Staff Frontend Tech Lead – Full-Stack Architect (Hybrid)

Br Dge; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - GBP 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading FinTech company in Edinburgh seeks a Staff Engineer to drive technical excellence across web products. The role involves hands-on technical ownership, leading architectural decisions, and mentoring engineers. Candidates should have experience with Node.js and React, strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to influence best practices. This position offers flexible and remote working options along with extensive benefits including 33 days of holiday and family healthcare.

Benefits

Flexible and remote working

Remote working allowance

33 days holiday including public holidays

Your birthday as a day off

Family healthcare

Life insurance

Employee assistance programme

Investment in your learning and development

Qualifications

• Proven experience as Technical Lead or Senior/Staff Engineer.
• Strong understanding of backend and frontend integration.
• Excellent communication and ability to explain complex topics.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical vision and design of new features.
• Lead technical decision-making and resolve engineering challenges.
• Mentor and coach engineers to enhance their skills.

Skills

Node.js frameworks (Express, Koa, NestJS)

React

TypeScript

Testing frameworks (Jest, Cypress, Mocha)

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

A leading FinTech company in Edinburgh seeks a Staff Engineer to drive technical excellence across web products. The role involves hands-on technical ownership, leading architectural decisions, and mentoring engineers. Candidates should have experience with Node.js and React, strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to influence best practices. This position offers flexible and remote working options along with extensive benefits including 33 days of holiday and family healthcare.