Staff Front End Software Engineer
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Employment
- Full Time
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Staff
- H-1B history
- 16 approvals (FY2023)
- Posted
Skills
About this role
SS&C is a leading provider of mission-critical, AI-powered technology and services empowering financial services and healthcare organizations to work smarter, faster, and securely. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.
Job Description
Job Title: Staff Front End Software Engineer Location: San Francisco, CA, Jacksonville, FL, New York, NY About the Role The Geneva Web Development team is modernizing SS&C Advent's award-winning Geneva portfolio management and accounting platform with enterprise-scale React and TypeScript applications. We work closely with UX, Business Analyst, and QA teams to build reusable components, design systems, and high-performance user experiences for investment professionals worldwide. Why Join SS&C SS&C combines proprietary technology with deep industry expertise to support complex financial and health care operations. Our teams design, implement, and operate solutions that help clients manage data, automate processes, and scale their businesses with confidence. You will work with industry experts, modern platforms, and evolving technologies, gaining exposure to real-world operational challenges and large-scale enterprise environments. How You Will Make an Impact Develop modular and scalable code for front-end applications Work in all phases of software development lifecycle including design, research, development, code reviews, deployment, and testing. Provide a great user experience for our end users. Work effectively with User Experience, Business Analyst and QA teams. Contribute to presentation-layer standards and best practices.
Required Experience
10+ years of professional Web UI / frontend development experience. Proven experience designing and evolving large-scale enterprise Single Page Application (SPA) architectures Strong hands-on expertise in React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS . Strong understanding of frontend architecture patterns, component design, state management, routing, API integration, performance, accessibility, testing, and web security . Experience with modern UI frameworks, reusable component libraries, and design systems . Demonstrated Staff-level technical leadership , including architecture decisions, technical standards, design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring. Experience defining and evolving frontend technical architecture and technology roadmaps across multiple teams. Experience integrating SPAs with REST or gRPC . Strong understanding of browser internals, rendering performance, memory management, and frontend performance optimization . Experience designing and maintaining shared frontend platforms, libraries, and reusable application frameworks . Experience with frontend observability , including client-side logging, metrics, tracing, error monitoring, and performance diagnostics. Experience establishing frontend testing strategies across unit, component, integration, and end-to-end testing. Experience with frontend build systems, dependency management, and application delivery optimization , including code splitting, lazy loading, bundle optimization, and dependency governance. Experience collaborating closely with UX/design teams and translating design systems into reusable engineering components. What Sets You Apart ( qualifications) Experience with monorepo, micro-frontend, or modular frontend architectures , including tooling such as Nx, Turborepo, or pnpm workspaces . Experience with advanced state and data-management libraries such as Redux Toolkit or TanStack Query . Experience evaluating and working with alternative frontend frameworks and API integration technologies