frontend developer for mortgage products

Abound is redefining consumer lending in the UK and beyond. Using advanced AI and Open Banking data, the company makes fair, affordable personal finance available to more people by assessing customers’ full financial picture rather than relying primarily on credit scores. It develops mortgage products and operates in fintech.

• Build and ship high-quality product features using React, TypeScript, GraphQL, and Tailwind;
• Lead frontend projects from concept through delivery, including technical design, implementation, testing, and iteration;
• Work with product, backend engineering, and business stakeholders to simplify complex mortgage journeys and make them fast, intuitive, and trustworthy;
• Apply strong UI/UX judgment;
• Champion frontend architecture, component systems, performance, accessibility, and developer experience;
• Raise the standard of frontend engineering across the team;
• Question assumptions, improve flows, and care deeply about customer experience;
• Identify clunky interactions and opportunities to simplify flows or provide users with more clarity;
• Own outcomes, make decisions, and push work over the finish line in a fast-moving environment.

• Strong professional experience building production web applications with React;
• Advanced hands-on experience coding with TypeScript;
• Experience working with GraphQL APIs;
• Strong understanding of frontend architecture, state management, and performance optimisation;
• Experience with modern testing frameworks, including integration and end-to-end testing;
• Good eye for design, interaction details, responsiveness, accessibility, and overall product polish;
• Product-minded approach focused on customer outcomes and the reasoning behind the work;
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability;
• Ability to uncover unknowns, navigate ambiguity, and turn complex problems into clear, shippable solutions;
• Pride in clean code, thoughtful reviews, and helping others grow;
• Nice to have: experience in fintech, lending, mortgages, or other regulated industries, experience working with Python or contributing to backend services, experience in early-stage or fast-moving product teams, familiarity with user analytics, feature flagging, and observability tools, a data-driven approach to decision-making, openness to change, innovation, and the ways AI will reshape how products are built and used.

• Hybrid work with 3 days a week in the office;
• Equity participation;
• 25 Days’ holiday per year plus 8 bank holidays;
• 2 Paid volunteering days per year;
• One month paid sabbatical after 4 years;
• Employee loan;
• Free gym membership through WellHub;
• Team wellness budget for activities such as yoga, tennis, or bouldering.