Lead Developer

SR2 | Socially Responsible Recruitment | Certified B Corporation; Remote; GBP 75,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A mission-driven FinTech is seeking a Lead Frontend Developer to own and enhance the frontend stack across customer journeys. In this role, you'll lead and mentor a talented team to elevate the design system and craft user-friendly interfaces. Ideal candidates should have deep knowledge of modern frameworks such as React or Vue, and a strong focus on performance and accessibility. This position offers substantial autonomy and potential to significantly impact users' financial futures.

Qualifications

• Deep experience with modern frontend frameworks like React, Vue, Angular.
• Experience building scalable, reliable, production-grade interfaces.
• Ability to lead and mentor a growing team.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the frontend stack across all customer journeys.
• Lead and mentor developers to improve engineering quality.
• Evolve a modern, scalable component library and design system.

Skills

Experience with modern frontend frameworks (React, Vue, Angular)

Mentoring and leadership

API integrations

Performance and accessibility focus

Collaboration in product-focused teams

Job description

Lead Frontend Developer | Remote | £75,000-£80,000 |

We’re supporting a long standing client of ours, a mission-driven FinTech who continue with their digital evolution and we’re looking for a Lead Frontend Developer who wants to make a real impact.

This is your chance to take full ownership of a customer-facing web experience used by thousands of people building better financial futures. You’ll set the direction for the frontend stack, mentor a team of talented engineers, elevate the design system, and craft fast, accessible and beautiful user journeys that make finance feel simple.

If you love autonomy, clean design, technical leadership and solving problems that genuinely help people you’ll thrive here.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Own the entire frontend stack across all customer journeys
• Lead and mentor developers, raising the bar on engineering quality
• Evolve a modern, scalable component library & design system
• Turn ideas into polished, production-ready UI with the design team
• Champion performance, accessibility, responsive design & frontend architecture
• Partner with backend and product teams to ship seamless, integrated features
• Drive continuous improvements that make the platform faster, cleaner and more delightful to use

About You

• Has deep experience with modern frontend frameworks (React, Vue, Angular, etc.)
• Has built scalable, reliable, production-grade interfaces
• Enjoys leading, mentoring and supporting a growing team
• Works comfortably with design systems, component libraries and API integrations
• Cares deeply about performance, accessibility and creating standout user experiences
• Thrives in collaborative, product-focused engineering environments

This is a genuinely exciting chance to lead the future of a modern FinTech frontend with the space to influence, innovate, and see your work make a real difference.