Lead UX Engineer

Balyasny Asset Management

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Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$200,000–$250,000 / yr
Posted
78 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

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About Balyasny Asset Management

Balyasny Asset Management (BAM) is a global multi-manager hedge fund offering diversified investment strategies across equities, macro, commodities, and systematic trading.

Balyasny Asset Management currently has 59 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $175,000–$250,000 across 30 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Lead UX Engineer

The Lead UX Engineer joins the Enterprise UX team to provide technical leadership in advancing shared UI foundations, design-system strategy, and UX standards for internal applications supporting investment, operations, and corporate workflows. This hands-on role involves building reusable React and TypeScript components while establishing standards for component APIs, ShadCN, Tailwind, design tokens, and accessibility. The engineer will translate Figma patterns into scalable production components, manage library governance, and define the roadmap for shared front-end capabilities to ensure consistent, high-quality experiences. Key technical requirements include expertise in modern JavaScript, versioning, and testing frameworks. The role addresses complex business problems by creating UI foundations for data-dense enterprise applications involving capital markets, trading, risk management, and portfolio analytics. Candidates may also utilize tools like AG Grid or Highcharts to build sophisticated dashboards and real-time grids.

What you'll do

  • Lead the architecture, technical direction, and governance of the firmwide design system and shared UI platform.
  • Build and evolve reusable production-quality React and TypeScript components and libraries for internal applications.
  • Establish standards for component APIs, ShadCN, Tailwind, design tokens, theming, and versioning.
  • Translate Figma patterns into scalable, accessible, and maintainable production components.
  • Review high-impact workflows and shared components for usability, accessibility, performance, and visual consistency.
  • Set the roadmap for shared front-end capabilities and provide documentation, prototypes, and developer enablement.
  • Manage design system governance including libraries, tokens, variants, and component structure.

What we're looking for

  • At least 8 years of experience in front-end engineering, UX engineering, design-system engineering, or a related technical field.
  • Deep production experience with React, TypeScript, modern JavaScript, component architecture, and reusable front-end libraries.
  • Proven experience building, scaling, or leading a design system used across multiple products or engineering teams.
  • Experience with ShadCN, Tailwind, or comparable UI primitives and styling systems.
  • Expertise in defining component APIs, composition patterns, testing standards, versioning, and backward-compatible library releases.
  • Strong Figma expertise including libraries, tokens, variants, component properties, documentation, and design-system governance.
  • Strong accessibility expertise including semantic HTML, keyboard navigation, focus management, ARIA, and interaction design.
  • Strong communication, influence, and strategic judgment across engineering, design, product, platform, and senior stakeholders.

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