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Principal UI Software Engineer - Fusion Apply locations London time type Full time posted on Posted 30+ Days Ago job requisition id R2394 The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure. Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions. Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions. TP ICAP's Fusion platform is a multi-asset liquidity platform that is driving the transition of TP ICAP's Global Broking business from voice to electronic protocols. The platform enables clients to smoothly access TP ICAP's liquidity pools across all products, asset classes, brands and regions. Role Overview The Principal UI Software Engineer will provide technical leadership on TP ICAP's flagship Fusion platform. This includes the Fusion Platform UI team and setting the standards and direction of other UI Engineers across several teams. They will demonstrate the benefits of approaches to development and delivery either through working as a team member or through group sessions. They should be the authority for decisions relating to standards and engineering best practices within their discipline. The Principal Engineer will be passionate about software development and keen to use their technical and mentoring skills to help their development team to be successful. They should be comfortable working in agile teams, foster transparent communication, have a commitment to quality, and a focus on getting things done. This role will primarily be hands-on with some management responsibility. Role Responsibilities Development, Architecture, SDLC and Delivery - Act as the primary technical leader and developer on the Fusion UI team, demonstrating strong technical competencies and acting as a dependable and high value contributor within the team.
- Be an expert in modern UI Engineering using React/Typescript/JavaScript and OO design principles.
- Provide technical oversight of the analysis and design for assigned projects.
- Design, develop, test and oversee production software solutions, including the development of highly complex systems, and modifications to existing systems.
- Be able to communicate the architecture and principles behind a system to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Support the use of preferred planning and prioritisation tooling (JIRA) to capture and track deliveries, identify issues and help with roadmap and iteration planning and prioritisation.
- Ensure the team engages in a well-defined SDLC that supports planning, prioritisation and delivery needs.
- Support the team through help with defining scope and guiding estimation of work to be done by leveraging previous experience.
- Be custodians for target state architecture and best practice within your respective development team and across the Fusion estate.
- Identify opportunities to evolve systems towards target state architecture and direct refactoring and prioritisation to positively influence deliveries.
Communication and Leadership - Work alongside Team Leaders, to provide technical leadership and direction for the development team.
- Participate in retrospectives and seek opportunities to drive best practice.
- Lead the software team to deliver high quality and innovative software solutions.
- Provide leadership and guidance to coach, motivate and lead team members to their optimum performance levels and career development.
Change, Risk and Issue Management - Guide and support team to identify and escalate risks as appropriate.
- Work with the Team Leaders to provide time and resource estimates, identify potential areas of risk and suggest mitigating actions.
- Share complex technical designs or issues with non-technical stakeholders and influence their decision making where necessary.
- Identify tools and methodologies to improve the effectiveness of the development process.
- Assist and facilitate prioritisation of software defects and enhancements.
- Manage risks and issues effectively with timely escalation to the project stakeholders.
Experience / Competences Essential - Demonstrable experience in HTML5, React 16/17+, Typescript4/5+, JavaScript.
- UI Libraries such as Material UI or Ant Design.
- CSS pre-processors such as SASS and LESS.
- Testing frameworks e.g. Jest.
- Build tools such as Webpack.
- Code quality and governance tools such as Sonarqube.
- Responsive design and cross-browser compatibility.
- Version control systems such as git i.e. gitlabs.
- Agile development methodologies i.e. Scrum.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Desired - NX / Turbo repo or a similar monorepo approach, Node JS.
- Figma for mock-ups and collaboration.
- Design thinking.
- Use of Storybook.
Role Band & Level: Manager, 7 Location: UK - 135 Bishopsgate - London  |
