Lead Front-End Engineer (up to £175k)

Dex; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Dex is seeking a Lead Front-End Engineer to own the front-end craft across the product, shaping patterns and guidelines used by engineers including AI-assisted tooling. You will set rules for how UI interacts with AI agents and ensure quality scales with a rapidly growing company.

This is a rare seat to influence the how, not just the what. You will drive front-end architecture, establish guidelines, and mentor engineers while collaborating with product and design to deliver high-performance

Qualifications

• Strong TypeScript expertise and deep understanding of front-end fundamentals.
• Experience with multiple front-end frameworks and the trade-offs between them.
• Proven ability to diagnose performance bottlenecks and drive improvements.

Responsibilities

• Define and evangelize front-end architectural patterns across a full-stack team.
• Establish UI/UX guidelines and component libraries for consistent interfaces.
• Drive performance engineering initiatives across the product.
• Collaborate with product and design to translate complex workflows into high-performance experiences.
• Mentor engineers on front-end fundamentals and framework trade-offs.

Skills

TypeScript

Front-end frameworks

Performance engineering

Architecture & design

Mentoring

Tools

React

Next.js

Angular

UI libraries

Job description

This role is with one of Dex's trusted partner companies. We work closely with their teams to truly understand their culture, goals, and what they're looking for, so we can match you with the right opportunity and give you context about the role before you commit to a process.

The role

This company builds AI agents that automate complex financial workflows, generating client-ready documents 20x faster than traditional methods. They're transforming how major financial institutions operate, backed by leading investors in one of the largest Series A rounds in the sector. They are one of the fastest-growing enterprise AI platforms globally. This isn't a feature-shipping role. As a Lead Front-End Engineer, you'll own the front-end craft across the entire product, defining the patterns and guidelines that every engineer — even those working on agentic tooling — codes against. You'll set the rules for how AI agents interact with the UI, ensuring quality scales at the pace of a rapidly growing company. This is a rare seat for someone who wants to shape the how, not just the what.

The work

• Define and evangelize front-end architectural patterns and best practices across a full-stack engineering team.
• Establish the UI/UX guidelines and component libraries that ensure consistency and quality for both human-coded and AI-generated interfaces.
• Drive performance engineering initiatives, identifying root causes of slowness and implementing systemic solutions.
• Collaborate with product and design to translate complex financial workflows into intuitive, high-performance user experiences.
• Mentor engineers on front-end fundamentals, advanced techniques, and the trade-offs of different frameworks and tools.

What You Bring

• Deep front-end fundamentals; you understand what's happening under the hood, beyond just framework-specific knowledge.
• Proven experience with multiple front-end frameworks and tools, able to articulate their trade-offs.
• Strong performance engineering instincts, with a track record of diagnosing and solving complex performance bottlenecks.
• Exceptional architecture and systems design judgment for scalable, maintainable front-end applications.
• Expert-level TypeScript experience.

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