As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly motivated Lead UI Engineer with an interest in quantitative finance to join the SS&C Everywhere Cloud Development team. This individual will help design and implement a set of new web UIs using React and lead the UI team in establishing efficient, scalable front-end development practices. The UIs are part of a wider initiative to develop an innovative cloud native platform providing financial data, analytics, and AI solutions to banks, asset managers, insurance companies and hedge funds.

Primary Responsibilities

• Hands-on design, coding, testing, and technical leadership in an agile and continuous delivery process
• Guide and mentor a team of UI engineers, fostering collaboration and setting standards for high-quality front-end development
• Lead the integration of Figma into the design-to-development workflow, enabling better collaboration between designers and engineers
• Drive adoption of Storybook for component development and documentation
• Curate and evolve a portable, shared UI component library to be used across multiple teams and applications
• Develop on the cloud using tools such as JIRA, GitLab, Artifactory, and Docker
• Write well-structured code following established coding standards
• Develop software for both cloud and on-premise deployments with an understanding of design for scalability, performance, and reliability

Qualifications

• Experience with React/Redux
• Experience with JavaScript and/or TypeScript
• Experience with CSS
• Experience building and maintaining shared component libraries
• Familiarity with design systems and design tooling such as Figma
• Experience with Storybook or similar component documentation tools
• Knowledge of web application unit testing and end-to-end testing
• Knowledge of web sockets a plus

Professional Expectations

• Comfortable collaborating with colleagues both in person and remotely
• Proven leadership, analytical, and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to drive front-end best practices and technical excellence
• Willingness to learn new and emerging technologies
• Flexibility and adaptability in approach to work with the ability to work well on both independent and team projects
• Ability to develop relationships with internal and external parties
• Take personal ownership by going beyond assigned tasks to improve projects, identifying issues, proposing solutions, and working to continually improve client satisfaction

Education

• Undergraduate degree in computer science or equivalent work experience

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SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.