About the Role
Serve as an expert independent contributor and site owner for the firm's recently launched intranet and extranet properties. Take full ownership of the full web stack to ensure these critical digital touchpoints remain stable, secure, performant, and continuously evolving. Lead large and complex projects from intake through release and guide junior engineers.
Responsibilities
- Serve as an expert, senior-level independent contributor with advanced expertise across the full web stack, including presentation, application, and integration layers
- Maintain, enhance, and extend the firm's newly launched intranet and extranet properties, ensuring stability, performance, security, and continued feature delivery
- Develop and support web applications, including debugging current sites, programming enhancements, and developing new modules or features
- Take ownership for large and complex projects from start to finish, potentially reviewing junior engineers' work
- Partner closely with Design, Content, and Branding teams to translate visual designs into accessible, performant, and maintainable web experiences
- Partner with Product Owners to refine requirements, size work, and deliver features using an agile development workflow
- Work effectively as part of a team, collaborating with business stakeholders, designers, content authors, product owners, scrum masters, and fellow engineers
- Function independently, receiving directional guidance and self-directing projects
- Implement best practices around code quality, version control, testing, deployment, and site reliability
- Solve complex or non-standard challenges and formulate innovative solutions
- Build user interfaces by transforming wireframes and design mockups into functional, interactive web pages
- Connect front-end interfaces with back-end databases, content management systems, servers and third-party services
- Apply compliance requirements and provide documentation as necessary
- Maintain quality control of all public-facing web content and functionality according to marketing-compliance review processes and financial-services regulatory requirements
- Ensure web properties meet established accessibility standards, including WCAG 2.1 AA and applicable ADA requirements
Requirements
- Around 8-10+ years of experience building and optimizing large web applications in React or similar frameworks and integration with content management platforms like Wordpress
- Proven track record improving real‑user performance metrics at scale
- Strength in modern bundling and build tooling such as Webpack and performance profiling
- Experienced with Azure and devops deployments
- Strong systems thinking and ability to design paved‑road abstractions, guardrails, and tooling for many teams
- Excellent collaboration and communication across platform and product teams
- Curiosity and willingness to adopt AI tools
- Experience in a fast-paced and frequent code deployment environment
- Proficient in C#
- Experience with Angular
- Strong understanding of interaction patterns, responsive layout systems, accessibility, usability principles, and visual design best practices
- Proficient in Figma
- Up-to-date on modern tools and developer workflows (Cursor, Vercel, etc.)
- Ability to solve complex problems independently with minimal guidance
- Willingness to work in person at our office 4-5 days a week
- Authorized to work in the US without current or future visa sponsorship or transfer
Skills
- React
- Wordpress
- Webpack
- Azure
- DevOps
- C#
- Angular
- Figma
- Cursor
- Vercel
Location
- Chicago
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
- Remote
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Senior-level
- 8-10+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $160,000.00-$175,000.00
About the Company
- We focus relentlessly on delivering results through innovative solutions.
- We relish opportunities to solve complex problems through exhaustive approaches.
- Every member of Guggenheim is expected to uphold our uncompromising standards for integrity and excellence and to be personally accountable for their actions and business results.
- Our principles entail engaging highly talented people, challenging them to think creatively, and encouraging them to achieve extraordinarily high standards in their fields of expertise.
- To succeed at Guggenheim, candidates should be a strong fit with our business principles, culture, and value system.
- We encourage you to review Our Firm page to learn more about how we seek to create value through our diversified businesses.
- Visit the link below to review our current openings and job descriptions and to apply today.
- We offer compelling opportunities for self-starters who take great pride in the quality of their work and seek to exceed expectations.
- We are looking for people who take ownership, adhere to the highest standards, and think creatively to realize opportunities.
- Learn more at GuggenheimInvestments.com, and follow us on LinkedIn.
Equal Opportunity
- Guggenheim is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
