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Lead TypeScript Engineer - Fintech - Remote - Up to £110,000

Job description

Lead TypeScript Engineer - Fintech - Remote - Up to £110,000

We have an amazing opportunity to join one of the UK’s best Fintech companies, building out their platform and expanding their services. As the company scales and takes on more clients they are looking to expand their engineering team. They are now seeking an experienced engineer with full stack TypeScript experience to lead their Checkout team. 

THE COMPANY

The company in question are working on a new kind of payment portal linked with applications, allowing banks to communicate directly with vendors/customers in order to make purchases without the need for card details. By doing this it increases security, allows quicker transactions and also simply improves customer experience. They boast an impressive easy to use API which has cut down their customers payment times by over 85%.

THE ROLE

You will be heading straight into their core Checkout team, which currently consists of four engineers (wider dev team is 22 in total). You will be the most senior member of this squad and whilst you won't be expecting to line manage anyone immediately, the plan is to double the headcount in the team by the end of 2023 - at which point your role will become an out & out Tech Lead position.

For the time being, you'll be tasked with leading a number of projects & building out a range of complex features within a TypeScript stack. 

SKILLS

  • Excellent TypeScript Experience
  • Previous experience working with mission critical software
  • Experience as a project lead - any people management experience would be great too! 
  • The ideal candidate will preferably have some experience working within Fintech however this is not essential

Package

  • Unlimited Education Budget
  • Equity 
  • Macbook Pro
  • £500 WFH Budget

This is a fully remote role and they are accepting applicants from anywhere in Europe, where you will be employed via a third party agreement.