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Location: Laguna Beach, CA (prefers fully onsite, but would consider hybrid onsite 2-3 days a week)

Compensation: Depends on experience but is typically $110-130K plus bonus.

aGC72, a nationwide provider of staffing and recruiting solutions, has an immediate opening for a FBXXV-AP7 zjFkDy C2HDyNTQ – UI/UX Design, React, Next.js | Financial Applications.

About the Role

Work on a rapidly evolving, data-rich application within an investment management firm. We're looking for a design-focused front-end engineer to own its user interface and experience, making complex financial information clear, intuitive, visually polished, and easy to navigate.

This is a hands-on role that blends UI/UX design and front-end engineering in roughly equal measure. You'll evaluate existing interfaces, identify opportunities to improve usability and visual presentation, design thoughtful solutions, and implement them in production using React and Next.js.

The primary focus will be an internally developed research and portfolio management application used by investment analysts and portfolio managers throughout their workflows, from research and reporting to investment decisions and trade submissions.

You'll work directly with these users to understand their needs and create interfaces tailored to how they work. The team values independent thinking, intellectual curiosity, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

What You'll Do

• Redesign core workflows, starting with one or two high-impact areas in month one.

• Build readable tables, intuitive navigation, and clear visual hierarchies that answer users' questions in the right order.

• Own front-end quality, including interaction polish, performance, and accurate presentation of numerical data.

• Evaluate existing application screens to identify usability issues, confusing layouts, inconsistent interactions, and opportunities to improve the overall user experience.

• Design and implement intuitive, visually polished interfaces that make complex financial data and multi-step workflows easier to understand and navigate.

• Establish clear information hierarchies, thoughtful page layouts, and consistent interaction patterns across the application.

• Collaborate directly with portfolio managers, research analysts, and other internal stakeholders to understand their workflows and translate their needs into practical UI improvements.

• Improve existing application screens, customize interfaces for individual users, and develop new pages and UI elements.

• Balance visual aesthetics with functionality, data accuracy, and performance when designing and implementing front-end solutions.

• Independently identify opportunities for improvement and carry solutions from concept through production implementation, collaborating with the technical lead as needed.

Requirements

• Roughly 0–5 years of relevant experience, with exceptional production work in React and Next.js. Relevant internship experience may be considered.

• Strong hands-on UI design capabilities, with the ability to independently evaluate, redesign, and implement production-quality application interfaces.

• Demonstrated understanding of visual hierarchy, layout, typography, spacing, navigation, usability, and interaction design principles.

• Ability to simplify complex, data-dense screens and workflows without sacrificing functionality or numerical accuracy.

• Strong visual and interaction design judgment, particularly for dense analytical or financial interfaces.

• Experience translating user needs into practical interface designs and implementing those designs directly in React applications.

• The initiative to spot problems and carry improvements from concept through implementation without detailed product direction.

• Numerical fluency: the ability to notice when values, calculations, or their presentation don't make sense.

• A portfolio and/or GitHub showcasing shipped, production-quality applications is required. Work samples must demonstrate hands-on front-end engineering capabilities and strong UI design judgment, rather than only conceptual designs or speculative redesigns.

• Ability to work collaboratively with internal stakeholders while independently driving design and development improvements.

• Strong intellectual curiosity, willingness to learn, and a continuous-improvement mindset.

• Experience with TanStack or comparable React data-management and table libraries, such as AG Grid or MUI Data Grid, is preferred.

• Experience in financial services, asset management, fintech, or other data-intensive applications is preferred.

• Python experience is a plus.