Lead Frontend Engineer
Tembo
- Southampton, England, United Kingdom
- Southampton, England, United Kingdom
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4.9-rated on Trustpilot , with every review celebrated Well funded
by Goodwater Capital, Aviva, McPike Family Global Office, Ascension, Love Ventures, and ethical backers including Fair by Design, Barrow Cadbury, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and Big Society Capital Learn more about our mission: https://www.tembomoney.com/our-mission The Role We’re looking for a Frontend Lead Engineer to own and evolve our web and app experiences. This is a senior, hands-on engineering leadership role. You’ll take ownership of our frontend codebases, principles, and delivery — while working insanely closely with product and design to ship high-quality, customer-critical features. Our primary app codebases are
React Native , with
React and Next.js
used across the wider organisation. You’ll be a key technical leader in the business, setting the bar for quality, collaboration, and reliability in a product that handles real money and real lives. What You’ll Be Doing Technical Ownership Own the frontend architecture across our mobile apps and web surfaces Set and evolve standards for code quality, structure, testing, and performance Make pragmatic decisions around trade-offs, technical debt, and long-term maintainability Own frontend release processes, including mobile app store releases and hotfixes Work extremely closely with our CPO and Lead Product Designer to shape product direction Translate product ideas into well-scoped, deliverable technical plans Act as a strong voice for feasibility, quality, and customer impact during product discovery Quality & Reliability Champion a strong testing culture (unit, integration, E2E) Ensure frontend reliability, performance, and crash-free experiences Take responsibility for bugs, incidents, and regressions — and build systems to prevent them Team Leadership & Coaching Coach and mentor frontend engineers, helping them grow technically and professionally Lead by example through high-quality, hands-on contribution Foster a collaborative, high-trust engineering culture Improve team processes, delivery cadence, and developer experience Identify opportunities to improve tooling, workflows, and shared frontend foundations Introduce better observability, monitoring, and debugging practices on the frontend Keep up with the React / React Native ecosystem and bring back what’s genuinely useful About You 6+ years of professional frontend experience, with deep expertise in
React and React Native Proven experience owning and scaling frontend codebases in production Strong testing mindset — you care deeply about quality and correctness Excellent collaborator who enjoys working closely with product and design Comfortable leading others while remaining hands-on Experience shipping and maintaining mobile apps in production environments Calm, pragmatic decision-maker who understands trade-offs in fast-moving teams Startup mindset: you move quickly, take responsibility, and improve things rather than waiting for permission Fintech or regulated-industry experience Experience with performance optimisation, error tracking, and analytics Experience building or contributing to design systems Familiarity with feature flags, A/B testing, or experiment-driven development Why Join Tembo? Do genuinely meaningful work that changes people’s lives Work alongside smart, mission-driven colleagues who care deeply about customers Remote-first environment with a high degree of trust and ownership Recently relaunched benefits package, including: Enhanced parental benefits Health insurance Your birthday off We’re committed to diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Sorry — no recruiters at this time. Create a job alert for this search
Lead Frontend Engineer • Southampton, UK
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- English
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