Lead Frontend EngineerAbout TemboAt Tembo, we’re on a mission to make home happen — helping people buy their first home, remortgage, move up the ladder, and save smarter towards homeownership.We’re tackling one of the biggest challenges of our generation: access to homeownership. Through innovative mortgage products, affordability schemes, and savings tools like our Lifetime ISA and HomeSaver, we help people who’ve been locked out of the property ladder finally get the keys to their own place.Our work directly changes lives, every single day — and that sense of impact is what drives everything we do.We’re proud to be: 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 CapitalLearn more about our mission: RoleWe’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 DoingTechnical OwnershipOwn the frontend architecture across our mobile apps and web surfacesSet and evolve standards for code quality, structure, testing, and performanceMake pragmatic decisions around trade-offs, technical debt, and long-term maintainabilityOwn frontend release processes, including mobile app store releases and hotfixesProduct CollaborationWork extremely closely with our CPO and Lead Product Designer to shape product directionTranslate product ideas into well-scoped, deliverable technical plansAct as a strong voice for feasibility, quality, and customer impact during product discoveryQuality & ReliabilityChampion a strong testing culture (unit, integration, E2E)Ensure frontend reliability, performance, and crash-free experiencesTake responsibility for bugs, incidents, and regressions — and build systems to prevent themTeam Leadership & CoachingCoach and mentor frontend engineers, helping them grow technically and professionallyLead by example through high-quality, hands-on contributionFoster a collaborative, high-trust engineering cultureImprove team processes, delivery cadence, and developer experienceContinuous ImprovementIdentify opportunities to improve tooling, workflows, and shared frontend foundationsIntroduce better observability, monitoring, and debugging practices on the frontendKeep up with the React / React Native ecosystem and bring back what’s genuinely usefulAbout You6+ years of professional frontend experience, with deep expertise in React and React NativeProven experience owning and scaling frontend codebases in productionStrong testing mindset — you care deeply about quality and correctnessExcellent collaborator who enjoys working closely with product and designComfortable leading others while remaining hands-onExperience shipping and maintaining mobile apps in production environmentsCalm, pragmatic decision-maker who understands trade-offs in fast-moving teamsStartup mindset: you move quickly, take responsibility, and improve things rather than waiting for permissionBonus points for:Fintech or regulated-industry experienceExperience with performance optimisation, error tracking, and analyticsExperience building or contributing to design systemsFamiliarity with feature flags, A/B testing, or experiment-driven developmentWhy Join Tembo?Do genuinely meaningful work that changes people’s livesWork alongside smart, mission-driven colleagues who care deeply about customersRemote-first environment with a high degree of trust and ownershipRecently relaunched benefits package, including:Enhanced parental benefitsHealth insuranceYour birthday offAn abroad company away day (Mallorca here we come )We’re committed to diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.Sorry — no recruiters at this time.