Frontend Software Engineer

📝 Company Mission

Our mission is to give the world access to the best products by empowering great brands to reach their growth potential.

💼 About Wayflyer

Today's consumer brands need a capital provider that keeps pace with their growth ambitions. Traditional financing options are slow, cumbersome and often out of reach. That's why we built Wayflyer.

Our unique technology allows us to assess businesses in minutes, generate financing offers that reflect their growth potential and send funds in as little as 24 hours.

Since launching in April 2020, we've deployed over $5bn to thousands of brands worldwide, backed by Tier 1 banks like J.P. Morgan. We've become a trusted financing partner for some amazing brands, like True Classic, Little Words Project and Kekoa Foods.

Teams at Wayflyer are truly cross-functional. You'll be collaborating with ambitious colleagues from around the world - all striving to deliver on a huge opportunity. Check out this video to hear directly from them.

We are looking for a Frontend Engineer who can design and deliver complex solutions while providing technical leadership within their team. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in TypeScript and React, with the ability to mentor others and drive technical decisions that impact our customer-facing applications.

💛 Culture & Values at Wayflyer

At Wayflyer, we value being sound people, excellent operators, and ambitious overachievers, working together with integrity, creativity, and bold optimism to deliver exceptional results. To learn more, please visit our website.

🚀 Your Role at a Glance: The key ways you'll bring value to the team

• Lead the design and implementation of complex frontend features using TypeScript and React, ensuring high-quality, reusable components that scale across our financial products

• Provide technical leadership in architectural decisions and establish best practices for frontend development

• Partner with product and design teams to define and implement intuitive interfaces that help ecommerce brands access and manage their funding

• Drive improvements in performance, accessibility, and user experience across our platform

• Mentor junior developers and conduct thorough code reviews to maintain high code quality standards

• Collaborate with backend teams to design and implement robust API integrations

• Lead technical discussions and contribute to the team's technical strategy

• Identify and proactively address technical debt and system scalability challenges

🔨 What Makes You a Great Fit

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience

• 5+ years of professional experience in software development, with deep expertise in frontend development

• Advanced proficiency in TypeScript and extensive experience with React and modern frontend architectures

• Expert knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript fundamentals with a focus on performance optimisation

• Strong experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and managing complex state

• Solid understanding of Python and Django, with the ability to mentor others

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and maintaining high-quality testing practices

• Proven track record of leading technical initiatives and mentoring junior developers

• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to break down complex problems

• Excellent communication abilities and experience managing stakeholder relationships

What is important to point out is that you can do most or all of the above mentioned and can point to your real experience doing it. You've probably done it at companies of different shapes, sizes and industries. Given what we do, experience in financial services, fintech and business-to-business organisations is particularly interesting to us.

You should be comfortable making and defending technical decisions, while remaining open to feedback and alternative approache