Senior Software Engineer (React)
Location: Gurgaon / New Delhi (Fully Remote) NO US-BASED CANDIDATES
Role Overview
Financial Technology Partners (FT Partners) is looking for a skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our frontend team. You’ll work alongside our lead frontend engineer to enhance our internal web application, which serves as a comprehensive CRM, project management tool, and suite of operational software. This role requires solid expertise in TypeScript, React, HTML, and CSS, as well as baseline product and design sense to develop features from wireframes and business requirements. Code quality is very important; we emphasize efficient, consistent, and highly readable code as being as important as the functionality. We aim to create elegant, well-structured solutions, leveraging industry best practices to keep the codebase stable, flexible and intuitive.
About FT Partners Engineering
At FT Partners, our engineering team’s mission is to build and refine the web-based operating system that powers our firm. Our stack is Python / PostgreSQL / Django / DRF / React. Given our emphasis on research, data, and technology, we play a crucial role in supporting high-profile investment banking deals. While expectations placed on the engineering team are high, we are also given the autonomy to innovate and tackle data and operational challenges holistically, helping steer company processes to get the most out of the software we build. Our approach prioritizes simplifying complex systems, researching new tools, and continuously improving. Our applications blend unique technology applications with industry standards to ensure scalability and maintainability.
Key Responsibilities
- Gain an in-depth understanding of our React + Vite codebase, maintaining organization and minimizing bloat
- Develop new sections, components, and functionality within the application, as well as consolidating and improving existing features.
- Write unit and integration tests to ensure software stability
- Help manage dependencies and address security alerts
- Collaborate closely with backend engineering on API integration, data infrastructure, and security
- Participate in ticket tracking, standups, and sprint planning to maintain team visibility
- Write clear, readable, and well-documented code, adhering to team conventions and best practices
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer in a web application environment (APIs, SPAs, CI/CD, Cloud infrastructure, Git)
- 2+ years with React/Redux
Ideal Mindset
- Collaborative and team-oriented, understanding the importance of shared success and learning
- Open to asking questions, sharing ideas, and providing help to teammates
- Eager to adopt new standards and improve upon previous solutions
- Cautious of adding unnecessary complexity
- Committed to stability through test coverage and thorough documentation
Nice to Have
- Startup experience or flexibility in handling multiple responsibilities
- Familiarity with backend principles, though the focus is frontend
Role Benefits
- Opportunity to work with a modern tech stack and play a role in its ongoing evolution
- Direct feedback from global teams who use the products we build
- Team culture that values training, social events, and an international and diverse environment
Communications Skills
- Exceptional writing and verbal communication skills, able to prepare high impact materials.
- Participates effectively in both internal and external meetings.
- Maturity and poise to work directly with client executives.
Team Player
- Team player who can contribute to building a positive team spirit, keeps commitments, inspires the trust of others, works with integrity and ethically, and upholds firm values.
- Ability to perform under pressure, amid tight deadlines; can effectively prioritize and plan.
- Collaborative across teams and levels, both internally and externally.
- Understands coaching for long term development of self and others.
Why FT Partners?
- Managing Partner and Managing Directors formerly of Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan
- Award-winning execution; Investment Bank of the Year / Boutique of the Year Awards (among many others)
- Executing both billion dollar and early stage / high-growth VC transactions
- Excellent career path, strong and competitive compensation
- Unparalleled deal flow with premier client base
- Access to world-class executives at high-growth companies
- Dominant footprint in the one of largest sectors: financial technology
- Top-notch financial sponsor relationships
- Close-knit, rapidly growing team
Selected transactions include advising:
- Heartland Payments in its $4.5 billion sale to Global Payments (NYSE: GPN)
- Assurance IQ in its $3.5 billion sale to Prudential (NYSE: PRU)
- Mercury Payment in its $2.0 billion sale to Vantiv (NYSE:VNTV)
- SquareTrade in its $1.4 billion sale to Allstate (NYSE:ALL)
- Finicity in its $985 million sale to Mastercard (NYSE: MA)
- Interswitch in its $200 million minority investment led by Visa
- Checkout.com in its $230 million minority investment from Insight, DST, GIC, and others
- CardConnect in its $750 million sale to First Data (NYSE:FDC)
- GreenSky in its $300 million minority investment led by DST, TPG, Wellington Management, and Iconiq
- Instamed in its $500+ million sale to JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM)
- BlueVine in its $102 million minority investment led by ION
- Stone in its $1.4 bn IPO
- FleetOne in its $369mm sale to WEX (NYSE:WEX)
- AvidXchange in its $300 million financing from MasterCard (NYSE:MA), CDPQ, Temasek and Peter Thiel
- Automated Trading Desk in its $680 million sale to Citigroup (NYSE:C)
- Custom House Ltd. in its $370 million sale to Western Union (NYSE:WU)
- Addepar in its $140 million financing from Valor Equity Partners, 8VC and Harald McPike
- Automatic in its $115 million sale to SiriusXM (NASDAQ: SIRI)
- GoCardless in its $75 million minority investment from Adams Street Partners and Google Ventures
Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment: Financial Technology Partners is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, Aboriginal/Native American status or any other legally-protected factors.
