Aku is a funded and fully licensed payment-led digital bank on a mission to disrupt cash and drive financial inclusion one mobile device at a time. We are dedicated to leveraging innovative technology to disrupt traditional banking and payment systems.
About the Role
Aku is looking for a Lead Frontend Engineer who will manage the development of responsive, user friendly web applications at Aku. Aku is looking for a Lead Frontend Engineer who will play a pivotal role in enhancing user experience. By implementing visual and interactive elements that users engage with through our web browser when using a web application and on any mobile device.
Job Description
• Design overall frontend architecture of web and mobile applications.
• Utilize a variety of markup languages to write web pages.
• Maintain code integrity and organization; write clean code which is well-tested and well-documented.
• Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure code quality, adherence to coding standards, and security best practices.
• Build reusable code and libraries.
• Take a high level of ownership and responsibility for the work that you do.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, such as product managers and designers, to align technical decisions with business objectives.
• Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features.
• Communicate engineering strategy and status updates transparently and effectively to stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Make trade-offs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation.
• Mentor juniors and organize training sessions or workshops to share best practices and new technologies with the team.
• Maintain quality and responsiveness of applications.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Assist backend engineers with coding and troubleshooting.
• Developing features to enhance user experience on web and mobile applications.
• Ensure that all user input is validated before submitting to the backend.
• Develop web applications that are cross-browser compatible.
• Strike an excellent balance between functional and aesthetic design.
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
Requirements
• Solid experience in complex software projects with end-to-end ownership
• Strong professional background (5+ years) in our technology stack: Typescript, ReactJS, Webpack, Next.js
• Ability to write clean, testable, maintainable, and well-documented code and treat security as a first-class citizen.
• Proficiency in agile methodologies, continuous integration and deployment, test automation, cloud-based infrastructure, and tooling
• Analytical proficiency, both in the technical and in the product domain
• Ability to think outside the box and to work independently.
• Excellent communication skills that are clear, concise, and targeted towards your audience - engineering, product, or other stakeholders
• Plus: Experience with other UI engineering technologies
• Plus: Prior experience working in fintech (Lending, Savings, Payments, VAS)