Senior Full Stack Engineer Trading
OpenFX helps financial institutions move money across borders with real-time settlement and transparent pricing through its FX infrastructure platform.
Funding history
About OpenFX
OpenFX helps financial institutions process cross-border payments through its real-time settlement network that bypasses traditional correspondent banking. Users can execute FX transactions, settle payments within 60 minutes, and access transparent pricing across currency pairs. OpenFX enables 24/7 money movement for remittance companies, neobanks, and payment providers seeking faster, cheaper international transfers.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own the architecture for quote, pricing, trade initiation, and settlement-tracking flows. You will design state and data-fetching patterns, improve performance and reliability, extend the APIs and data models supporting your features, and instrument client experience metrics. You will mentor engineers, maintain engineering-excellence work, participate in on-call, and deliver durable fixes after incidents.
Requirements
- 5–7 years of production web application experience with frontend depth
- Trading, exchange, or brokerage experience on a live trade or order path
- TypeScript
- React
- Redux or equivalent state management
- Server-side rendering
- Code splitting
- Frontend architecture
- Asynchronous UI reliability
- Frontend test automation
- Frontend performance optimization
- CRUD API development
- REST API
- PostgreSQL
- Next.js or similar server runtime
- Object-oriented programming
- Low-level design
Responsibilities
- Own architecture for quote, pricing, trade initiation, and settlement-tracking flows
- Design frontend state, data-fetching, exception-handling, and retry patterns
- Improve frontend performance and reliability
- Build APIs and data models supporting client surfaces
- Instrument error rates, flow completion, and latency
- Partner with design, product, and backend engineers on flows and API contracts
- Drive work from technical design through adoption
- Mentor L1 and L2 engineers
- Maintain and resolve engineering-excellence and technical-debt work
- Participate in on-call and turn post-mortems into durable fixes
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package
- Equity