Steve King
Director, Head Of UX And UI, Post Trade Markets at Barclays Investment Bank
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve King is a seasoned software leader with 14 years of experience who currently heads UX and UI for Post Trade Markets at Barclays Investment Bank. He has progressed from hands-on JavaScript and front-end roles (BBC, Caplin, Reuters) to technical leadership at major financial firms including J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley, blending product-facing design sensibilities with engineering discipline. Known for shaping client-side architecture and driving consolidation of best practices, he moved into management and principal engineering roles while retaining a practical coding background. Steve also contributes to open-source tooling—working on a lightweight Node.js git interface that manipulates local git configuration—illustrating his interest in developer ergonomics and backend automation. Based in London, he pairs deep market-structure domain knowledge with a track record of delivering resilient, user-centric trading and post-trade systems. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic architect who bridges UX, front-end craftsmanship and large-scale engineering delivery.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of York
Github Skills (6)
git10
javascript10
nodejs10
apidoc9
api9
version-control9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
steveukx/git-js
Aug 2013 - Jan 2023
A light weight interface for running git commands in any node.js application.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 1055 commits, 682 PRs in 9 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Steve contributed to the implementation of core functionality in a Node.js application that interacts with the Git repository. They added functionality for creating, fetching, and modifying git configuration options in local scope by adding methods to the api. The user worked on the core of the application by contributing to the addition of various functionalities to interact with the underlying git installation.
clilight-weightlightnode-jsjavascript
kwsites/file-exists
Oct 2018 - Jun 2020
Synchronous file / folder existence check
Contributions:8 commits, 3 pushes, 3 tags in 1 year 7 months
existencesynchronous
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