Senior React Engineer – AVP

Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior React Engineer – AVP. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. Build the front-end experience for the next generation of Markets Sales platforms at Barclays. In this role, you will design and deliver modern, high-performing applications that help front-office teams simplify complex workflows, improve productivity, and unlock smarter digital experiences. You will join a greenfield transformation where modern React engineering, scalable UI architecture, and AI-enabled capabilities are shaping the future of investment banking technology. You will work on visible, business-critical technology with meaningful ownership, modern engineering practices, and close partnership with product, design, and front-office stakeholders. If you enjoy building elegant interfaces that simplify complex workflows, this role offers the scale, platform, and impact to do your best work.

To be successful as a Senior React Engineer - AVP, you should:

• Demonstrate deep proficiency in React and TypeScript, including hooks, custom hooks, performance optimization, error boundaries, Suspense, and modern component-based architecture

• Work confidently with modern front-end tooling and styling, including Vite, Rollup, npm or pnpm, modern CSS, CSS-in-JS, responsive design, and utility-first frameworks such as Tailwind CSS

• Apply practical experience with Redux Toolkit, state management, reusable design patterns, API integration, and scalable enterprise front-end applications

• Use software engineering fundamentals to turn complex requirements into clean, scalable, well-tested front-end solutions

• Bring a quality mindset, with practical experience in Jest, Vitest, React Testing Library, Playwright, maintainable test coverage, and clean engineering standards

Other highly valued skills include:

• Exposure to financial services, especially Markets, front-office workflows, sales technology platforms, or Fixed Income products and processes

• Understanding of full-stack delivery, including backend services, API contracts, integration patterns, software delivery practices, and end-to-end solution thinking

• Knowledge of DevOps and modern delivery practices, including GitLab CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, release management, resiliency, and operational support

• UX/UI experience, including user-centered design, accessibility standards, design systems, reusable component libraries, and Figma design tokens; exposure to OpenFin or similar desktop container technologies is a plus

• Exposure to AI-assisted engineering, prompt-based development, and productivity tools that improve delivery quality, code maintainability, and team efficiency

You may be assessed on the critical skills needed for success in this role, including risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, and job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in our Whippany, New Jersey office.

Minimum Salary: $120,000

Maximum Salary: $175,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues. 

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.