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Senior Frontend Engineer
Yellow Card
WorldwideremotePosted today
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Key highlights
- 5+ years of experience
- Location: Africa
- Fully remote
- Expertise in Vue 3, TypeScript, and Pinia
- Includes stock option plan
- FinTech/Crypto experience strongly preferred
Role overview
Yellow Card is the largest licensed Stablecoin-based infrastructure provider operating across over 60 countries, providing infrastructure for Stablecoin payments, fiat settlement rails, wallet services, and custom local Stablecoin issuance across 50 emerging markets. They are seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer located within Africa to join their fully remote Commercial Pod, which owns systems for trade execution, treasury operations, commercial operations, and internal tooling.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end delivery of frontend features across the internal tooling products, from design doc through to production and post-release monitoring
- Build and extend components in our Vue 3 design system, caring about the API surface other engineers consume and not just the pixels
- Integrate against REST APIs fronting our serverless and EKS services, designing for real-world async behaviour: eventual consistency, retries, idempotent submissions, and partial failure states a user has to understand
- Instrument what you ship, so frontend work is observable in Datadog and carries correlation IDs through to the backend
- Write and review design docs, take part in our design doc review sessions, and run Knowledge Sharing Sessions for the wider engineering org
- Provide clear and concise communication and updates regarding feature development statuses to the team and stakeholders
- Adhere to internal coding standards, development processes, and design best practices, and help shape them as our engineering standards mature
- Ensure quality through thorough testing and peer review of your work and the work of cross-functional teams
- Take part in the Commercial dev support rota, roughly once every five weeks
- Embrace and demonstrate our values: humility, creativity, and independence
- Write and maintain clean, maintainable, and well-tested code for the future (and present) of the company’s platform
- Own significant surfaces of our B2B suite and contribute to the shared design system that other pods build on
- Collaborate closely with our Technical Lead, Product Managers, designers, and backend engineers to deliver interfaces that hold up under money-movement scrutiny
- Exude your upbeat energy and enthusiasm every day to motivate your team to be the best they can be in every aspect of what they do
- Celebrate the success of others by recognising the contributions of committed team members and their achievements
- Collaborate with your peers to collectively think of innovative ideas that drive business through technology
- Build and utilise working relationships with internal business partners across the organisation and external business contacts
Requirements
- Located within Africa
- 5+ years of experience as a Frontend Engineer
- Expert-level proficiency with Vue 3, the Composition API, and TypeScript (Strong React or Svelte engineers who can make a credible case for picking up Vue 3 quickly will be considered)
- Deep understanding of modern JavaScript, component-based architecture, and state management patterns such as Pinia
- Strong experience with modern CSS and SCSS, token-based styling, responsive design, and cross-browser compatibility
- Proven experience building and optimising scalable, high-performance UIs, including data-dense surfaces such as tables, dashboards, and forms with hard validation rules
- Real experience building or maintaining a shared component library or design system, including versioning, breaking changes, and consumer migration paths
- Strong experience working with RESTful APIs and integration patterns, and comfort reasoning about distributed backends and failure
- Solid understanding of frontend application security, including XSS, CSRF, content security policies, and secure client-side data handling
- Experience working with AWS, especially in contexts relevant to frontend (CloudFront, S3, Cognito, CodeArtifact)
- Experience with testing tools such as Vitest, Jest, Vue Test Utils, Cypress, or Playwright, and with Storybook for component development
- Clear and accurate written and verbal communication is a must
Nice to have
- Full-stack experience
- Experience in FinTech, Crypto, or other highly regulated environments, especially anything involving FX rates, trading, or money movement
- Exposure to African markets or other multi-currency, multi-regulator environments
- Knowledge of serverless architectures and how frontend apps interact with them
- Familiarity with performance monitoring and observability tools, particularly Datadog RUM, logs, and traces
- Understanding of web accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA) and best practices
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines for frontend deployments, and with automated release tooling such as release-please and Conventional Commits
- Experience deprecating and migrating off a legacy frontend without freezing product delivery
- Practical use of AI coding tools in your daily workflow
- Keen interest in learning and sharing current trends and advancements in modern web and back-end frameworks
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Meaningful health coverage
- Participation in stock option plan for all full-time employees
- Access to resources, support, and autonomy to grow professionally (Learning & Development)
- Fully remote work environment (Remote-First Flexibility)
- Mental Health Support Services
- Opportunity to work with talented professionals from 24+ countries in a multicultural environment
- Opportunity to shape the future of global FinTech and stablecoin accessibility
Additional details
- Technology stack: Vue 3 (Composition API), TypeScript, Pinia, Vite, Vitest, Storybook, SCSS with Figma-derived design tokens, internal design system published to AWS CodeArtifact, Node.js, Serverless Framework, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, AWS SQS, SNS, EventBridge, EKS, Valkey, Datadog, GitHub Actions
- The company operates with a global team spanning 24 countries speaking over 25 languages
- Originally posted on Himalayas
