Job Title: Python/React Developer
Duration: 18 Month W2 Contract
Location: Jersey City, NJ
Required Pay Scale:$68.25/hour
We are seeking a strong, hands-on engineer to augment the UI Horizontal team, with ownership of change management processes and responsibility for ensuring application compliance with bank policies.
Key Responsibilities
• Enhance and maintain existing business applications (core frameworks, trade blotters, management reporting tools)
• Partner with global technology teams to deliver strategic solutions and reduce redundant processes
• Support business and technology teams with product inquiries across Fixed Income, Currencies, and Derivatives
• Maintain clear, current documentation to support business growth initiatives
• Work closely with Front Office trading desks to diagnose, understand, and resolve critical issues
• Navigate incomplete or ambiguous requirements to deliver durable solutions
• Collaborate extensively with internal teams, external brokers, and third-party organizations
• Communicate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders
• Produce clear, concise documentation and root-cause analyses to aid resolution
• Contribute innovative ideas and support the rollout of new products and capabilities
Required Skills
• Intellectually curious, collaborative, and proactive, with a strong sense of ownership
• Proven experience in high-pressure, fast-paced environments
• Strong coding, analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Fluent in LLMs and agentic workflows
• Strong interest in and understanding of financial markets and products
• Hands-on experience with:
-Python and JavaScript (React, Node.js)
-SQL and NoSQL databases
-ETL processes
-RESTful APIs and GraphQL
• Streaming and connectivity protocols for financial data
• Ability to prioritize across competing issues based on business demand
• Comfortable interfacing with both technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels
• JavaScript
• Node.js
• ReactJS
• SQL and NoSQL databases
• RESTful APIs
• GraphQL
• WebSockets
• Jenkins, Git, Bitbucket, Artifactory
• CI/CD pipelines
• Docker, Helm
• OpenShift / Kubernetes
• XLR
• Understanding of financial instruments
• Fluent in LLMs and agentic workflows
• Advanced / Fluent English
Desired Skills
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Availability during trading hours (9:00 AM-7:00 PM, Monday through Friday)
About Matlen Silver
Experience Matters. Let your experience be driven by our experience. For more than 40 years, Matlen Silver has delivered solutions for complex talent and technology needs to Fortune 500 companies and industry leaders. Led by hard work, honesty, and a trusted team of experts, we can say that Matlen Silver technology has created a solutions experience and legacy of success that is the difference in the way the world works.
Matlen Silver is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, the presence of a non-job-related medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status.
If you are a person with a disability needing assistance with the application or at any point in the hiring process, please contact us at email and/or phone at: [email protected] // 908-393-8600
At The Matlen Silver Group, Inc., W2 employees are eligible for the following benefits:
- Health, vision, and dental insurance (single and family coverage)
- 401(k) plan (employee contributions only)