Staff SW Engineer - Front-End / UI (Fintech)

Location: Bellevue, Washington, United States; hybrid with at least 3 days per week in the office. Travel required 5–10% of the time.

Salary: $141,100–$226,000 USD per year, potentially including sales incentives; bonus and equity may also apply.

Company

hirify.global is a global payments technology company facilitating transactions among consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories.

What you will do

• Design and develop responsive, accessible, performant, secure, and scalable web interfaces and front-end applications.
• Lead front-end architecture covering component structure, state management, API integration, performance, reusable patterns, and design systems.
• Build shared UI components, front-end libraries, developer tooling, frameworks, and automation for production applications.
• Translate user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and product requirements into polished digital experiences with UX/UI designers and product managers.
• Define API contracts, data flows, authentication, error handling, and integration patterns with back-end and platform engineering teams.
• Lead technical design and code reviews, mentor engineers, evaluate emerging technologies, and participate in incident response and on-call support.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree, 2+ years with an advanced degree, 0 years with a PhD, or 8+ years of relevant work experience.
• Software engineering experience focused on front-end or user interface development.
• Hands-on experience with JavaScript or TypeScript and a modern front-end framework such as React, Angular, or Vue.
• Experience with HTML, CSS, modern browser technologies, responsive development, and component-based production interfaces.
• Experience integrating front-end applications with RESTful APIs or service-based architectures.
• Experience with front-end testing practices and frameworks, including unit, component, integration, or end-to-end testing.
• Experience debugging complex front-end applications and optimizing performance, reliability, usability, and cross-browser compatibility.
• Experience collaborating with UX/UI design, product management, back-end engineering, and QA teams.
• Experience leading technical design and code reviews and influencing engineering standards across development teams.

Nice to have

• 6+ years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree, 4+ years with an advanced degree, or up to 3 years with a PhD.
• Deep hands-on experience with React and TypeScript or comparable modern front-end technologies.
• Experience with large-scale front-end architectures, enterprise web applications, design systems, shared component libraries, and reusable UI frameworks.
• Strong understanding of WCAG and accessible UI development practices.
• Experience with front-end tooling, automated testing frameworks, build systems, CI/CD, and quality controls.
• Experience integrating complex interfaces with APIs, microservices, authentication and authorization platforms, and distributed systems.
• Experience providing technical leadership, architecture guidance, and mentorship across engineers or development teams.
• Experience building high-volume customer-facing digital products, preferably in payments, financial services, fintech, or another highly regulated environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time office-based hybrid work with expectations confirmed by the Hiring Manager; work hours vary according to department needs.
• Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, life insurance, paid time off, and wellness benefits may be available.
• Work includes approximately 60–75% hands-on coding and collaboration across design, product, engineering, and QA disciplines.
• Digital fluency is required, including the ability to use emerging technologies such as Generative AI tools, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Copilot.
• The role is performed in an office setting and requires sitting or standing at a desk, in-person and telephone communication, and frequent use of office equipment.