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Front-End Engineer

Funding Xchange
Full-time
Remote
United Kingdom

Senior Front End Engineer (Remote) 

This is a remote position within the UK. We currently don’t provide visa sponsorship. 

 

We are a B2B Fintech focusing on disrupting the small business lending market. SMEs make up 99% of all UK businesses yet are traditionally underserved by big banks and financial institutions.  

 

By joining FXE Tech, you will be positively disrupting a traditionally manual industry through the intelligent application of technology to improve the daily lives of small and medium business owners and empower them with same-day decisions in a world where they would be otherwise waiting for access to finance. 

Role Description

We're looking for a Senior Front End Engineer excited by the prospect of joining our mission to extend our SME funding platform and to beneficially transform the small business lending market.

 

This role will be a front-end focused, trusted technical authority within FXE Tech and a senior collaborator who will take the lead on development of front-end features and capabilities. 

 

You'll be

·        Acting as a feature lead and owning the delivery for a variety of software projects, including: 

      • Building a modern user management console
      • Creating an intuitive product configuration UI
      • Migrating legacy JSP based monolith to React/TypeScript component-based solution leveraging BFF pattern
      • Enabling while-label product model where solution can be configured and re-branded by individual clients

·        Helping shape our tech stack to align with our product & technical roadmap, including converting legacy platforms into microservices.  

·        Contributing to the prioritisation and dependencies across a project/initiative. 

·        Forming close partnerships within a cross-functional team to deliver our product vision and roadmap. 

·        Interacting with product managers to develop a deep understanding of our stakeholders’ business problems and customer needs, ensuring that what we build meets their needs. 

·        Analysing requirements, discussing solutions with stakeholders, creating and maintaining documented technical designs. 

·        Ensuring existing and new features are sufficiently covered by unit and integration tests. 

·        Developing a culture of intellectual curiosity, engineering excellence, continuous improvement and innovation. 

·        Mentoring and shadowing less experienced engineers. supporting engineering colleagues at all levels of expertise in an open and inclusive manner. 

·        Defining, improving, and documenting technical approaches and processes. 

 

Who you'll be

Required technical experience: 

·        Modern software development processes: CI/CD, TDD, Pair programming, Agile & iterative development.

·        8+ years experience in front-end development

·        Proficiency in TypeScript & React

·        Proficient in a selection of modern web frameworks (e.g. Tailwind CSS, Material Tailwind, NextJS)

·        Proficient in modern front-end testing tools (e.g. Jest, React Testing Library, Mock Service Worker, Playwright), and a deep understanding of which ones apply to different elements of the product

·        Familiarity with creating/maintaining an internal UI component/design library

·        Strong understanding of responsive web design and web accessibility standards

·        Experienced in helping to design and contribute to maintainable HTTP APIs based on REST practices

 

Collaboration & delivery 

·        A great collaborator who can support colleagues with different levels of expertise. 

·        Excellent written, diagramming, and verbal communication skills. Efficient communicator both within the team and with stakeholders. 

·        You take a pragmatic approach towards delivering the highest priority capabilities first. 

·        Design solutions with the appropriate complexity for the problem space and can convey the reasoning behind these design decisions. 

 

Nice to have: 

·        Node.js experience

·        Familiarity with Backend for Frontends (BFF) pattern

·        Familiarity and interest in helping with backend development (Kotlin, Java, Spring)

·        Queuing and PubSub technologies (Kafka, SQS, Google PubSub) 

·        Experience delivering SaaS/B2B products 

 

Fully-remote UK based or work from our Hub in Shoreditch, London, whatever you prefer. We'd like someone who's prepared to come to the London office on occasion.

 

Benefits

  • Flexible / hybrid working
  • Employee assistance and wellbeing support
  • Autoenrollment in the pension scheme with contributions from Funding Xchange
  • Virtual GP
  • 25 days annual leave PLUS UK Bank Holidays
  • Life Assurance – 4 x your base salary should the worst happen
  • Talent Referral Scheme
  • Will writing service
  • Discounts with selected partners such as ASOS, Amazon, Tesco and more
  • Regular socials and team get togethers

 

FXE is an equal opportunities employer” and all positions are open to all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.