About Tala

Tala is a global technology company building the world’s most accessible financial services. With more than $350 million raised from visionary investors, we are serving millions of customers around the world who have been overlooked by traditional financial institutions – and our plan is to serve millions more, and have been named by the Fortune Impact 20 list, CNBC’s Disruptor 50, and Forbes’ Fintech 50 list for four years running. We are expanding across product offerings, countries and crypto and are looking for people who have an entrepreneurial spirit and are passionate about the mission.

By creating a unique platform that enables lending and other financial services around the globe, people in emerging markets are able to start and expand small businesses, manage day-to-day needs, and pursue their financial goals with confidence. Currently, more than 6 million people across Kenya, the Philippines, Mexico, and India have used Tala products. Due to our global team, we have a remote-first approach, and also have offices in Santa Monica, CA (HQ); Nairobi, Kenya; Mexico City, Mexico; Manila, the Philippines; and Bangalore, India.

Most Talazens join us because they connect with our mission of enabling financial agency for underbanked people around the world. If you are energized by the impact you can make at Tala, we’d love to hear from you!

The Lead Frontend Engineer helps build Tala’s frontend application to support market operations, new features and migration process. They push the team towards building a highly available, scalable, reliable, fault-tolerant, and performant platform. They are a great mentor and collaborator. The Lead Frontend Engineer follows and improves upon Tala’s engineering processes and standards while advancing Tala’s mission and business objectives.

This is a technical leadership role within Tala’s technical track. You will report to the Director of Engineering and collaborate cross-functionally with all Tala teams across the globe.
Qualifications

Design and implement features as defined in the Product roadmap
Review design documents, perform code reviews, and weigh in on implementation choices from other technical teams
Collaborate and support cross-functional teams (Product, Data, Credit, CX and Business Development) to ship scalable software solutions
Continually improve our codebase with clean and efficient code as well as solve problems using the most appropriate technology
Contribute to complete migration of legacy codebase to a microservices architecture
Contribute to the testing infrastructure to increase code coverage for frontend modules
Advance monitoring and alerting capabilities of backend modules to allow proactive improvements to availability and response times
Technically lead and mentor more junior Engineers to build/extend complex modules

Technical Qualifications

7+ years of software engineering experience
5+ years coding in one or more of the following languages: React, Typescript
Familiarity with one or more of the following languages: Java, Scala, Kotlin
Experience building services as part of microservices architecture deployed in a cloud environment
Experience working with both relational (MySQL) and non-relational (Cassandra, Redis) databases

Non-Technical Qualifications

Ability to work with a team distributed globally
Ability to prioritize and communicate effectively in a fast-paced environment
Proficiency with Agile development process
Strong documentation skills
Experience coaching and mentoring other engineers
Demonstrated ability to interview candidates and evaluate technical skills

Our vision is to build a new financial ecosystem where everyone can participate on equal footing and access the tools they need to be financially healthy. We strongly believe that inclusion fosters innovation and we’re proud to have a diverse global team that represents a multitude of backgrounds, cultures, and experience. We hire talented people regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.