Senior Frontend (React) Engineer - Financial Platforms

About the role

Julius Baer is seeking an experienced Senior Frontend Engineer to join its team and help shape the frontend architecture of mission-critical financial platforms. The engineer will work on the core platform and also contribute to a new channel that brings investment capabilities directly to external clients through integration with the e-banking platform. This is a 12-month contract role with an external agency payroll provider.

Key responsibilities

• Take ownership of complex frontend solutions, ensuring scalability, performance, security and long-term maintainability.
• Partner with UX/UI designers and business stakeholders to turn complex requirements into intuitive, high-quality user experiences.
• Deliver production-grade React and TypeScript code for complex financial applications.
• Address advanced challenges such as state management, performance optimization and integration with distributed backend systems.
• Refactor and modernize existing codebases where required.
• Support troubleshooting and root-cause analysis in development and production.
• Contribute actively in an agile, fast-paced and collaborative environment.

Required profile

• Extensive hands-on experience in JavaScript and TypeScript, with a strong focus on React at enterprise scale.
• Deep understanding of modern frontend ecosystems, tools and frameworks (React, Node.js, build tooling).
• Experience with design systems and large, shared component libraries.
• Solid understanding of Unix/Linux environments and bash scripting.
• Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries is a plus.
• Excellent analytical, decision-making and problem-solving skills; strong communication and the ability to influence technical direction.
• Proven ability to thrive in agile, cross-functional teams.

Required skills

• Cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure.
• Microservices architecture and containerization (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes).
• CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• API security, OAuth2 and related standards.