Lead Software Engineer - Frontend

Lead Software Engineer - Frontend (Product Engineering)
Remote
Eastern Hemisphere (timezone overlap required)
FINN is a fintech company building simple and transparent products that improve financial well-being for underbanked employees. Our core offering gives people access to wages they have already earned, alongside tools to help them manage money better, build savings, access insurance, earn additional income, and use fairer financial services.
Founded in 2022, FINN is the largest player in the early wage access space in Southeast Asia and is expanding rapidly into new markets globally. We are looking for ambitious builders who take ownership, move fast, and want to shape products that create meaningful impact in people’s lives.
This is a high-ownership role. You'll report to the VP of Engineering and lead our frontend team (currently 3, scaling to 5+). You'll shape technical direction, ship product, and raise the bar, not manage from a distance.
We're giving you significant responsibility and expecting you to run with it.
What you'll do
Own the frontend experience end-to-end across web and mobile (Angular + Ionic) from problem shaping through production
Drive complex features: dig into the problem, design the approach, ship fast, and iterate based on real usage
Set and evolve technical direction, architecture, patterns, tooling, and developer experience
Partner with product and design to define solutions, not just execute specs
Write a lot of code , this is a hands-on role first, leadership second
Mentor engineers and build a team culture of quality, speed, and ownership
How we work
We're a small team that values clear thinking over heavy process. Engineers get real context on the "why" and autonomy on the "how." We ship frequently, learn from production, and make pragmatic tradeoffs. We plan enough to move confidently but never so much that we slow down.
AI in our workflow
AI is becoming core to how we build. We use LLMs daily for coding, debugging, automated code reviews, design doc reviews, and we're building internal tooling to push this further in and out of the Engineering team. We're looking for someone who treats AI as a force multiplier and actively helps the team get meaningfully better at it, not just a passive user.
What we're looking for
Proven track record shipping complex user-facing products (web + mobile ideal)
Strong product instincts, you push back when something doesn't feel right for the user
Deep TypeScript fundamentals (component architecture, state management, performance)
Experience mentoring engineers and setting team standards
Comfort with ambiguity: you can take a rough problem and turn it into a shipped solution
Pragmatic judgment on architecture vs. shipping and learning
Our stack is Angular + Ionic. Strong engineers from React, Vue, or other modern frameworks ramp quickly, we care more about fundamentals than specific framework experience.
This role probably isn't for you if
You aren’t comfortable with some level of ambiguity ambiguity
You default to large rewrites when the problem needs solving in days
You optimize for architectural purity over learning from real users
You need a lot of structure or guidance to do your best work
Why join
Your work directly shapes the product experience for hundreds of thousands of users
Small, high-caliber team, minimal bureaucracy, fast feedback loops, clear business impact
Real ownership and technical leadership as we scale internationally
A seat at the table in defining how frontend engineering evolves here
Location: #EMEA #APJ

Work arrangement
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