[Hiring] Lead Software Engineer @FINN

Role Description

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.

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.

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

• You aren’t comfortable with some level of 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.

Benefits

• 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.