About us

Neem is a leading embedded finance platform that helps digital businesses seamlessly embed financial services—from payments and earned-wage access to lending products—into their platform. Founded by serial entrepreneurs and backed by global and local investors including DNI Group, Arif Habib, Outrun Ventures, SparkLabs Fintech, angel investors from Stripe, PayNet, M-Pesa and more. Neem is driving a strong impact and shaping the next generation of the financial landscape in Pakistan.

What we offer

• Hands-on operating experience of building pioneering digital fintech businesses with a powerful impact vision for Pakistan and emerging markets, together with a globally experienced team of operators, and entrepreneurs
• A supportive and inclusive culture designed to help you find your purpose & grow you professionally and as a person
• Competitive salary base
• Health & wellbeing allowance
• Employee stock options scheme

What are we looking for

We are looking for a seasoned Lead Frontend Engineer to drive architecture, elevate user experiences, and mentor a high-performing team of engineers. In this role, you will own the technical vision and execution of our web interfaces across platforms. You will collaborate closely with Product, Design, QA, and DevOps to build performant, maintainable, and scalable UIs that deliver business impact. You will set the tone for code quality, lead architectural decisions, and inspire a team of engineers to thrive and grow.

Your responsibilities

• Technical leadership
  • Define and evolve the frontend architecture for new features, modules, and cross-cutting concerns (state management, theming, performance)
  • Drive frontend codebase modernization, introducing scalable design patterns and enforcing best practices
  • Lead design and architecture reviews, documenting decisions and trade-offs

• Frontend development
  • Build responsive, accessible, pixel-perfect UIs using React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS (and complementary technologies like Bootstrap or Flutter for mobile‐web views)
  • Champion performance improvements (lazy loading, bundle splitting, virtual scrolling, etc.)
  • Integrate with RESTful APIs, caching layers, and observability tooling
  • Drive end-to-end UX delivery in collaboration with Product and Design
• Team enablement & mentorship
  • Mentor frontend engineers through pair programming, architecture sessions, and code reviews
  • Establish code quality standards and guide the team in upholding them
  • Foster a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and engineering excellence
• Agile delivery
  • Participate in sprint planning, standups, retrospectives, and delivery tracking
  • Unblock the team during delivery; estimate and de-risk technical scopes early
  • Partner with QA and DevOps to maintain deployment pipelines, testing strategies, and CI/CD flows

You should apply if

• Experience
  
  • 6+ years of professional frontend engineering experience in production systems
  • Proven track record of technical leadership and mentoring team members
• Front-End expertise
  • Deep hands-on experience with React (hooks, context, performance profiling)
  • Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, and modern CSS paradigms
  • Familiarity with micro-frontends, monorepos, and modular design patterns
  • Bonus: Experience with cross-platform UI frameworks like Flutter, React Native

• Systems thinking
  • Comfortable designing component libraries, design systems, and state management strategies (Redux, Zustand, etc.)
  • Deep understanding of browser internals, rendering lifecycle, and performance tuning
• Agile & communication skills
  • Comfortable working in Scrum-based sprints; adept at sprint ceremonies and estimation
  • Excellent verbal and written communication; able to translate technical concepts for non-engineering stakeholders
• You are aligned with our Neem core values and ready to show up daily in sync with those principles (below)

Our Neem core values:

💫 Our purpose is our north star

🧗🏽 We put autonomy over control

🚴🏽‍♀️ We roll with YES mindset

🤲🏼 We speak up openly

🌿 We care about our impact

❤️ We nurture ourselves

At Neem, we are always on the lookout for remarkable talent, values fit, competence, and people driven by purpose. We are building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about any of the open roles but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.