Senior Frontend Engineer — Scale Team (React/TS)

Airwallex; London (KY); On-site; USD 93,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

Airwallex in London is seeking a frontend engineer to own user-facing experiences across the Scale team. You will design, implement, and maintain high-quality frontends, collaborating with backend, product, and design teams to translate requirements into reliable solutions.

You will work from our London office three days a week, with a bias toward pragmatic, scalable architecture and production-grade delivery in a fast-paced fintech environment.

Qualifications

• Strong experience building frontend applications with ReactJS.
• Experience with modern JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Experience working across the full stack, with the ability to own frontend work end to end.
• A track record of working independently and delivering high-quality software with minimal oversight.
• The ability to make pragmatic technical decisions in ambiguous situations.
• Clear communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Make pragmatic decisions on when to optimize for performance vs. velocity based on business impact.
• Thrive in cross-functional environments spanning Product, Design, Compliance, and Sales.
• Design for scale, maintainability, and production excellence.

Responsibilities

• Own the frontend work for the Scale team, taking responsibility for the design, implementation, and ongoing quality of user-facing experiences across our platform products.
• You'll work independently on ambiguous problems, partnering with backend engineers, Product, Design, and other stakeholders to turn customer and business requirements into reliable, maintainable solutions.
• Build and maintain frontend experiences across the stack, with particular ownership and depth in React-based development
• Deliver reliable, maintainable solutions for multi-tenant platforms, enterprise integrations, and cross-domain product features
• Partner with backend engineers, Product, Design, and other stakeholders to turn customer and business requirements into effective technical solutions
• Make pragmatic decisions in ambiguous situations, balancing flexibility, simplicity, and maintainability in system and component design
• You'll work from our London office three days a week.

Skills

ReactJS

JavaScript/TypeScript

Full stack

Independent delivery

Pragmatic decisions

Communication

Performance vs velocity

Cross-functional

Design for scale

Production excellence

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kafka

AWS/GCP/Azure

OAuth2.0

API design

Developer documentation

Job description

Airwallex in London is seeking a frontend engineer to own user-facing experiences across the Scale team. You will design, implement, and maintain high-quality frontends, collaborating with backend, product, and design teams to translate requirements into reliable solutions.

You will work from our London office three days a week, with a bias toward pragmatic, scalable architecture and production-grade delivery in a fast-paced fintech environment.