Lead Frontend Engineer

We're looking for a Lead Frontend Engineer to help us build the next generation of Kiplot's platform. This is not a role maintaining a legacy codebase, polishing a finished product, or making cosmetic UI changes. Kiplot is already used by major enterprise customers, but we are still building aggressively. You'll be improving and extending product areas that are already working in production, while also leading the design and delivery of substantial new features from the ground up.

The frontend challenges at Kiplot are deep. Our users work with large, complex datasets across strategy, finance, delivery, and resourcing. They need powerful planning, modelling, reporting, workflow, and visualisation tools that remain fast, intuitive, and reliable under real enterprise complexity.

As Lead Frontend Engineer, you'll help shape how we build sophisticated product experiences: interactive views, configurable workflows, dense data interfaces, visual planning tools, and complex stateful interactions. You'll work closely with product, design, and backend engineering to turn difficult enterprise problems into software that feels clear, fast, and well-crafted.

This is a role for someone who wants more than a narrow delivery position. You should enjoy building significant product capability, making pragmatic technical decisions, setting a high bar for frontend quality, and working in a team that cares deeply about craft, speed, and user experience.

About you

• You have a problem-solving mindset, high standards, and the ability to see difficult work through to completion.
• You enjoy working in a team of strong specialists, where collaboration is used to understand problems deeply, shape the right solution, and make good architectural decisions before moving quickly into focused execution.
• You will:

• Be comfortable working closely with peers during early exploration, prototyping, and design, especially when the shape of the solution is still emerging.
• Be comfortable taking a clear plan, disappearing into focused build mode, and coming back with substantial, high-quality product capability.
• Be confident building complex frontend applications in React, owning features from concept through to delivery.
• Have experience designing and building solutions based on user requirements, not just implementing specs handed to you.
• Care deeply about clean, efficient, reusable code that other strong engineers can understand, extend, and rely on.
• Care about user experience and understand that great engineering serves real people.

• We work best with people who like the full loop: understand the problem, design the approach, refine the plan, challenge the weak points, then build with pace and ownership.

Nice to have:

• Background in enterprise SaaS environments.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures or real-time systems.