Senior Lead Frontend Developer

Crossing Hurdles is a global recruitment consultancy partnering with a fast-growing fintech start up focused on empowering Indias self-employed and gig workers through daily digital savings and investment tools.

Position: Frontend Lead Fintech Lending

Type: Full-time

Compensation: Competitive

Location: Gurgaon (On-site)

Experience: 6+years

Role Responsibilities:

• Lead frontend engineering strategy, architecture and execution.
• Build and scale lending-based consumer product interfaces with high reliability, low latency, and strong performance benchmarks.
• Mentor frontend engineers, conduct code reviews, and drive engineering excellence across the team.
• Translate product requirements and UX design into clean, responsive, high-conversion user interfaces.
• Integrate backend systems, APIs, credit/risk engines and ensure secure data handling practices.
• Implement best practices for caching, asynchronous operations, error handling, and observability.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, backend, design and leadership teams to ensure timely delivery and technical alignment.
• Own code quality, deployment readiness, system scalability and long-term technical decisions.

Ideal Qualifications:

• 6+ years of frontend development experience with strong leadership and people management exposure.
• Mandatory experience in loan lending, NBFC-backed credit platforms or consumer-facing fintech products.
• Proven experience in building and scaling high-volume consumer applications.
• Deep proficiency in modern frontend frameworks such as React, React Native, TypeScript, Redux or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of web performance optimisation, component architecture, caching, security practices and modular code design.
• Experience working with REST APIs/GraphQL, authentication layers, session management and state management at scale.
• Ability to drive technical decisions independently while maintaining architectural integrity and maintainability.
• Experience working in fast-paced, product-driven startup environments.
• Preferable experience or familiarity with Android (Kotlin) or iOS (Swift) development.
• Exposure to financial services, credit scoring, payments, BNPL, personal loan distribution or similar digital ecosystems.