Senior/Lead Frontend Engineer

Senior & Lead Frontend Engineers (React / TypeScript)

Employment: Full-time via MLabs
Engagement: Contracted to a UAE-based enterprise client
Location: Remote (Eastern Europe / MENA / India preferred)

MLabs is hiring Senior and Lead Frontend Engineers to support a large-scale financial technology program for a UAE-based enterprise client. You will build secure, high-performance web applications within a regulated financial environment. This role focuses on modern frontend architecture, scalable UI systems, and seamless integration with backend and blockchain services. Lead-level candidates will drive frontend architecture decisions and mentor distributed engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable web applications using React and TypeScript
• Implement clean, modular, and testable frontend architecture
• Integrate frontend systems with secure backend APIs
• Optimize performance, responsiveness, and cross-browser compatibility
• Collaborate with backend, mobile, and blockchain teams
• Participate in code reviews and enforce frontend best practices
• Lead Engineers: guide architecture, mentor developers, and drive technical standards

Requirements

• 5+ years (Senior) / 8+ years (Lead) frontend development experience
• Strong proficiency in React and TypeScript
• Experience building production-grade SPAs
• Strong understanding of state management and modern frontend architecture
• Experience integrating REST APIs
• Experience with frontend testing frameworks
• Experience with Git and CI/CD workflows

Preferred

• Experience in fintech, banking, or regulated environments
• Experience building data-intensive dashboards or trading interfaces
• Familiarity with Web3 or blockchain-integrated frontend applications

Benefits

• Competitive international compensation

• Long-term engagement on an enterprise fintech platform
• Remote-first work model with flexible collaboration
• Opportunity to work on large-scale financial and blockchain-integrated systems
• Exposure to complex, high-performance distributed architecture
• Collaborative, high-caliber engineering environment

Due to the high volume of applications we anticipate, we regret that we are unable to provide individual feedback to all candidates. If you do not hear back from us within 4 weeks of your application, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion. We genuinely appreciate your interest and wish you the best in your job search.

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