Front-End Lead Software Engineer
About Us
Altify is a London-headquartered fintech with a global team across the UK, Europe, and South Africa (FSP No. 5272 and 53289). The business is backed by leading VC and Angel investors.
Altify's grown to serve over 80,000 clients and was named KPMG's Tech Innovator of the Year for Southern Africa in 2025.
The fintech operates through three divisions.
- App Brokerage: A mobile app and web platform that makes accessing the world's most valuable onchain alternative investments as simple as buying shares. AI is embedded into the core user experience to act as an investing assistant — supporting clients build wealth more intelligently.
- Institutional Trading Division: Offering bespoke OTC brokerage, market-making, and stablecoin minting services to licensed financial service providers, HNWIs, and FX desks.
- Licensing-as-a-Service: We provide regulatory licensing umbrella coverage to international fintechs enabling them to accelerate their market entry into South Africa.
Position Summary
We're looking for a Front-End Lead Software Engineer to own the front end of Altify's web and mobile apps, and lead the team that builds them. You'll report directly to the CTO and make sure every client-facing experience is best in class, built to current best practice, and stable in production. This is a hands-on lead role for someone who still writes code every week.
Your Core Focus
- Owning the front-end development, delivery, maintenance, and quality of Altify's client-facing software.
- Leading front-end architecture and system design, including standards for reusable code, tooling, source control, and deployment.
- Writing clean, well-tested, well-documented code, and building reusable core libraries the team can share.
- Leading and growing a team of developers — recruitment, 1-on-1s, reviews, feedback, and career development.
- Running peer code reviews and code audits, and making sure tech debt is tracked and addressed.
- Planning sprints with the CTO and making sure deadlines are met at the quality we expect.
- Sharing joint responsibility with the CTO for the availability and health of the production platform, including how incidents are prioritised and managed.
- Working with product, design, and external partners to understand, define, and shape projects from inception to delivery.
You'll thrive here if you're fintech-obsessed, have forensic attention to detail, and are ready to take full ownership of your role.
Qualifications, Work Experience, and Skills
Required
- More than 5 years as a front-end engineer, with React and React Native experience.
- Prior experience as a lead software engineer or lead architect.
- Expert proficiency in React, React Native, TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3, and in mobile and web development best practice.
- Expert proficiency with utility-based CSS frameworks such as Tailwind CSS.
- Experience with common front-end tools such as Babel, Webpack, and npm.
- Experience with source control and CI/CD environments (ex: Git and Azure Pipelines).
- Experience with automated testing, debugging, performance profiling, and optimisation.
- Experience with front-end architecture patterns, including micro front-ends, PWAs, service workers, and isomorphic React.
- Knowledge of modern authorisation mechanisms such as JSON Web Tokens.
- Experience with agile and scrum delivery.
- Forensic attention to detail, and a strong drive to improve solutions, systems, and processes.
- A clear communicator who can lead, coach, and persuade, and who's comfortable in a small team as well as working independently.
Preferred
- Financial or investment knowledge, including the related database and process design.
- A genuine interest in fintech, digital assets, and blockchain.
Perks & Benefits
- Top-quartile compensation.
- Fully remote work flexibility.
- A budget for your home office setup.
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