Web Designer / Ui Developer

Competitive Salary

Work from home flexibility

Fixed Term Contract - 6 months 

• Renewable 6 month terms upon agreement by both parties, with the potential for full time employment.
• Starting at 3 days per week, working hours negotiable

We are currently seeking a Web Designer to join our close-knit team of professionals within a rapidly expanding company. Our work is centred in the realm of low-latency trading, and we collaborate with a select group of prestigious international investment banking clients.

At Psonic, we offer three key product categories:

• Exchange Gateways: These provide low-latency access to financial markets.
• Real-time Analysis of Financial Order Flows: Our emphasis here is on rigorous risk assessment.
• FPGA Solutions: These are tailored to meet bespoke client trading related requirements

Our solutions encompass a diverse range of technologies and methodologies. In this role, your primary focus will be on designing the web user interfaces (UI) for our products, with a strong emphasis on visual design and front-end development.

• Design and Development:  Bring your creative professional design skills to bear on design for visualisation of trading system analytics, financial data and the implementation of critical command and control mechanisms.
• Work will be both green field and on existing solutions, and all our designs along with being functional, logically structured and user-friendly, must meet WCAG standards.
• Customer-Centric Approach: You'll need to grasp the needs of end customers and effectively communicate your ideas and designs to internal stakeholders.
• Integration and Collaboration: Integrating the Web UI into our products, thorough testing, and close collaboration with the rest of the team to ensure the seamless functionality of the end product.
• Teamwork: You'll work in a multidisciplinary team to collectively determine the most suitable solutions to meet our customers' requirements.
• Adaptation to New Technologies: You'll be responsible for learning and incorporating new technologies as we evolve our toolset to align with our business demands.
• Customer Support: Collaborating with customers to provide support for their systems.
• Occasional Off-Hours Support: Be prepared for occasional off-business-hours support as needed.

• 2+ years software development experience
• Experience working with JSON and CSV data formats
• Experience in visualising complex data in elegant design
• Solid working knowledge of node.js, python, HTML, CSS, PUG/JADE, mocha, WCAG, d3.js/chartjs
• Demonstrable skills in layout and representation
• University degree or similar formal education
• Dependable, conscientious, supportive
• Rights to work in country of employment

• Working knowledge of Atlassian collaboration tools - JIRA, Confluence 
• Experience in finance markets, particularly Equities and Derivatives trading, is desirable, although not a prerequisite.