AVP, Principal Software Engineer (Front-End)

Our client operates in the consumer financial services space, focusing on making everyday purchases and essential needs more accessible through flexible financing solutions. They support individuals across their financial journey—from obtaining their first line of credit to managing long-term financial flexibility—by enabling more informed and responsible credit decisions.

Our client has built a vast network that connects consumers with a wide range of small and mid-sized businesses, as well as providers in the health and wellness sector. Through this ecosystem, they play a meaningful role in supporting both customer financial well-being and the growth of businesses that form a critical part of the broader economy

Responsibilities:

• Lead development teams through all phases of the Agile development life cycle.
• Coach and mentor junior talent, including pair-programming and reviewing AIgenerated code with engineering judgment.
• Influence and collaborate with software developers, UX designers, product managers, application architects, and customer application experts to create
• amazing apps.
• Champion responsible adoption of AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) on the team—setting prompt patterns, distinguishing AI Skills
• (deterministic capabilities) from Agents (autonomous, multi-step workflows), and following company guidance for data handling, PII protection, IP compliance, and code provenance in regulated financial services contexts.
• Ensure compliance with architecture, security, and technology standards set by company.
• Participate in addressing root cause analyses, incident reports, and provide direction in problem resolution.
• Ability to analyze production defects, troubleshoot systems, identify root cause, and implement fixes.
• Provide 24x7 on-call support periodically throughout the year.
• Identify ways to increase efficiency and improve system performance, including by piloting AI tools and agentic workflows for repetitive engineering tasks.
• Work with third party vendors to develop software and/or integrate their software into company products.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 5 years in full stack development with a strong focus on JavaScript (React JS in particular) OR, in lieu of degree, with 7 years of experience in the same.
• Hands-on experience using at least one AI coding assistant (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent) as part of regular development workflow.
• Proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Redux, Styled-Components, and RTL or Cypress.
• Familiarity with AI-native concepts—RAG patterns, vector databases, MCP (Model Context Protocol), and agent orchestration—and how they differ from
• traditional architecture.
• Awareness of the open-source AI tooling ecosystem (Continue.dev, Aider, Cline, Ollama). Exposure to building or customizing AI agents/skills using LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Azure OpenAI) for engineering automation such as code review, documentation, or migration assistants.
• Live and breathe testing.