Front End Engineer

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Front End Engineer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Contract
Department: Engineering
Reports To: Technical Lead

About the Deparment

• Our Engineering team builds the technology powering customer onboarding, digital lending, payments, account management, and internal banking operations. We value engineering excellence, product thinking, and collaboration, and we’re looking for engineers who enjoy solving meaningful problems while building software that customers trust.

About the Role

• This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys hands-on development, writes clean and maintainable code, takes ownership of their work, and is passionate about building products that solve real customer problems.
• We are seeking a Frontend Engineer to join our Engineering team and contribute to building secure, scalable, and intuitive financial products.
• You’ll be responsible for implementing new features, improving existing experiences, and maintaining frontend applications that meet the security, performance, accessibility, and reliability standards expected of a regulated financial institution.
• In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with Product Managers, UI/UX Designers, Backend Engineers, and QA Engineers to deliver high-quality user experiences across our customer-facing applications and internal platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain technical documentation and contribute to continuous improvements in development workflows and engineering practices.
• Debug and resolve production issues while proactively identifying opportunities to improve application stability and performance.
• Develop reusable, maintainable, and well-tested frontend components using modern React and TypeScript practices.
• Integrate secure RESTful APIs and work closely with backend engineers to ensure reliable application behaviour.
• Contribute to improving frontend architecture, code quality, testing practices, and engineering standards through code reviews and technical discussions.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, Backend Engineers, and QA Engineers to translate business requirements into intuitive, scalable user experiences.
• Ensure frontend implementations meet performance, accessibility, security, and responsiveness standards across supported browsers and devices.
• Build and maintain frontend applications supporting customer onboarding, digital lending, payments, account management, and internal operational platforms.

Requirements

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills with the ability to work independently and take ownership of deliverables.
• Experience writing automated tests using modern frontend testing frameworks (Jest, RTL, Cypress/Playwright) and maintaining reliable test coverage.
• Proven experience leveraging LLMs and AI development tools to improve engineering productivity, software quality, and development workflows.
• Experience integrating RESTful APIs and collaborating effectively with backend engineering teams.
• Strong expertise in React, TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), and modern frontend development principles.
• Strong understanding of component-based architecture, state management (Redux Toolkit/Zustand), rendering strategies, and frontend application design.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience working within Agile software development environments using Git-based workflows.
• Deep understanding of secure coding practices for frontend applications, including authentication, authorization, data protection, and common web security vulnerabilities.
• Strong understanding of frontend performance optimization, debugging, monitoring, and browser developer tools.
• 3–6+ years of professional frontend engineering experience building production web applications.

What Success Looks Like

• Deliver high-quality features that meet product and engineering standards.
• Maintain excellent application performance, reliability, and user experience.
• Collaborate effectively across engineering, product, and design teams to deliver customer-focused solutions.
• Contribute to improving engineering quality through testing, code reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Build scalable, maintainable, and reusable frontend components.

Why Join Us

• Modern engineering practices with a strong culture of ownership, learning, and continuous improvement.
• Work alongside a collaborative, cross-functional team focused on engineering excellence.
• Competitive compensation and opportunities for professional growth.
• Opportunity to solve challenging problems within digital banking and lending.
• Build products that directly impact the financial lives of individuals and businesses.