Lead Frontend Developer

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.