Senior Frontend Engineer
Yellow Card · Engineering · Senior · 20d ago
Open to candidates across Africa.
Applies on the original listing · via Himalayas
Who can apply
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Open to candidates across Africa.
“We’re looking to hire a Senior Frontend Engineer located within Africa to join our fast-growing, fully remote team.”
Yellow Card operates with a global team across 24 countries, with this role specifically based in Africa.
- Async-first
- The listing doesn't promise async-first working.
- Contractor / B2B
- No mention of hiring international contractors or invoicing.
- Global stipend
- No home office or equipment budget mentioned.
- Annual retreat
- No company-paid get-togethers mentioned.
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About the role
As a Senior Frontend Engineer in the Commercial Pod, you will own the frontend systems powering Yellow Card's commercial operations, trade execution, treasury operations, and internal tooling. You will build and scale resilient user interfaces designed for money movement, expand the shared Vue 3 design system, integrate against REST APIs and distributed backend services, and ensure frontend observability using Datadog.
What you'll do
- Own end-to-end delivery of frontend features across internal tooling products from design doc to production and monitoring
- Build and maintain scalable components in the shared Vue 3 design system and ensure quality API surfaces for other engineers
- Integrate frontend applications against REST APIs fronting serverless and EKS microservices, handling eventual consistency and partial failure states
- Instrument frontend applications with observability tooling, including Datadog and correlation IDs
- Write and review technical design docs and host Knowledge Sharing Sessions for the wider engineering organization
- Participate in the Commercial dev support rotation approximately once every five weeks
What you bring
- 5+ years of frontend engineering experience with expert proficiency in Vue 3 (Composition API) and TypeScript
- Deep understanding of modern JavaScript, component architectures, and state management libraries like Pinia
- Strong experience with modern CSS/SCSS, token-based design systems, and responsive layout patterns
- Demonstrated experience building data-dense UIs and maintaining shared component libraries
- Solid knowledge of frontend security best practices, RESTful API integrations, and testing frameworks (Vitest, Jest, Cypress, or Playwright)
- Familiarity with AWS services relevant to frontend deployments such as CloudFront, S3, Cognito, and CodeArtifact
About Yellow Card
Yellow Card is a licensed stablecoin-based infrastructure provider operating across more than 60 countries and 50 emerging markets, offering stablecoin payments, fiat settlement rails, and treasury management.
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