Lead Front-End Engineer in London

Requirements

• 7+ years experience as a front-end engineer with experience of some or all of the technologies in our platform or equivalents
• Knowledge of building and running banking-grade Cloud-based SaaS solutions
• Attention to detail and empathy to user needs and experience
• Excellent communication skills
• Flexible and focussed on solutions
• Organised and self-sufficient
• Background and/or enthusiasm for the ways we work:

• Test Driven Development - we use vitest and react-testing-library across our codebase
• Build automation, continuous integration and continuous deployment to production systems
• Agile/iterative development processes
• Shared code ownership & cross-functional teams
• Collaborative design and development
• Pair programming

What the job involves

FoundryOS is a modular fintech infrastructure platform that powers next-generation banking and wealth propositions. It provides core services for identity, accounts, payments, trading and lending, all configurable through a single operating system that’s built for speed, compliance and flexibility.

We’re big believers in autonomous teams and iterative development. We’re crazy about continuous improvement and knowledge sharing, and we want people who share our enthusiasm. We strive to always build the right thing and build the thing right, so we place great emphasis on understanding exactly what our clients need and delivering quality products that exceed their expectations.

We think that high performing teams operate best through a model of build-it and run-it that comes from a deep curiosity about how our products work and how our clients use them. We use this foundation to build comprehensive product knowledge and industry expertise, but we’re not dogmatic about it.

We operate in multiple build squads that operate independently but align to the same goals and ways of working. We recognise that different drives guide our roadmaps from client needs to commercial strategy to regulatory change and managing those dependencies are made through aligned team decisions.

We make client success everyone’s business — what we are going to do and how we do it are team decisions. We strongly believe that you grow expertise through hands-on experience, rather than just theoretical knowledge, so our approach to product leadership is designed to give you deep exposure to our products, our clients, and the fintech industry really fast. And really often.

We build our product and tech function with focus on:

• Understanding FoundryOS capabilities, industry needs and client use cases
• Quality is at the heart of everything we do and not just a gate in a process
• Leading product roadmaps, planning and establishing best practices
• Developing expertise in the financial services industry and regulatory environments
• Building and maintaining exceptional client relationships through team excellence
• Zero-to-one function building — creating product delivery frameworks, engineering performance systems, and product delivery processes from the ground up

We build our front-end with technology like:

• React, React Native, TypeScript & JavaScript, Next.js, Node, HTML, CSS
• GraphQL-based APIs - we use Apollo on the client-side
• Cloud deployments - Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub
• Observability - Sentry

Lead the technical design and development of one of the core front-end domains within the FoundryOS platform. Ensure high-performance, scalable, available, fault-tolerant systems are built and maintained. Directly manage, coach and mentor the team of Engineers developing talent and fostering a culture of technical ownership, collaboration and quality. Define and execute the technical strategy and architecture decisions alongside other Lead Engineers and the CTO. Partner with Product Managers, Designers and leadership to refine and execute the product domain’s roadmap. Contribute as a core member of the technology leadership team covering information security and governance to establish standards, protocols and mechanisms for secure, reliable SaaS solutions. In a “you build it, you run it” model ensure that continual delivery is executed, technical risks and dependencies are managed and ensure the team adopts DevOps practices.