Lead Svelte Software Engineer

🏢 About Array

Array is a high-growth financial technology platform that empowers digital brands, commercial institutions, and fintechs to launch compelling consumer-facing financial products with speed and precision. The platform provides a suite of embeddable credit monitoring tools, identity theft protection, and personalized financial marketplaces via customizable UI widgets and clean, modern APIs.

As a remote-first organization, Array prioritizes high-impact engineering, rapid experimentation, and technical autonomy, delivering solutions that serve millions of daily active consumers across North America.

🎯 The Role

Array is looking for a Lead Svelte Software Engineer to help shape and elevate its frontend engineering practice. In this role, you will report to an Engineering Manager and collaborate within an agile product squad responsible for architecting and shipping production-ready, white-label Web Components built with Svelte.

This position starts as a contract role for a 180-day probationary period ($80–$100/hr) before converting to a permanent full-time position with comprehensive benefits.

🛠️ Tech Stack

• Core: Svelte, TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3
• Architecture: Web Components, Custom Elements, Shadow DOM, Embeddable Widgets
• Styling & Design Systems: Design Tokens, Theme Editors, WCAG Accessibility
• Mobile (Familiarity): Kotlin, Swift (hybrid embedding)
• APIs & Tooling: RESTful APIs, Git, Component-driven build systems

💼 What You'll Do

• Architect and build high-quality Svelte Web Components that support white-label integration and custom theme editor styling.
• Collaborate closely with Product Design to extend and evolve the design system, ensuring consistent multi-brand adaptation.
• Tackle the performance and isolation challenges of embedding frontend components into third-party desktop and mobile applications.
• Set engineering standards for modern Web Component architecture, bundle optimization, and accessible component patterns.
• Participate in an on-call rotation with your squad to guarantee high availability and reliability for mission-critical client widgets.

✅ What You'll Need

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with deep mastery of TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Hands-on expertise building production applications with modern reactive frameworks, specifically Svelte.
• 2+ years of experience engineering production Web Components for externally hosted, third-party environments.
• 4+ years of experience building embeddable UI widgets and white-label platforms with token-driven theming.
• Strong background in accessibility standards (WCAG), performance profiling, and resilient component design.

🌟 Nice to Have

• Experience interfacing with mobile application environments using Kotlin or Swift.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted developer workflows and modern build pipelines.
• Experience working with high-volume fintech platforms or security-sensitive credit and identity workflows.