Lead React Web Engineer (React/TypeScript)

TL;DR

Lead React Web Engineer (React/TypeScript): Providing technical leadership for web work on the Zable website with an accent on designing and building React and TypeScript front ends, guiding implementation choices and helping the team ship high quality experiences. Focus on frontend architecture, managing complexity, improving performance, reliability, and accessibility, and mentoring other engineers.

Location: Hybrid (London, UK) – office attendance required Tuesday-Thursday.

Company

hirify.global is a profitable fintech unicorn founded in 2014, backed by Goldman Sachs, focused on building technology to provide credit and financial products in the UK and US markets.

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership for web development on the Zable website, setting React and TypeScript frontend direction.
• Collaborate with product managers and designers to define and deliver web projects.
• Design and review frontend architecture, ensuring codebase health and scalability.
• Guide testing and quality approaches for web journeys, setting standards for unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Lead efforts to improve performance, reliability, and accessibility using metrics and tools.
• Identify technical debt and platform risks, balancing new features with architecture improvements.
• Mentor and support engineers through design discussions, code reviews, and pairing.
• Collaborate with other technical leads to align on shared standards and cross-team initiatives.

Requirements

• Deep experience building and scaling React applications in production with strong TypeScript knowledge and modern web engineering practices.
• Experience breaking down business requirements into deliverable tasks, estimating complexity, and planning work across a team.
• Ability to identify technical challenges in designs and propose alternative approaches with clear trade-offs.
• Passion for building high-performing teams, improving team flow, and encouraging accountability.
• Experience mentoring and supporting other engineers for their personal and professional growth.
• Track record of leading automated testing and quality practices, taking a pragmatic approach to improvements.
• Ability to identify and assess technical debt in web systems, advocating for code and architecture improvements.
• Awareness of accessibility needs for web users and familiarity with approaches and tools to meet guidelines.

Nice to have

• Experience leading web teams that have built or worked on products which scaled to very large user bases.
• Experience with frameworks used for larger web applications, for example NextJS.
• Experience in scaling React-based platforms across multiple teams, with shared components, tooling and standards.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to scale up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies.
• Best-in-class compensation, including equity.
• Hybrid work model: work from home Monday and Friday, in-office Tuesday-Thursday in London.
• In-house chefs prepare fresh, healthy lunches in the office Tuesday-Thursday.
• Private health insurance coverage for well-being.
• Inclusive and open workspace in London.

Hiring process

• A quick phone call with one of the team.
• A short coding exercise to complete in your own time.
• Onsite or Video Interview to discuss the exercise and meet the team.