Lead Front End Engineer

Lead Front End Engineer

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  • Join the founding product/engineering team of an exciting new data/no-code startup, with funding in place, and validated customer demand.
  • Write the first lines of front end code and set the tone for how the team approaches user-facing software development.
  • Build the front end of our SaaS application and provide a rich, no-code UI for users to work with their financial data in the browser.
  • Collaborate with a high-performing, experienced team who've founded, built and exited startups. You'd be a valued peer alongside design, product, engineering and data science team members.
  • Translate an ambitious product vision into working software in a high-growth, early-stage environment.
  • Prototype potential approaches for how features could be implemented, and rapidly iterate based on user feedback.
  • Build out a design system and component library that enables your engineering teammates to move quickly and with confidence.
  • Contribute to code initially, with the ambition to grow as a team leader as the company expands, should you want to move in that direction.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience as a technical leader in Front-End development of a client-facing data product.
  • Experience in building complex interfaces.
  • Consolidated experience with React and Typescript.
  • Comfortable using Next.js.
  • Experience or interest in tRPC, Supabase, Clerk and Postgres.
  • Excellent HTML5, CSS3 and SASS knowledge.
  • Experience with REST APIs.
  • Understand styled components (we use Figma, Design Tokens and Styled Dictionary).
  • Experience in testing and debugging.
  • Clear communication (in English) and ability to work well with others in a distributed team.

Traits that you have that we'd be excited about:

  • Bias towards solving problems in simple, elegant ways.
  • Confident building with testing, reliability and accessibility in mind.
  • Experience being part of a high-growth startup or tech company.
  • Experience as a technical lead, working on user-facing software.
  • Experience with B2B SaaS products.
  • An eye for design quality and an instinct to get the details right.
  • Curious and passionate about your work.

Benefits

  • Salary: Up to £130k p.a. + option package
  • Holidays: 23 days p.a. + the days between Christmas & New Year + Public Holidays
  • Location: Remote, but UK/European time zone
  • Pension Contributions
  • Healthcare

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