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Lead Frontend Developer – Borrow Channels Job Equity Bank
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The Role Purpose (LINK To overall business objectives, eg. ARRP)
To design, build, and maintain Frontend systems support Borrow’s digital lending loan journey. This role contributes directly to improving customer access to credit, streamlining loan lifecycle management, and integrating with key financial and regulatory systems, aligning with the company’s strategic goal of enabling inclusive, scalable, and secure financial services.
The KEY Responsibilities (DUTIES)
- Evaluate the business requirements and define technical requirements.
- Engage the business in understanding borrow product requirements.
- Liaise with architects, analysts, business representatives, infrastructure specialists to jointly develop proposals for technical solutions.
- Contribute to system architecture, code reviews, and technical documentation.
- Support continuous integration, deployment, and monitoring practices.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following best practices.
- Implement front end journey for core lending features such as loan application, credit scoring, disbursement, repayment, and collections in various channels like Web, Android and iOS.
- Utilize Javascript, Reactto design, develop and maintain robust and scalable backend services.
- Collaborate with product managers, backend developers, DevOps, and data teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
Qualifications
EXPERIENCE requirements
Professional Experience Levels
- 8+ years of progressive experience, including system design, mentorship, and leadership in complex projects.
Industry Exposure
- Experience in Banking, Fintech, or Digital Lending environments is highly desirable, particularly with domain knowledge in financial workflows, digital payments, credit scoring, or customer onboarding.
Functional Expertise
- Demonstrated experience in active software development using Angular with Typescript, SCSS, Swift, Kotlin and enterprise integrations.
- Roles in technical support, system integration, or DevOps are considered a plus, especially in production-critical environments.
- Team leadership in previous roles.
Additional Advantageous Experience
- Familiarity with regulatory compliance (e.g., PCI DSS, GDPR, CBK guidelines) in financial systems.
- Prior involvement in integration with third-party platforms, such as CRBs, core banking systems, mobile wallets, or payment gateways.
- Exposure to cloud environments (Azure) and infrastructure-as-code tools (eg. Helm) is a bonus.
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