Job description
The Company
Capital Markets Gateway LLC (CMG) is a financial technology firm, uniquely focused on the equity capital markets (ECM), connecting investors and underwriters via a neutral platform. CMG delivers integrated ECM data and analytics, unrivalled transparency into deal flow, and workflow efficiencies for an otherwise fragmented and inefficient process. Providing a digital system of record for firm-wide deal activity, CMG helps clients make more timely, better-informed decisions. Launched in 2017 by a team of ECM practitioners, CMG has completed two successful fundraising rounds and is backed by a group of the world’s most prestigious financial institutions. The CMG platform is currently relied upon by nearly 150 buy-side firms representing $40 trillion in AUM and 20 global investment banks. For more information, please visit www.cmgx.io.
The Role
We’re looking for a Front-End Engineer to join our team to help build efficient, elegant, and intuitive user interfaces for enterprise solutions in the financial industry.As a Front-End Engineer, you will play a critical role in crafting user-centric, performant, and scalable interfaces that power our enterprise financial solutions. You will collaborate closely with product managers and back-end engineers to bring intuitive and responsive user experiences to life, translating complex business requirements into clean, maintainable code. You’ll contribute to front-end architecture decisions, help establish best practices in UI development, and champion design consistency and accessibility. Your work will directly influence the usability and visual polish of our products, ensuring high-quality, high-impact user experiences with every release.
Our Engineering Team
The CMG engineering team consists of domain experts who work collaboratively within a culture of cross-domain knowledge sharing. We value engineers who are passionate about modern technologies and best practices.Our engineers are willing to challenge the status quo and are constantly seeking improvement and efficiency in our code-base and platform. CMG engineers are empowered to explore solutions and bring recommendations to the table. We are in a period of making impactful engineering decisions. As part of our process, we believe in taking the time for research and prototyping - this is critical in making the right decisions.Given the experience of our team, we have naturally adopted best practices from local development, through code review and into production rollouts. Besides the standard pull requests, test automation, code coverage tracking, containerization, and one-click deployments we are constantly reviewing these foundational components to develop new best practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain complex user interfaces for web applications using React.
- Collaborate with product teams to translate UI/UX wireframes and mockups into functional, high-quality code.
- Collaborating with back end engineers and engineering managers to ensure that the overall product meets all requirements and specifications.
- Write clean, maintainable, well-tested, and well-documented code while participating in regular code reviews and team discussions.
- Contribute to overall quality through E2E Tests.
- Stay current with emerging front-end technologies and trends, continuously improving development practices and tooling.
What We’re Looking For
- English level - C1 or C2
- React: 3+ years
- Software engineering: 5+ Years
- JavaScript state management (i.e. redux, mobx, context, unidirectional data flow)
- JavaScript build tools (i.e. CRA, webpack, gulp)
- Modern CSS (i.e. flexbox, css-in-js, preprocessors)
- Unit and component testing (i.e. jest, mocha, jasmine, testing library)
- E2E testing (i.e. playwright, cypress, testcafe, selenium, protractor)
- Monorepo management tools (ie. NX, yarn workspaces)
- Fintech experience is a plus
- .NET is a plus
Our Tech Stack
- React - We’re all in on React – we maintain multiple single-page React apps
- TypeScript – 99% of our codebase is TypeScript
- GraphQL - Our standard for API communication is GraphQL served by our DotNet Back-End
- NX monorepo to share components and tools between our applications with ease
- Jest/Testing Library - Unit tests are delivered within every commit
- Material UI - CMG’s design system is built on a tried and true component library
- Styled components - When engineers need to write custom styles, we opt for CSS-in-JS
- Docker with custom local docker tooling to simplify development, Automatic preview environments created for every PR
- Generated OpenAPI document spec and Protos to document our APIs
- Storybook and Figma to design, prototype, and document our UI components
- Playwright and own data-seeding framework for E2E testing
Our Values
- We innovate with purpose
- We focus on outcomes vs. output
- We believe diverse and inclusive teams fuel innovation
- We are humble yet candid
- We do right by the customer
What We Offer
- 2 year+ contract
- 15 business days of vacation
- Tech courses and conferences
- Top-of-the-line MacBook
- Fully remote working environment
- Flexible working hours
At CMG, we accept nothing less than equity, inclusion and belonging for all. We are deeply committed to listening, learning and constantly improving for the betterment of our teams, clients and communities. CMG is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
