Lead Frontend Engineer
Hands-on lead for FINN's frontend team, building web and mobile user-facing products with Angular, Ionic, and TypeScript for its earned-wage-access fintech platform. Sets technical direction, mentors engineers, and ships features while working remotely with EMEA/APJ timezone overlap.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Singapore
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Lead
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Frontend
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Proven track record shipping complex user-facing products (web + mobile ideal)
- Strong product instincts; pushes 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: turning rough problems into shipped solutions
- Pragmatic judgment on architecture vs. shipping and learning
- Treats AI/LLMs as a force multiplier and actively helps the team get better at using them
Nice to have
- Angular + Ionic experience (strong engineers from React, Vue, or other modern frameworks ramp quickly)
Full description
Lead Frontend Engineer (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)