About the role
We're looking for a Lead Front-End Developer who can own our consumer-facing product experiences end to end. What we need is someone who has built polished, high-performance B2C products at a startup, knows how to ship fast without cutting corners, and can raise the bar for a growing
front-end team.
Responsibilities:
- Define and evolve the front-end stack, patterns, and conventions.
- Make decisions on state management, component design, performance strategy, and build pipelines.
- Build and maintain scalable, reusable components and patterns that support multiple products and use cases
- Build responsive, mobile-first web applications that serve thousands of merchants and end users.
- Obsess over load times, interaction quality, and polish.
- Lead and mentor a small team of front-end developers.
- Run code reviews, establish standards, and create an environment where engineers grow.
- Work with back-end teams to design and integrate RESTful APIs.
- Own the contract between the front end and back end.
- Partner with product designers to translate Figma/design specs into pixel-perfect, accessible interfaces.
- Contribute to and maintain a shared design system.
- Champion front-end testing culture using Jest, React Testing Library, or Cypress.
- Ensure critical user flows are covered.
- Monitor and optimise Core Web Vitals, bundle sizes, and rendering performance.
- Set up tooling to catch regressions early.
Requirements:
- Deep expertise in the first two is non-negotiable; the rest you should be comfortable with or ready to pick up quickly.
- Must-have: Next.js, Tailwind CSS.
- Core: React, TypeScript, HTML5 CSS3 JavaScript (ES6+).
- Testing: Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress (or equivalent).
- Tooling: Git/GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, Webpack/ Turbopack.
- Collaboration: JIRA, Confluence, Agile/Scrum workflows.
- Nice to have: Familiarity with Figma, analytics/A/B testing platforms, monorepo tooling.