Lead Frontend Engineer

About Verto

At Verto, we're on a mission to democratise global finance and empower businesses in Emerging Markets to reach the world. Founded by British-Nigerian entrepreneurs Ola Oyetayo and Anthony Oduu, our roots in Africa provided a firsthand understanding of the significant challenges businesses face with cross-border payments, ranging from illiquid currencies and high fees to slow transactions. This deep-rooted insight is why Africa remains a core focus, as we're committed to bridging the gap between emerging and developed markets and fostering global economic growth.

What started as an FX solution for the Nigerian Naira has evolved into a market-leading platform, enabling thousands of businesses to seamlessly transfer billions of dollars annually. We believe that where you do business shouldn’t determine your success or ability to scale. We're creating equal access to the easy payment and liquidity solutions that are already a given in developed markets.

We're not alone in realising this crucial need; we're backed by world-class investors including Y-Combinator, Quona, and MEVP. With Verto receiving the Milken-Motsepe Prize, appearing on CNBCs list of fastest growing UK companies, the Deloitte Fast 50 and Sifted’s fastest-growing UK tech companies, we are building a seamless cross-border payment future.

Join us as we continue to grow and transform global finance.

Role Overview

We are seeking a talented and results-driven frontend expert to lead the architecture, development, and scaling of our web assets. In this role, you will bridge the gap between engineering, marketing, and cloud infrastructure, ensuring our corporate website delivers a flawless, high-performance user experience globally. You will own everything from headless CMS integrations to deep technical SEO and serverless cloud deployment. If you have a passion for pixel-perfect design, modern web paradigms, and deep technical ownership, this role is for you.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Architect, build, and maintain our corporate website to ensure a highly responsive, seamless, and pixel-perfect experience across all devices.
• Work extensively with Contentful or similar headless CMS platforms to build dynamic, content-driven web pages that empower our marketing teams.
• Implement advanced Server-Side Rendering (SSR) techniques and optimize Core Web Vitals to ensure lightning-fast performance.
• Drive technical SEO improvements across our digital ecosystem to maximize global search visibility.
• Build out and manage internationalization (i18n) workflows for multiple regions while ensuring strict adherence to web accessibility (a11y) standards.
• Integrate, test, and manage marketing analytics tools, tag managers, and user-tracking scripts without compromising page load speeds.
• Deploy and manage scalable web assets using AWS services, configuring DNS, CDN caching, and serverless functions to maintain high availability and low latency.

What You Need

• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in frontend web development or website engineering.
• A strong, framework-agnostic foundation in modern JavaScript/TypeScript, DOM manipulation, and core web architecture.
• Deep understanding of modern HTML5, CSS layout techniques (Flexbox, Grid, CSS variables), and mobile-first responsive design practices.
• Proven experience successfully integrating headless CMS platforms such as Contentful, Sanity, or Strapi.
• Practical execution of technical SEO strategies, web performance optimization (including minification, lazy loading, and image optimization), i18n, and web accessibility standards.
• Solid, hands-on experience deploying and managing websites on AWS, including the configuration of S3, CloudFront, Lambda, Route53, and a working knowledge of basic networking.

Best If You Have

• Strong, recent experience working with Angular architectures, specifically utilizing modern Angular paradigms and Server-Side Rendering (SSR).
• Foundational backend experience with Node.js to build BFF (Backend for Frontend) layers, write API endpoints, or handle custom serverless logic.
• Hands-on experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions or GitLab CI along with automated testing frameworks.
• Experience in fintech industry or SaaS start-ups/scale-ups

About the Interview Process

It includes a chat with the talent team, a tech round with our principal architect, and a culture + tech chat with our Head of Tech

Life At Verto

Perks

• Insurance paid by the company
• Health and wellness benefits (with specific added benefits depending on the location of the role)
• Yearly salary review based on inflation, personal and business performance
• Access to entire Udemy’s library
• Budget for professional development courses
• Work-From-Anywhere policy for certain durations
• Integration programme (opportunity to work from our global offices)
• Regular team social events
• Pension scheme (depending on the role location)
• Flexible work arrangements
• Exposure to work with globally distributed teams
• Location specific benefits like car lease policy, cycle to work, gym membership, etc.

You’ll Fit Right In If You

• Love asking “why?”
• Value solving problems over just completing tasks
• Understand sync vs. async communication practices
• Thrive in ambiguity and change
• Actively seek feedback
• Prioritise impact over activity
• Are fun to work with - we love good humour!

Culture

• Our Core Values: These values reflect our focus, energy, and shared expectations.
• Champion the Mission: We are driven by curiosity and belief to solve global cross-border payment challenges.
• Be the Best: We are open, take calculated risks, focus on results, and excel in our work.
• Work as One: We transparently share failures and successes.
• Go the Extra Mile: We deliver beyond expectations and achieve the impossible.
• Customer First: We creatively solve problems and boldly design better experiences for customers.
• Run with It: We are determined, embrace challenges, own tasks, act swiftly, and deliver results.
• Industry Competitive Compensation & Benefits: We reward employees for their value to the business with competitive compensation and benefits across all locations. This includes performance-based salary reviews, comprehensive health and wellness benefits, generous paid time off, and flexible working arrangements to support your career and life.

Diversity & Inclusion at Verto

Verto is an equal opportunities employer and we value diversity. Anyone seeking employment at Verto is considered based on Merit, Competence, Qualifications and their Talent. We are proud to be a truly international team and we do not discriminate in our hiring process.

Originally posted on Himalayas