Senior Frontend Engineer

About us

Aquanow is a trading and technology company powering the next generation of financial services. We're at the forefront of the rapidly evolving digital asset space, empowering businesses to navigate the complexities of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. As a leading provider of infrastructure solutions, we offer innovative services in cryptocurrency trading, liquidity management, and secure digital asset storage. Our platform is built to deliver seamless, scalable, and reliable solutions that cater to the needs of institutional clients and businesses seeking to unlock the potential of digital finance. Aquanow is committed to driving growth and shaping the future of the digital economy by offering unparalleled opportunities for innovation and advancement in the world of digital assets.

With rapid global expansion, we have established offices in Vancouver, Toronto, Dubai, Malaysia, Turkey, and beyond. Our international customer base includes some of the world's fastest-growing fintech companies and leading financial institutions.

Your Contribution to Our Growth

We are hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer to join our Front Office Engineering team to help build the next generation of trading and operational platforms. This role represents a chance to take ownership of key client-facing and internal applications.

You'll collaborate with a team of engineers and work closely with product and design to build highly performant, scalable, and user-friendly applications. Projects will range from enhancing our trading platform and admin tools, to building entirely new user interfaces that support institutional clients and operations teams.

As a senior member of the team, you'll lead projects, mentor teammates, and set high standards for frontend quality, reliability, and design implementation.

This is a full-time, permanent position working hybrid from our Downtown Vancouver or Downtown Toronto office.

What You'll Do

• Lead the design and development of scalable, performant web applications using React, , and TypeScript.
• Build and maintain client-facing trading platforms, internal admin dashboards, and new UI features from the ground up.
• Integrate with GraphQL APIs, real-time subscriptions, and internal SDKs to deliver responsive and data-rich experiences.
• Partner with designers to translate Figma mockups into pixel-perfect, responsive components.
• Contribute to our component library (Material-UI based), ensuring consistent design and UX across applications.
• Implement advanced state management patterns with React Query or Redux Toolkit.
• Write comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests with Jest, React Testing Library, and Playwright.
• Optimize applications for performance, especially for real-time data, large datasets, and complex financial interactions.
• Collaborate across teams to ensure frontend best practices, code quality, and maintainable architecture.
• Mentor junior developers, review code, and help establish frontend standards within the team.

We'd Love to See

• 6+ years of professional frontend development experience, with deep expertise in React and TypeScript.
• Experience building enterprise-grade applications in fintech, trading, or other financial domains.
• Proficiency with and modern frontend tooling (monorepos, pnpm, Nx, Vite/Webpack).
• Strong understanding of GraphQL (schema-first development, subscriptions, caching).
• Background in building and scaling complex state management solutions (React Query, Redux Toolkit).
• Hands-on experience with testing frameworks (Jest, Vitest, Playwright, Storybook).
• Experience optimizing for high-frequency real-time data and complex UI performance.
• Familiarity with component libraries like Material-UI (or equivalent).
• An eye for modern UI and design
• A track record of leading projects, mentoring developers, and setting engineering best practices.
• Exposure to financial/trading systems or digital assets.

These are not strict requirements to thrive in this role. We believe that people can learn and understand technologies if they are willing. We encourage you to still apply if some of the requirements are missing or lacking.

At our offices you will find a group of people that embrace diversity and value performance over pedigree. Every day we draw value from the diverse experiences of our team whose backgrounds include top financial institutions, tech companies and untraditional backgrounds. Our success comes from identifying exceptional people and providing them with the platform to reach their true potential.

Aquanow is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, qualified veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other unlawful criterion or circumstance.