Fullstack Software Engineer (Finance/Trading background preferred)
Role Overview
Seeking a fullstack trading developer to work on real-time, data-intensive front-end applications used by traders, sales, and operations teams.
The role focuses on building and enhancing trading user interfaces such as blotters, dashboards, and order workflows, working closely with senior engineers in a trading environment.
The team provides seamless digital trading access and solutions to clients and covers front to back all processes along the securities trading value chain.
You will be building a new state-of-the-art trading tool serving UBS Global Wealth Management Business in Europe and APAC.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role Overview
Seeking a fullstack trading developer to work on real-time, data-intensive front-end applications used by traders, sales, and operations teams.
The role focuses on building and enhancing trading user interfaces such as blotters, dashboards, and order workflows, working closely with senior engineers in a trading environment.
The team provides seamless digital trading access and solutions to clients and covers front to back all processes along the securities trading value chain.
You will be building a new state-of-the-art trading tool serving UBS Global Wealth Management Business in Europe and APAC.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop new software products using AI-assisted and agentic engineering practices and agile methodologies.
- Leverage GitHub Copilot and AI-powered development tools to accelerate software design, implementation, testing, debugging and documentation.
- Ensure the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and robust software products that seamlessly integrate into the enterprise-wide ecosystem and access channels.
- Analyze business requirements, design and implement solutions, and develop software components to incrementally enhance the product.
- Ensure that produced code is secure, stable, scalable, and operational.
- Support the product in resolving high-priority defects and deploying fixes to production systems.
- Contribute to improving engineering productivity, quality, automation, and development lifecycle efficiency through the effective use of AI technologies.
- Collaborate effectively with other global IT teams.
Required Skills and Experience
- 3 to 5 years of experience in front-end development.
- 1+ years working on server side, in Java (17+), using functional Java techniques.
- Familiarity with Spring framework and build libraries like Gradle, Maven.
- Familiarity with enterprise architecture principles.
- Strong knowledge of JavaScript and TypeScript.
- Hands-on experience with React and modern hooks.
- Experience building data-driven UIs with tables or grids.
- Familiarity with REST APIs and asynchronous data handling.
- Solid understanding of HTML, CSS, React hook forms, Redux, State machines, React query and responsive design.
- Experience working in an agile development environment.
Nice to Have
- Exposure to real-time or streaming data (WebSockets, STOMP, SSE).
- Experience with enterprise UI libraries such as AG-Grid, Material UI, or Ant Design.
- Knowledge of financial markets or trading systems.
- Familiarity with state management libraries such as Redux, Zustand, or React Query.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
- Hands-on experience using GitHub Copilot, Copilot Chat, or equivalent AI-assisted software engineering tools in a professional development environment.
Personal Attributes
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Comfortable working on complex, data-heavy user interfaces.
- Willingness to learn trading workflows and financial domain concepts.
- Good communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to take ownership of features with guidance from leads.
About UBS
UBS is a leading and truly global wealth manager and the leading universal bank in Switzerland.
UBS provides diversified asset management solutions and focused investment banking capabilities.
Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, UBS is present in more than 50 markets around the globe.
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