Lead Front End Engineer

at  Secfix

Job Title: Lead Front End Engineer
Location: 100% Remote (within +/- 2hrs of Berlin CET or willing to relocate to Germany)

THE ROLE

We’re looking for an exceptional Engineer to take full ownership of the Front End, and the team behind it. You’ll be partnering with our CTO to drive technical direction, you’ll develop and grow a team of high-performing software engineers fostering a collaborative, high velocity engineering culture, and you’ll pave the way for our post-Series A expansion.
This is a truly exciting opportunity for someone to build the Engineering foundations of a successful early-stage startup. Every feature that is being ideated will go through you, and every future front-end engineer hire will live the engineering values that you will shape with us and live by.
Initially, this role will be 90% individual contribution (IC) and 10% management. However, we anticipate the management aspect growing to 40% within approximately 6-12 months, with the potential for this to increase as we scale.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• As above, this role will be 90% individual contribution (IC) and 10% management. However, we anticipate the management aspect growing to 40% within approximately 6-12 months, with the potential for this to increase as we scale.
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  You’ll be the go-to person for all things ‘Front End,’ taking full ownership and collaborating with the CTO to set technical direction. Working closely with product and design teams, you’ll shape and design features for both new and existing products.
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  Your main responsibilities on the individual contributor side will include designing, developing, and maintaining user-facing features using Angular and TypeScript, with a focus on creating visually stunning and scalable UI components. Additionally, you’ll improve the frontend architecture, prioritising pragmatic solutions suited to our current development stage.
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  On the management side, you’ll spearhead hiring - working with our Head of People to scale a first-class engineering team. You’ll develop the existing team, conducting 1:1s, providing mentorship, and enabling a culture of continuous learning and collaboration. You’ll ensure clean code through extensive code reviews. You’ll establish and promote Secfix engineering culture.

At all times you’ll live by and champion, our values:

• We are obsessed with our customers.
• We build smart.
• We create trust.
• We are hacky.
• We take ownership.
• We are leaders of remote.

You thrive in the startup world, having gained experience in this fast paced, agile environment, ideally as an early engineer in a startup. You’ll recognise the need for flexibility and a hands-on approach. You don’t wait for a product manager to create a ticket, you pick it up yourself, fix it, test it, and then mentor others to do it better.

• You’re passionate about sharing knowledge and championing new technologies