Full-Time · Quantitative Development
Senior Software Engineer, UI/UX
Schonfeld · New York, New York, United States · $200,000 · Posted Feb 25, 2026
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.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience in UI engineering, with at least 2 years in a role leading or designing front-end architectures
- Advanced React/TypeScript expertise — proven ability to architect large-scale, performant component systems, drive front-end technical standards, and mentor teams on modern React patterns (hooks, composition, performance optimization
- Strong background in UI/UX design collaboration — partnering directly with users and stakeholders to iterate on application design, translating business requirements into user stories and journeys, and shaping world-class screens that drive engagement and adoption
- Experience partnering closely with product management to translate vision and business requirements into shipped application UI — working across the product development lifecycle from concept and requirements to design iteration and delivery
- Comprehensive, hands-on experience using AI throughout the development lifecycle (e.g. Codex, Claude, Copilot) — required fluency in leveraging AI to decompose and solve engineering problems, build and operate agents and skills to scale delivery, and evolve SDLC practices around agentic workflows
- Strong familiarity with common enterprise JavaScript frameworks, such as Redux, Zustand, RxJS
- Hands-on experience with advanced data grid and charting tools integrated with real-time or high-volume datasets
- Proficiency in writing unit tests and E2E tests utilizing popular frameworks like RTL, Mocha, Jest, Cypress, Playwright
- Experience leading the technical lifecycle of complex UI applications, from architecture and technology selection through implementation, deployment, scalability, and production reliability.
- Experience identifying opportunities to incorporate AI capabilities into user feature or development workflows