Posted by Sohail Khan
Engineering Leader at FINN
“Sohail Khan posted that FINN is hiring a hands-on Frontend Lead Engineer to guide frontend architecture, ship web and mobile features, and mentor a growing squad across EMEA and APJ timezones. While the current stack is Angular + Ionic, strong experience in React or Vue translates seamlessly.”
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Remote
Remote - APAC/EMEA
Lead (7+ yrs)
Today
Quick Take
Lead frontend role at FINN heading web and mobile development across EMEA and APJ (Remote). You will steer architecture and mentor engineers using Angular, Ionic, and modern TypeScript. The hiring manager posted this directly on LinkedIn, signaling an active leadership search.
🏢 About FINN
FINN is a high-growth fintech company founded in 2022 that empowers underbanked employees across Southeast Asia and international markets with transparent financial tools. Its primary platform provides earned wage access alongside intuitive digital services for budgeting, automated savings, fair credit, and insurance.
🎯 The Role
FINN is looking for a hands-on Lead Software Engineer - Frontend reporting to the VP of Engineering. In this high-impact position, you will own the frontend experience across web and mobile applications, steer architectural evolution, and scale the frontend engineering team from 3 to 5+ engineers. This is an active coding leadership role designed for an engineer who thrives on shipping production software rapidly and learning from real user behavior.
🛠️ Tech Stack
- Frameworks & Languages: Angular, Ionic, TypeScript, JavaScript
- State Management & Patterns: RxJS, Angular Signals, Component Architecture
- Mobile & Styling: Capacitor, SCSS, CSS3
- Tooling & Workflows: Git, CI/CD, Agentic AI Engineering Tools
💼 What You'll Do
- Own the frontend experience end-to-end across web and mobile platforms from initial problem definition to production release.
- Drive architecture, component patterns, performance optimization, and developer experience across the application stack.
- Spend significant daily time writing clean, high-quality production TypeScript code.
- Scale and mentor the frontend engineering team from 3 to 5+ engineers through thoughtful code reviews and standards definition.
- Partner directly with product management and product design to shape solutions and iterate rapidly on live feedback.
- Spearhead the practical integration of AI developer tools, automated review agents, and LLM-assisted workflows across the team.
✅ What You'll Need
- Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers while shipping complex, user-facing web and mobile applications.
- Deep technical foundation in modern TypeScript, frontend architecture, state management, and web performance.
- Practical background in shipping web and hybrid mobile apps (Ionic, Capacitor, or similar ecosystems).
- Strong product intuition with a habit of challenging assumptions to protect the end-user experience.
- Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity, prioritize pragmatic delivery over theoretical perfection, and move fast.
- Residency within EMEA or APJ regions with consistent working-hours overlap in Eastern Hemisphere timezones.
🌟 Nice to Have
- Experience transitioning or cross-pollinating best practices from React or Vue into Angular and Ionic codebases.
- Hands-on background with automated mobile build and release pipelines across iOS and Android ecosystems.
- Track record of designing and rolling out internal AI tools or prompts that meaningfully improve engineering velocity.
Why This Role?
This listing comes straight from a hiring manager or recruiter post — not an ATS scrape. You can often reach out directly, and these roles move fast. The tech stack leans on Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript and more.
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