Staff Frontend Engineer

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Office, Lilongwe, Central Region
In-Office
Senior level
Fintech • Software • Financial Services
Through our API, financial service companies can access their small business customers' financial data more efficiently.
The Role
As a Staff Frontend Engineer, you will mentor engineers, drive technical strategy, ensure code quality, and lead product development with a focus on user experience and integration.
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What we do at Codat

Codat helps banks create stronger, data-driven relationships with their business customers. Our platform makes it easy for banks to access, synchronize, and interpret data from customers' financial software, enabling critical use cases such as supplier onboarding for commercial card and virtual card programs, and underwriting business loans.

We empower the world's largest banks to grow share of wallet, reduce churn, and scale operations efficiently. Codat is backed by leading investors, including JP Morgan, Canapi Ventures, Shopify, Plaid, Tiger Global, PayPal Ventures, Index Ventures, and American Express Ventures.

Who We Need, and Why?

We are looking for a highly experienced and product-minded Frontend Engineer with a deep specialisation in frontend systems. You will be a technical leader and a mentor, playing a pivotal role in shaping our product vision and technical direction while driving the delivery of high-quality, user-friendly applications.

You will be the go-to frontend subject matter expert (SME), significantly contributing to our technology stack and best practices, and fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement. While your primary focus will be on the frontend, you'll also have a strong understanding of full-stack systems, from data flow to deployment, ensuring seamless integration and performance.

The Role

As a Staff Engineer you will be a hands-on leader, balancing frontend specialisation with an understanding of the full stack. Your experience will cover:

  • Technical Leader & Mentor: You are passionate about mentoring and elevating the technical capabilities of the team. You will act as a technical mentor to other engineers, sharing your expertise and guiding them in best practices for frontend architecture, development, and support

  • Strategic & Tactical: You can balance big-picture vision with hands-on execution. You're action-oriented and eager to take ownership of projects and initiatives

  • Driving Technical Strategy: You will contribute significantly to team discussions, helping to solve complex technical challenges, and proactively identifying opportunities to improve our frontend technology stack and engineering practices. You will influence our technical roadmap and architectural decisions, bringing innovative solutions and staying at the forefront of modern technologies and frameworks

  • Product Ownership: You will take a leading role in designing, developing, and supporting impactful projects, ensuring seamless user experiences with observability baked in. You will champion a strong product mindset with a keen eye for user experience and system design

  • Obsessed with Quality: You are passionate about code quality, maintainability, observability, and best practices across the platform

  • Proactive & Collaborative: You have a proactive approach to problem-solving and can effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical team members

  • Balancing Speed & Quality: You are comfortable working in a fast-paced, startup-like environment, balancing speed and quality while demonstrating a strong desire for ownership to deliver high-quality solutions efficiently

  • Team Player: You foster effective collaboration between engineering teams and stakeholders, ensuring alignment and seamless handoffs

  • Leveraging AI: You are enthusiastic about leveraging current and new AI solutions to streamline operations and maximize output, staying at the forefront of changes in AI tools to enhance your role and productivity

What You’ll Bring to the Team

  • Demonstrated experience in mentoring engineers of all levels and leading technical initiatives

  • Extensive experience as a frontend subject matter expert, with deep proficiency in React and TypeScript. Experience with Svelte would be a plus

  • A proven track record of building and optimising performant, accessible, and responsive web applications

  • A strong understanding of how data flows through a full-stack system, from the API to the user interface

  • Deep knowledge of UI/UX best practices and creating great user experiences

  • Significant familiarity with site reliability engineering (SRE) principles as they apply to frontend applications, including a strong understanding of modern build tools, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-based deployment processes

  • Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes (K8s)

  • Extensive experience with testing frameworks for both frontend and backend (e.g., Jest/Vitest, React Testing Library, Cypress)

  • Strong awareness of security best practices

  • A degree in Computer Science or a similar field is preferred

Top Skills

Cypress
Docker
Jest
Kubernetes
React
React Testing Library
Site Reliability Engineering
Svelte
Typescript
Vitest
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The Company
HQ: London
211 Employees
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

Our mission is to make life easier for the lifeblood of economies globally; small and medium-sized businesses. Codat is a universal API for consented business financial data, powering the next generation of products and services for this historically underserved market. We have offices in London, New York, San Francisco, and Sydney. We are a privately held company, and have recently closed our Series B funding and are funded by Index Ventures, Tiger Global, American Express, PayPal and a line-up of world class angel investors.

Why Work With Us

We are a people-first company that not only values our relationships with our clients and partners, but our internal employees as well. We promote from within and pride ourselves on creating a diverse, yet inclusive environment where we can collaborate, create, strategize, and grow together. We work hard, play hard, and win big.

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