Senior Frontend Engineer

About the Role

As a Senior React Developer, you’ll help shape the platform’s core features, working with product and design teams to deliver high-quality products.

We’re building what we aim to be the best trading platform in the MENA region—a high-performance application that combines real-time data, advanced analytics, and an outstanding user experience. This is a ground-up project, and we’re looking for a senior React developer eager to be one of the first to shape and build the future of trading in the region.

What You'll Do

• Early Ownership: Take full ownership of key features and development tasks from project initiation through to launch, ensuring high responsiveness and performance.

• Collaborative Input: Partner with product and design teams to provide insights and suggestions from an engineering perspective, actively shaping the product’s experience and design.

• Independent Task Management: Manage priorities and timelines effectively to drive the project forward and meet goals.

• Clear Communication: Regularly update stakeholders on progress, communicate any blockers, and collaborate to find effective solutions.

• Operational Excellence: You are responsible for monitoring and responding to incidents as well as the continuous improvement of the services you develop and maintain.

What You'll Need

• 3+ years of experience with React, building responsive, high-performance applications.

• UI/UX: Understanding of UX design and development principles and use design tools such as Figma

• Data Visualization Expertise: Experience with charting libraries such as Highcharts, D3, or TradingView to create dynamic and interactive data visuals.

• State Management Expertise: Experience with solutions like Redux, MobX, or Context API.

• Strength in Testing Libraries: Proficiency in using testing libraries such as Jest or Cypress to ensure consistent functionality.

• Performance Optimization: Ability to enhance front-end performance, focusing on load time, memory management, and smooth rendering of data-heavy components.

• Component-Driven Development: Skilled in a component-driven approach to design and architecture, building modular and reusable UI elements.

Bonus - Nice To Have

• Real-Time Data Proficiency: Experience with technologies such as WebSocket for real-time data handling.

• Trading & Finance Background: Experience in finance or trading is a strong advantage.

Who Are We?

Thndr was founded on a bold dream to democratize access to investing through smart tech and human-centric design. This is simply our way of saying we give anyone with a smartphone the simple and easy access they need to preserve and grow their wealth. At the same time, we’re shaping the future of investing while actively driving the economies we serve by promoting local investment products.

History has shown that investing is the single greatest way to build long-term wealth, but before Thndr, only a very small percentage of people had access to it due to:

• High barriers to entry — In the form of excessive minimum account balances, complex, outdated onboarding, and low financial literacy.

• Irrelevant experience — Catered toward expert traders and financial specialists, therefore alienating the majority of the population.

• Fragmented offering — Investment products were not gathered in a single, intuitive outlet.

We don't just talk about change, we deliver it. Here's a glimpse into our impact so far:

• 3 million app downloads

• $8.8bn in annualized traded value

• #1 platform in terms of traded value

• 84% of our users are investing for the first time

• 65% of our users come from outside of capital cities and have previously had limited access to financial institutions

Building on the success of our core platform, we are continuing to change culture and break down barriers by launching Rumble, the subscription-based investment recommendations platform.

Rumble was born with the vision to empower everyday individuals to build wealth confidently and intelligently through access to timely and in-depth advice from the industry’s top experts.

Going beyond traditional investment advice, it offers long and short-term investment recommendations and financial content through engaging articles and videos that guide users on their financial journey and maximize their returns.

At Thndr, we're looking for people driven by our mission to help us democratize investing across the MENA region.