Senior Front-End Engineer – Fintech Platform

Emerge Group; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Emerge Group in New Zealand is seeking a Senior Web Engineer to own the customer-facing web app, internal tools and embedded widgets, shaping web front-end with strong architecture.

You will work with product, design, mobile and backend teams, using React and TypeScript, and apply AI tools to move faster while maintaining quality. This is a growth-focused role as Emerge expands its product suite in NZ.

Qualifications

• Extensive front-end experience with React and TypeScript.
• Experience owning customer-facing web products or widgets.
• Proficiency with component testing and end-to-end testing.
• Ability to set technical direction and raise standards.

Responsibilities

• Own customer-facing web products and embedded widgets.
• Lead front-end architecture across libraries, tokens, state, routing and testing.
• Deliver dashboards, onboarding flows and identity/workflow tools.
• Collaborate with backend on REST APIs and related services.
• Use AI coding tools thoughtfully while maintaining quality.
• Raise web engineering standards through reviews and pair programming.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Front-end architecture

Testing (Jest/Vitest/Playwright/Cyrus)

AI coding tools

UI/UX collaboration

Tools

Kotlin

Java

Spring Boot

PostgreSQL

AWS

REST APIs

Job description

Emerge Group in New Zealand is seeking a Senior Web Engineer to own the customer-facing web app, internal tools and embedded widgets, shaping web front-end with strong architecture.

You will work with product, design, mobile and backend teams, using React and TypeScript, and apply AI tools to move faster while maintaining quality. This is a growth-focused role as Emerge expands its product suite in NZ.