# Front-End Platform Developer

**Company:** [Geneva Trading](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/geneva-trading)
**Location:** Chicago, IL
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $120k – $180k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** C#, .net, tcp, multicast, multithreading, lock-free patterns, Performance Optimization, SQL, directx, opengl, C++, AI, Machine Learning
**Posted:** 2026-07-28

> Build and maintain high-performance desktop frontend tools and dashboards for trading visualization, trade management, risk, and real-time data. Requires 3-5 years experience with C#/.NET desktop apps, real-time data feeds, multithreading, and UI for large dynamic datasets.

## Job Description

## Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain internal toolset, dashboards and various backing services leveraged by our Trading, Support and Risk teams.
- Partner with traders and cross-functional teams to gather requirements and deliver high-impact, scalable solutions.
- Develop and extend the current frontend trading platform and supporting APIs, including various trade entry, management tools and technologies.
- Improve system performance, reliability, and scalability through testing, monitoring, automation, refactoring, and production support.

## Required Skills & Experience
- 3–5 years of professional software development experience.
- Strong C# (.NET or .NET Framework) experience building high-performance desktop applications.
- Experience with real-time data processing — TCP, multicast, or similar high-throughput data feeds.
- Experience rendering and interacting with large, rapidly updating datasets in a UI context.
- Familiarity with multithreading, lock-free patterns, and performance profiling/optimization.
- Solid understanding of databases and data modeling (SQL preferred).
- Strong communication skills (verbal, written and presentation skills) and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced trading environment.
- Proven ability to manage stakeholders and concurrent development initiatives, collaborating directly with traders (or similarly collaborative end-users), Support and Technology teams.

## Nice to Have
- Familiarity with various visualization API technologies such as DirectX or OpenGL.
- Experience developing advanced UI tools leveraging various frontend UI development frameworks.
- Experience developing servers and/or services with C++.
- Experience building complex multithreaded applications, preferably using native Threads and appropriate patterns.
- Exposure to AI or machine learning, particularly applied use cases such as automation or intelligent reporting.
- Experience in trading, financial services, game development, or other high-reliability, time-sensitive environments.
- Experience translating business requirements into clear, maintainable technical solutions.

## Compensation
Base Salary Range: $120,000 - $180,000, plus eligibility for a performance-based bonus.

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