About us
iLex is a rapidly growing next-gen B2B SaaS fintech start-up headquartered in Singapore, with operations in Hong Kong, London, and Sophia Antipolis. iLex integrates on a single platform access to global loan markets and a large network of investors, primary and secondary deal sites, advanced investor intelligence and market analytics for banks, debt advisors and institutional lenders.
iLex’s vision is to drive liquidity, efficiency, transparency, and security in loan capital markets. In collaboration with the industry, iLex builds cutting-edge solutions across the loan value chain to create more resilient and efficient loan markets. By doing so, we actively contribute to providing better access to financing opportunities for all businesses and projects, advancing global growth and progress.
About the role
We are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to join our team in Sophia Antipolis. As an integral member of the Engineering team and working closely with the Product team, you’ll be responsible for designing, improving, and maintaining our frontend architecture and the codebase.
Our stack
- React 18, TypeScript, React Router
- Redux with thunks, Axios
- AG Grid Enterprise for complex tables
- styled-components, MUI styled engine
- React Hook Form (+ resolvers)
- Lexical for rich text
- Vite, ESLint, Prettier, Husky/lint-staged
- Sentry for monitoring
You will:
- Design, build and maintain a scalable frontend for the iLex electronic market & trading platform
- Develop user facing frontend features that include trading workflows, smart analytics and dashboards using React ecosystem
- Translate wireframes into a high-quality reusable component library to create business value and enhance user experience
- Ship enhancements and fix bugs across an existing codebase
- Build data-heavy views: tables, grouping, filtering, dashboards
- Capture platform activity data and develop platform monitoring tools to adapt features to user behaviours
- Integrate with multiple backend services and APIs
- Add and maintain automated UI tests (e.g., Cypress)
What we look for:
Must haves:
- 8+ years building modern web apps with TypeScript, JavaScript, React, CSS, HTML5, DOM
- Strong grasp of React fundamentals (hooks, state, rendering, composition)
- Hands-on experience with:
- State management (Redux; thunks or similar async patterns)
- Styling (Material UI, styled-components, or Sass)
- RESTful APIs and Axios/fetch
- Git/GitHub workflows
- Comfortable owning features end to end: design handoff, implementation, testing, and iteration
Nice to have:
- Experience with complex data grids or enterprise tables (e.g., AG Grid)
- SSR experience (Next.js) and performance tuning
- Data visualization experience (D3 or similar)
- Familiarity with rich text editors (e.g., Lexical)
- Interest in container platforms (Kubernetes)
- Cloud experience (AWS)
- Exposure to monitoring/observability and error tracking
Who you are
We are a lean team and as we continue to grow, maintaining our company culture and living by our values is key, so it’s important to us that you display:
- Transparency – effectively communicate in good times and bad times
- Simplicity – be focused and straightforward
- Impact – spend time where it matters to get results
- Commitment – take initiative, do what you say, and stick with the journey
- Challenge – be curious and take feedback to continuously improve
- Goodwill – appreciate your team and colleagues
You should also be keen on working in a fast paced, quickly scaling, start-up environment. If you are motivated and results-focused, we’d like to meet you.
What we offer
- Competitive salary
- Flexible leave structure
- Flexible working arrangements so you can work from office, from home and from anywhere
- Annual allowance for health & wellbeing including access to corporate medical and dental insurance plan
- Annual allowance for learning & development
- Great career development in a fast-paced environment
- Regular company social events
- Being part of a team of seasoned professionals providing revolutionary solutions to the market
- Being part of a fintech pioneer with opportunities to grow with us in APAC, EMEA and beyond
iLex is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.