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

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.