Lead Frontend Engineer – Digital Banking UI (React/AWS)

Goldman Sachs; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs is seeking a Lead Engineer to own UI front-end initiatives within Digital Engineering. You will drive design and delivery of high-impact UI components for Transaction Banking, collaborating with product owners, designers and backend engineers to ship modern, scalable interfaces.

You will mentor engineers, promote code quality and testability, and help define the product roadmap. The role requires strong communication, leadership and a passion for building consumer-grade digital

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of relevant professional experience in UI development using JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience building modern UI products using React.
• Proven ability to lead engineering teams and deliver complex products with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience architecting full-stack apps in AWS.
• Experience with high availability and blue-green deployment methodologies.
• BS or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience).

Responsibilities

• Drive design and implementation of critical UI components in the Digital Engineering stack.
• Lead a team focusing on code quality, automation and testability.
• Collaborate with backend teams and technologies to deliver integrated solutions.
• Develop talent of engineers and work directly with product owners, designers and business clients.
• Contribute to vision, define the product roadmap and build an engineering culture within the global team.
• Communicate effectively in a fast-paced, fluid environment and adapt to change.

Skills

UI development

JavaScript/TypeScript

React

Team leadership

AWS

Blue-green deployment

Education

BS in Computer Science

Tools

Node

Webpack

MobX

Redux

Spring Boot

Kafka

REST API

SQL (PostgreSQL/Oracle)

NoSQL (DynamoDB/MongoDB)

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Goldman Sachs is seeking a Lead Engineer to own UI front-end initiatives within Digital Engineering. You will drive design and delivery of high-impact UI components for Transaction Banking, collaborating with product owners, designers and backend engineers to ship modern, scalable interfaces.

You will mentor engineers, promote code quality and testability, and help define the product roadmap. The role requires strong communication, leadership and a passion for building consumer-grade digital