Self Financial is a venture-backed, high-growth FinTech company with a mission to increase economic inclusion and financial resilience by empowering people to build credit and build savings. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Staff Frontend Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
11 days ago
Salary
$135K - $200K / year
Job Description
Role Description
We’re growing our Frontend Engineering team at Self. You’ll join a high-performing team building Self Financial’s mobile app and web experiences. We care deeply about creativity, quality, and delivering an innovative user experience to a large customer base in a fast-paced, “team-of-teams” environment with frequent releases.
We are hiring for multiple Frontend Engineering openings across levels. While this posting reflects the core expectations of the role, final title and leveling will be determined based on demonstrated experience, scope of impact, and competencies assessed throughout the interview process.
Staff Software Engineers (P4) are expected to play a key leadership role in shaping technical direction, driving high-impact projects, and mentoring engineering teams. In this role, you will be a force multiplier, leveraging deep technical expertise, domain knowledge, and a strategic mindset to enhance our software platforms and business outcomes.
As a Staff Engineer, you will:
- Lead multi-team initiatives
- Identify and address systemic challenges
- Set high standards for engineering excellence
- Influence project direction and ensure alignment with business objectives
- Contribute to organizational governance
- Make a lasting impact on the engineering culture and technical platforms
What you’ll do:
- Build customer-facing experiences that feel seamless across Android, iOS, and Web
- Integrate front-end functionality with REST APIs and third-party services (feature flags, analytics, messaging)
- Own quality: testing strategy, code reviews, accessibility, performance profiling, and safe rollout practices
- Provide architectural guidance, identifying and addressing systemic technical challenges
- Drive alignment across engineering, product, and business stakeholders to maximize project value and impact
- Lead cross-team architectural discussions, technical strategy, and platform improvements
- Mentor junior and senior engineers across the engineering team
- Provide technical leadership by guiding teams on solution design, ownership, and accountability
Qualifications
- 8-12 years of software engineering experience, with emphasis on building frontend web and/or mobile applications
- Strong experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and modern frontend fundamentals (performance, accessibility, testing)
- Experience with HTML/CSS and modern web technologies (Next.js is a plus)
- Experience building and consuming REST APIs
- Experience with common engineering tools such as Git, Jira, Confluence (or similar)
- Comfort collaborating across the stack (debugging APIs/services; experience with Python or similar is a plus)
- Bonus: GraphQL, SQL/Postgres, cloud/AWS familiarity, and experience working in an Agile environment
- Proven ability to lead technical projects and collaborate across teams to drive business impact
- Experience mentoring engineers and shaping technical direction within an organization
Requirements
- Direct experience building mobile applications for iOS and Android
- Proven ability shipping with React Native
- Experience with third-party tools such as Contentful, Braze, Segment, LaunchDarkly
- Prior Team Leadership experience
Benefits
- Company equity in the form of Stock Options
- Performance-based bonuses
- Generous employer-paid health, vision and dental insurance coverage
- Flexible vacation policy
- Educational assistance
- Free gym membership
- Casual dress code
- Team building events and activities
- Remote work arrangements/ flexible work schedule
- Paid parental leave
Job Requirements
- 8-12 years of software engineering experience, with emphasis on building frontend web and/or mobile applications
- Strong experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and modern frontend fundamentals (performance, accessibility, testing)
- Experience with HTML/CSS and modern web technologies (Next.js is a plus)
- Experience building and consuming REST APIs
- Experience with common engineering tools such as Git, Jira, Confluence (or similar)
- Comfort collaborating across the stack (debugging APIs/services; experience with Python or similar is a plus)
- Bonus: GraphQL, SQL/Postgres, cloud/AWS familiarity, and experience working in an Agile environment
- Proven ability to lead technical projects and collaborate across teams to drive business impact
- Experience mentoring engineers and shaping technical direction within an organization
- Direct experience building mobile applications for iOS and Android
- Proven ability shipping with React Native
- Experience with third-party tools such as Contentful, Braze, Segment, LaunchDarkly
- Prior Team Leadership experience
Benefits
- Company equity in the form of Stock Options
- Performance-based bonuses
- Generous employer-paid health, vision and dental insurance coverage
- Flexible vacation policy
- Educational assistance
- Free gym membership
- Casual dress code
- Team building events and activities
- Remote work arrangements/ flexible work schedule
- Paid parental leave
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