading workflows and a reusable UI platform supporting Equities Modernization.
Key Responsibilities
- Own UI architecture and delivery for modern trading applications, including basket trading, order management, and real-time monitoring.
- Partner directly with traders, product owners, and backend engineers to translate complex workflows into intuitive user experiences.
- Build a shared foundation of reusable components, interaction patterns, and application services that reduces duplication across teams.
- Design responsive, data-intensive interfaces with real-time updates, high-volume grids, and clear handling of connection and application state.
- Establish engineering standards for frontend performance, automated testing, accessibility, security, and production observability.
- Remain hands-on through coding, design reviews, troubleshooting, and delivery of critical capabilities.
- Mentor engineers and drive consistent engineering practices across applications and regions.
- Modernize legacy interfaces incrementally while maintaining business continuity.
Required Qualifications
- Extensive experience delivering production frontend applications, with ownership of architecture and technical delivery.
- Deep expertise in TypeScript, JavaScript, React, HTML, and CSS, including component design and state management.
- Proven experience building complex, real-time, data-intensive user interfaces.
- Strong understanding of browser performance, rendering behavior, asynchronous processing, and frontend/backend integration.
- Experience with streaming APIs, automated testing, CI/CD, and production diagnostics.
- Ability to work directly with business stakeholders and turn ambiguous requirements into practical solutions.
- Demonstrated technical leadership with a strong commitment to hands-on engineering.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in equities, electronic trading, OMS/EMS, or other front-office platforms.
- Familiarity with high-performance data grids, desktop interoperability, Deephaven and multi-window trading workflows.
- Experience building shared UI platforms or design systems adopted across multiple teams.
- Familiarity with Java or C++ backend environments and AI-assisted development practices.
Primary Location Full Time Salary Range of $250,000 - $300,000.
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