Senior UI Developer

Job Purpose

At Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), we engineer technology, exchanges and clearing houses that connect companies around the world to global capital and derivative markets.  With a leading-edge approach to developing technology platforms, we have built market infrastructure in all major trading centers, offering customers the ability to manage risk and make informed decisions globally.  By leveraging our core strengths in technology, we continue to identify new ways to serve our customers and transform global markets. We're looking for motivated, results-oriented people to join our team.

As a Senior UI Developer, you will be part of a dynamic team responsible for the design, development, maintenance, and operational support of the user-facing web applications supporting the Settlements platform.

The ideal candidate must be results-oriented and self-motivated, with a passion for crafting intuitive, high-performance user interfaces. This role focuses exclusively on front-end development, so deep, hands-on expertise building modern web applications in React is imperative. The candidate will own the front-end feature implementation, partnering closely with backend developers to deliver polished, user-centric experiences.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and development of user-facing web applications supporting the Settlements platform
• Be able to lead an effort to design, architect and build new front-end components and features.
• Be able to independently handle project activities related to builds and deployments.
• Be able to create software tests, verify the functionality and quality of the software.
• Create design documentation for new software development and subsequent versions.
• Provide second-tier production support for 24/7 applications.
• Provide support for deployments during maintenance windows.
• Troubleshoot issues as they arise, in the dev, QA and production rollout cycles
• Keep test environments up to date and in working order, creating environment-specific configurations and applications as necessary
• Partner with UX designers, business analysts, and product management to translate new requirements into intuitive interfaces.
• Identify opportunities to improve and optimize applications.
• Follow team guidelines for quality and consistency within the design and development phases of the application(s).
• Follow company software development processes and standards.

Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience building modern, user-facing web applications
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with React
• Strong proficiency with modern JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS
• Experience with state management (e.g., Redux) and component-based architecture
• Experience building user-centric web applications with focus on usability, workflows, and performance
• Solid understanding of security concerns for web-based applications
• Experience consuming RESTful APIs; a working understanding of backend/server-side concepts is a plus
• Experience with writing comprehensive unit tests
• Experience with SDLC Tools like GIT, JIRA, Jenkins, gradle, or equivalent tools
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Working knowledge of software testing, building high quality software, and experience with software testing tools, regression testing etc
• Working knowledge and use of AI tools such as GitHub copilot, Cursor, or Claude is a plus
• Proven success working in a team environment