Senior Web UI Developer (React), Mexico City

About the Position

Lab49 is an award-winning specialist consultancy that creates bespoke technology in partnership with the most important companies in finance. We are seeking a Senior Web UI Developer (React) to join our team in Mexico City. This role involves working closely with our clients in the high-frequency trading space to develop custom trading UIs and manage the ecosystem of UI products in our client's tech environment.

Responsibilities

• Act as a hands-on engineer and architect to support work across the UI & Mobile Engineering Practice.
• Lead and participate in projects, serving as a role model for project teams.
• Develop strong relationships with clients as a strategic partner and technical advisor.
• Partner with the business development team to create compelling pitches.
• Provide thought leadership for the UI & Mobile Engineering Practice.
• Help drive the ongoing effort to find, attract, interview, and hire top software engineering talent.
• People Management, including coaching, mentoring, and performance management of employees may be included in this role.
• Office presence in central Mexico City (M. Juarez) 1 day a week (or more, if required).

Requirements

• 7+ years of commercial-grade web/front-end development experience.
• Strong experience in modern JavaScript, ideally TypeScript, building web applications with React.
• Solid skills interacting with multiple types of API formats, preferably REST and GraphQL, but additional skills with Websockets would be desired.
• Contribute to the design process from gathering requirements, planning, and ideating from the start of a project.
• Demonstrate an understanding of user behavior and how to tailor web experiences to meet the needs of users.
• Work with designers and other partners to collaborate on design & wireframing and take responsibility for delivering high-quality implementations.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Demonstrable team leadership experience.
• Knowledge of, and strong demonstrated interest in, global financial markets and financial products is a strong plus.
• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, or related work experience.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent command of written and spoken English.

Nice to Have

• Experience working with common financial products such as Bloomberg, Symphony, or other tools commonly used in a finance context such as Excel, Salesforce, Databricks, and others.
• Experience in capital markets, specifically buy-side investment management.

We Offer

• Opportunity to work with an established partner for most financial institutions on Wall Street.
• Exposure to a variety of environments, business domains, technologies, and people.
• Broad and intense exposure to a variety of challenges accelerates your career growth.
• Lab49’s structure is designed to enable you to learn and grow as an engineer and consultant.

About the Company

Lab49 is an award-winning specialist consultancy that creates bespoke technology in partnership with the most important companies in finance. We were founded in 2002 to bring Silicon Valley solutions to Wall Street’s door. Since then, we have worked on successive waves of technological change, including distributed computing, high-speed automation, enterprise UX and digital distribution (for which Lab49 was among the first significant practices established on Wall Street), DevOps, cloud, and data science.

Today, we are an established partner in financial markets, having delivered hundreds of projects for clients including all the world’s tier-one investment banks and many of the largest buy-side firms globally.

Being part of Lab49 means bringing your drive and creativity into an environment where your contributions will make an immediate impact. Engineers work in cross-functional teams, consulting directly with our clients, shaping not only technical solutions to business problems but delivering them into production.