Senior Solutions Architect

BGC Capital Partners is seeking a technically strong, motivated developer with 5+ years of work experience to be a part of a team building a Cross Platform HTML5/JS based Front End for the Next Generation Low Latency Trading Platform. The role entails building Highly performant UI Components and libraries to be able to run on any Browser or Chromium based Containers like Electron, OpenFin etc.

Responsibilities

Building highly performant Cross Platform Front End application using HTML5/JavaScript and React.js

Developing reusable components and front-end libraries for future use

Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code

Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers

Qualifications

Deep expertise and hands on experience with Web Applications and programming languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript and related API's.

Deep functional knowledge or hands on design experience with Web Services (REST, SOAP, etc ..) is needed to be successful in this position.

Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model

Experience in Chromium/Electron and/or OpenFin is a big +++

Thorough understanding of WebSockets

Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles

Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux) and React Hooks

Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript

Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)

Familiarity with RESTful APIs

Knowledge of modern authentication/authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token/OIDC/OAuth2.0 etc

Familiarity with code versioning tools, like GIT.

Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools

Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.

Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

A knack for benchmarking and optimization

Strong grasp of Security Principles