Principal Frontend Engineer - Growing Start Up - London (Hybrid)

Principal Frontend Engineer - Vue.js- Growing start up - London (Hybrid)

The Job

We're looking for a Principal Frontend Engineer to join a well-backed start-up. You'll help design and build scalable systems from the ground up. This is a hands-on leadership role that blends architecture with active development, giving you ownership of how things are structured and delivered. You'll be working with modern tooling, including AI-assisted approaches to building and iterating on systems. The focus is on strong engineering fundamentals, writing code, shaping architecture, and continuously improving how products are built and scaled.

About you

• You are a highly experienced engineer , bringing strong architectural knowledge and a genuine passion for building well-designed, scalable systems.


• You've likely played a key role in shaping technical direction and take pride in delivering high-quality solutions.


• You're an experienced Lead/Principal Frontend Engineer. You will have strong hands-on experience with: Vue.js / Typescript /API's/Node.js/React


• You're keen to implement AI - assisted approaches within your development.


• You'll be naturally proactive and an excellent communicator.


• You enjoy ownership and want to help shape engineering standards, architecture and product direction.


• You will be confident working independently, but equally comfortable collaborating as part of a team to deliver impactful outcomes.


• You will stand out if you have experience in fast-paced start-up environments, fintech, real-time consumer platforms or high-availability environments.

The Company

This business is a brand-new fast-growing, and well-backed pre-seed-funding start-up founded by an experienced leadership team with highly ambitious international growth plans. They currently operate from London and Malta, with London becoming the long-term technology and marketing hub. The company is still intentionally small and highly collaborative, with around 10-11 employees in the UK and a further team in Malta...Their vision is to build world-class internal technology capability as they scale globally across multiple regulated markets.

Why You Should Do This Job

• Early-stage opportunity with genuine ownership and influence.


• Direct access to founders and strategic technical decision-making.


• Genuine Technical Leadership


• International product scaling across multiple markets.


• Strong engineering culture focused on collaboration and continuous learning.


• Opportunity to move from outsourced delivery towards building an elite in-house engineering capability.


• Fast-moving start-up environment without excessive bureaucracy.

Salary + Package

Location

Hybrid working with flexibility expected. The long-term technology hub will be based in London.