Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Go + TypeScript)

Company Overview

hermeneutic research is a best-in-class proprietary trading firm and hedge fund. It deploys research-driven discretionary and systematic strategies as well as makes strategic long-term investments. The partners' decade-long history of success in trading and business building and a firm-wide cultural emphasis on alpha generation, open debate, relentless iteration, and teamwork are key to the firm's continued expansion in a challenging market environment that has hamstrung competitors. A hard-wired emphasis on risk management and opportunistic market participation ensure that hermeneutic research will continue its growth trajectory in the coming decades.

Job Overview

We are seeking experienced full-stack engineers to build the user interfaces and services for mission-critical financial applications: visual analytics platforms and data-driven tools used by traders, researchers, and analysts.

You will work on the TypeScript front-ends and the Go services that serve them. We are evolving our front-end applications into a modular, plugin-based platform that other engineers and teams build on—so you will build reusable UI modules, component libraries, and SDKs as much as end-user features, and also the Go services that ingest, process, and serve market and on-chain data to these applications. You will own your work from structured product requirements through to production.

This is a highly collaborative role in a fast-paced environment where clean design, high performance, and responsive UIs are critical to the business.

You don't need a background in trading or finance. We care most about engineering craft and will teach you the domain.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with traders, researchers, and product managers to translate complex workflows into elegant UI solutions.

• Design and implement high-performance, responsive front-end applications using a current-generation TypeScript framework (Svelte, React, or Vue).

• Design, build and operate Go back-end services with security and performance considerations baked into their design.

• Own service boundaries and data contracts end-to-end, from Go services to typed front-end SDKs.

• Build reusable UI modules, component libraries, and SDKs for a modular, plugin-based UI platform.

• Build real-time UIs that ingest and render high-frequency market and on-chain data from multiple streaming sources.

• Develop high-performance data visualizations for large, fast-updating datasets, using canvas-based charting (e.g. uPlot, TradingView Lightweight Charts) and D3.js for bespoke views.

• Integrate the front-end with back-end services through typed SDKs and MCP-based interfaces, including real-time market and on-chain data.

• Drive architecture and performance decisions for modular, extensible systems, with scalability and maintainability in mind.

• Deploy and maintain applications, keeping them reliable and performant under heavy load.

• Write and maintain automated tests and take part in code review to keep the codebase reliable and maintainable.

• Support system maintenance and feature evolution with a high delivery cadence and short iteration cycles.

• Mentor other engineers and promote engineering best practices across the team.

Requirements

Must Have

• 7+ years of hands-on full-stack development, with production ownership on both back-end and front-end.

• Strong, current TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and one or more modern front-end frameworks (Svelte, React, or Vue), with the adaptability to work primarily in the framework a team has chosen rather than staying tied to one.

• Strong, current Go experience, able to design, build and operate production Go services independently.

• Experience building reusable, well-structured UI components and shared abstractions.

• Proven experience handling large datasets and real-time updates from back-end sources (WebSockets, Server-Sent Events).

• Strong understanding of performance optimization and rendering strategies in data-heavy applications, including a solid grasp of the JavaScript runtime.

• Solid testing discipline, with unit and integration tests as a normal part of delivery.

• Genuine UI/UX sensibility—you can tell a polished interface from a rough one, and care about the difference.

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and version control.

• Excellent communication and collaboration in a cross-functional team.

Nice to Have

• Background or strong interest in trading systems or financial platforms.

• Exceptional design taste / portfolio-grade UI work.

• Experience with relational databases, data warehouses, and caching strategies.

• Experience with real-time or on-chain / crypto market data.

• Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol) or other AI-native / agent integration.

• Experience building developer platforms, SDKs, or shared component libraries used by other engineers.

• Understanding of microservice architectures, continuous delivery, and zero-downtime deployment.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and observability tools such as Datadog, Grafana, or ELK.

• Prior work in hedge funds, proprietary trading, or similar finance environments.

Interview Process

• CV Screening – We will review your application based on the qualifications and experience outlined above.

• Phone Screening – A screening session with a few on-the-spot technical questions to assess your fundamental knowledge and problem-solving approach.

• Assignment – A take-home assignment to demonstrate your approach, critical thinking, and relevant skills.

• Assignment Review – A discussion of your assignment, focusing on your approach, reasoning, and solutions.

• CTO Interview – Interview with the CTO to discuss your experience, technical expertise, problem-solving approach, and overall fit for the role.

• Co-Founder Interview – A concluding discussion to evaluate cultural fit, strategic alignment, and how you resonate with the firm’s values.

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