Senior Frontend Engineer

About Wahed:

The global financial system wasn't built for everyone. For millions of people, its reliance on interest (riba) creates a barrier to managing money and building wealth without compromising their values.

At Wahed, we're changing that. We are a global fintech company on a mission to build a new financial system—one that is ethical, accessible, and entirely interest-free. From our offices across the globe, our team is building products that were once deemed impossible, from pioneering Shariah-compliant equity ETFs, creating true riba-free alternatives to high yield savings accounts, to creating no-leverage real estate investments for truly interest-free income producing assets. If you're driven to solve complex problems and believe finance should empower, not exclude, join us in building a more equitable financial future.

Job Brief:

We are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to join our Core development team. As a team member, you will play a role in building, maintaining, designing, and implementing new and current features primarily on the Wahed Platform, a React Native app. Building product and innovative features is a highly collaborative effort, and as such, a strong team player with a commitment to perfection is required. We are looking for candidates that are self-motivated and eager to learn new technologies, work well both within a team and on their own, and have an attention to detail.

Job Description: :
• Development of the React Native architecture including creating and maintaining core mobile components.

• Work with other senior engineers to drive and deliver on our product roadmap, turning rough specs into features.

• Provide leadership and mentorship to other frontend and mobile engineers on the team.

• Find elegant solutions to usability problems. Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across both all our frontend platforms.

• Engineer new features that can work seamlessly across all of maintained web and mobile applications.

• Leverage APIs for integrations with other platforms.

Job Specification: :
• At least 2 years of recent experience working with React Native.

• At least 7 years of commercial experience with JavaScript and TypeScript and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax, React, React Native and GraphQL

• Product minded: committed to building the best user experience.

• Understand the trade-offs in employing different engineering solutions to a problem, valuing pragmatism over idealism.

• Eager and open to learning.

• General understanding of Swift, Objective-C and Java.

• Experience with AWS.

• Experience with Server-side JS e.g. Node JS.

• Familiar with event-based and microservices architectures.

• Understanding the standards and rules regulated by the Apple Developer/Connect system.

• Have an app hosted publicly in the Google or Apple app store(s).

Why this role stands out::
This is an opportunity to play a role in building, maintaining, designing, and implementing new and current features primarily on the Wahed Platform, a React Native app. As part of the Core development team, you will contribute to products that help build a more ethical, accessible, and entirely interest-free financial system.

Building product and innovative features is a highly collaborative effort, and as such, a strong team player with a commitment to perfection is required. We are looking for candidates that are self-motivated and eager to learn new technologies, work well both within a team and on their own, and have an attention to detail.