Job Title Lead Front End Engineer

Location London

Corporate Title Vice President

You will play a key role in the transformation of Rates and Credit Fixed Income technology landscape. As part of our multi-year platform modernisation project, you will be responsible for building a suite of new, real-time, high-performance React applications supporting various trading workflows.

You will be involved in architecting solutions across the stack, encouraging best practices and working closely with Business stakeholders to build a maintainable, operationally efficient and scalable platform to last the next decade.

What we’ll offer you

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect:

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them
• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Develop a suite of modern, real-time, high-performance React applications to support core rates and credit trading workflows
• Collaborate with backend engineers to design and deliver end-to-end solutions. Engage directly with business stakeholders to gather requirements, understand workflows and rapidly deliver impactful features that improve business efficiency
• Promote best practices in front-end architecture, testing, CI/CD and code quality. Participate in code reviews to ensure high engineering standards across the team
• Play an important role in the modernization of the fixed income tech stack by influencing platform direction, and driving adoption of modern tooling and frameworks.

Your skills and experience

• Expertise in React and TypeScript – deep expertise in building complex, high-performance applications using modern front-end tooling (e.g. vite, nx, playwright)
• Strong System Architecture Fundamentals – proven ability to design scalable, maintainable, and modular front-end architectures, ensuring clean separation of concerns, optimal performance, and long-term platform sustainability
• Experience with Real-Time, Data-Driven applications – hands-on experience delivering low-latency, event-driven UIs that handle large, rapidly changing data sets, leveraging technologies such as WebSockets, SSE and Rx
• Collaboration Across the Stack – ability to work closely with backend engineers and product stakeholders to deliver cohesive, end-to-end solutions

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs
• We value diversity and as an equal opportunities’ employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g. screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards)

About us

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.

Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to have been named The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025 for six consecutive years. Additionally, we have been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers 2024 for our work supporting LGBTQ+ inclusion.

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.