Senior Frontend Engineer in London

About Wahed

The global financial system wasn’t built for everyone. For millions of people, its reliance on interest (riba) creates a barrier to managing money and building wealth without compromising their values. At Wahed, we’re changing that. We are a global fintech company on a mission to build a new financial system—one that is ethical, accessible, and entirely interest-free. From our offices across the globe, our team is building products that were once deemed impossible, from pioneering Shariah-compliant equity ETFs, creating true riba‑free alternatives to high yield savings accounts, to creating no‑leverage real estate investments for truly interest‑free income producing assets. If you’re driven to solve complex problems and believe finance should empower, not exclude, join us in building a more equitable financial future.

Job Brief

We are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to join our Core development team. As a team member, you will play a role in building, maintaining, designing, and implementing new and current features primarily on the Wahed Platform, a React Native app. Building product and innovative features is a highly collaborative effort, and as such, a strong team player with a commitment to perfection is required. We are looking for candidates that are self‑motivated and eager to learn new technologies, work well both within a team and on their own, and have an attention to detail.

Job Description

• Development of the React Native architecture including creating and maintaining core mobile components.
• Work with other senior engineers to drive and deliver on our product roadmap, turning rough specs into features.
• Provide leadership and mentorship to other frontend and mobile engineers on the team.
• Find elegant solutions to usability problems.
• Build pixel‑perfect, buttery smooth UIs across all our frontend platforms.
• Engineer new features that can work seamlessly across all maintained web and mobile applications.
• Leverage APIs for integrations with other platforms.

Job Specification

• At least 2 years of recent experience working with React Native.
• At least 7 years of commercial experience with JavaScript and TypeScript and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax, React, React Native and GraphQL.
• Product minded: committed to building the best user experience.
• Understand the trade-offs in employing different engineering solutions to a problem, valuing pragmatism over idealism.
• Eager and open to learning.
• General understanding of Swift, Objective‑C and Java.
• Experience with AWS.
• Experience with Server‑side JS e.g. Node JS.
• Familiar with event‑based and microservices architectures.
• Understanding the standards and rules regulated by the Apple Developer/Connect system.
• Have an app hosted publicly in the Google or Apple app store(s).

Why this role stands out

This is an opportunity to play a role in building, maintaining, designing, and implementing new and current features primarily on the Wahed Platform, a React Native app. As part of the Core development team, you will contribute to products that help build a more ethical, accessible, and entirely interest‑free financial system. Building product and innovative features is a highly collaborative effort, and as such, a strong team player with a commitment to perfection is required. We are looking for candidates that are self‑motivated and eager to learn new technologies, work well both within a team and on their own, and have an attention to detail.