Front-End Engineering Lead - New York
1 day ago
Job description
Compensation: $140,000-$200,000 + Equity
About Finster AI
We're a Series A stage firm, redefining the future of finance with our AI-native research and task automation platform, backed by leading, global venture investors. Founded by a team of experts from Google DeepMind, Meta AI, and J.P. Morgan, Finster AI provides cutting-edge solutions to help finance professionals unlock unique insights with greater efficiency and accuracy. We are seeking a talented and passionate Frontend Engineering Lead to join our growing team and help shape the future of AI design principles as we continue to push the boundaries of AI in Finance.
The Role
Leadership & Strategy
- Lead and manage a team of front-end engineers, fostering growth and career development.
- Provide constructive feedback, conduct regular 1:1s, and create clear development paths for team members.
- Handle team dynamics, resolve blockers, and ensure engineers are empowered to do their best work.
- Collaborate with product, design, engineering and leadership teams to define technical priorities and align on roadmap execution.
- Set coding standards, architectural patterns, and development processes to ensure scalability and maintainability.
Technical Execution
- Build, optimize, and maintain responsive, accessible, and performant front-end applications.
- Define and implement design systems and component libraries to accelerate development and maintain UI consistency.
- Work with backend engineers to design efficient APIs and integrations.
- Stay up-to-date on emerging front-end technologies and proactively bring innovative solutions to the team.
Collaboration & Culture
- Contribute to shaping engineering culture and best practices in a fast-growing startup environment.
- Partner with designers to turn prototypes and wireframes into seamless user experiences.
- Champion quality through testing, performance optimization, and strong security practices.
Required Skills & Experience
- 8+ years of professional front-end engineering experience, with at least 2+ years in a technical leadership role with people management.
- Expertise with React, , TypeScript, and modern front-end tooling including familiarity with server-side best practices.
- Deep understanding of state management, performance optimization, and component-driven development.
- Experience leading technical discussions, setting architecture direction, and guiding engineers.
- Demonstrated experience managing, mentoring, and growing engineering teams.
- Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.
- Startup-friendly mindset: comfortable with ambiguity, rapid iteration, and wearing multiple hats.
- Excellent communication skills and an eye for detail in documentation and design.
Nice-to-Have
- Previous experience scaling engineering teams in a high-growth high-growth environment.
- Experience with data visualization frameworks (e.g., AG Grid, D3).
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and performance monitoring tools.
You Will Thrive Here if You
- Are comfortable being challenged and feel at home with ambiguity and rapid change.
- Enjoy working in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced environment where priorities can shift and new opportunities emerge quickly.
- Can work autonomously.
- Highly collaborative and are an effective communicator.
Why Finster
Impact: As an early-stage company, you'll be part of the team shaping the commercial and operational foundation of one of the most exciting AI platforms in financial services.
- Exposure: You'll work directly with senior leadership and clients at Tier 1 investment banks and asset managers.
- Growth: Be part of a company scaling rapidly after Series A, with opportunities to grow the scope and responsibility of your role.
- Exceptional team: We are a world class team that combines expertise from AI labs (Google DeepMind, Meta AI) with leading Financial institutions (Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Rothschild & Co, Aviva Investors, Visible Alpha, Revolut).
Culture: We deeply value collaboration, intellectual curiosity, disagreement and high performance.
Benefits at Finster AI
We're a growing, cross-functional team that values supporting each other's development. As part of the team, you can expect:
- 25 days PTO, excluding bank holidays
- Flexible working - Our flexible work model aims to meet the needs of our diverse employee community by making work more flexible, connected, and inclusive. Depending on the role and needs of the team, Finster AI employees have the flexibility to work from home 2 days per week.
- Generous healthcare and dental package
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