Front-end Engineer

Department: Engineering

Location: London

Employment Type: FullTime

Location: London
Office attendance: 4 days per week in-office (Paddington)

Vega is an early-stage startup. There's no playbook, limited structure, and the expectations are high. You'll own what you build, move fast with limited hand-holding, and be expected to go beyond the job description when it matters.

This is not a 9 to 5. The problems are genuinely hard and the bar is high. But the people who thrive here leave a real mark on the product, the company, and an industry that's long overdue for change.

If you want structure, clear scope, and a predictable pace, this isn't the right place. If you want to do the best work of your career and actually see it matter, keep reading...

About Vega:

Vega is unlocking scale for alternative asset managers. Private markets are shaping into one of the most influential forces in the global economy over the coming decades, with more than $20 trillion in AuM today and expected to already triple by 2032. Today, the industry is at an inflection point as it enters an era of hyper-growth, increased complexity, and brand-new demands. To competitively service and scale their client base across the entire investment lifecycle, managers need a technological transformation. Vega is delivering the industry’s purpose-built infrastructure with AltOS – the AI-powered client & distribution operating system for alternatives.

Vega’s is leading the private markets industry into the age of agentic AI, setting the market standard and bringing creative, first-principles solutions to a legacy industry long dominated by archaic point solutions.

Vega’s founding team consists of alternatives specialists from KKR, Blackstone, Elliott, and Goldman Sachs, along with top product and engineering talent from successful fintech scale-ups like Revolut and Trade Republic. Vega has raised over $28M in funding from Apollo, Motive Ventures, Picus Capital, and 60 senior executives from the alternative investment industry.

To learn more, please visit - www.vega-alts.com

Key responsibilities

• User Interfaces: Collaborate closely with designers to translate design mockups into responsive and intuitive user interfaces using React and Tailwind CSS, and contribute to the development and evolution of our design system and theming strategies.

• Collaborate with back-end engineers: to define API contracts and best practices for consumption, asking relevant questions about scalability and performance, while pragmatically leveraging the strengths and addressing the weaknesses of both front-end and back-end systems

• System Development: Develop efficient and reusable front-end systems and abstractions to ensure a scalable and maintainable codebase

• Performance Optimisation: Optimise application performance to deliver a high-quality UX

• Industry Trends & Best Practices: Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and best practices in front-end development, particularly in the fintech industry

• Code Review & Quality Assurance: Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to maintain code quality and adherence to coding standards

• Process Improvement: Contribute to the continuous improvement of our development processes and methodologies

• Testing: Strong understanding of unit, integration, and end-to-end testing methodologies and tools, with a bonus for experience in leading E2E testing initiatives

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM or related quantitative field (e.g. Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or similar)

• 5+ years of professional experience as a front-end engineer, with a focus on fintech applications

• Proficiency in TypeScript, React, and Tailwind CSS

• Experience building user interfaces that interact with AI-powered features, such as LLM-driven workflows, AI assistants, intelligent automation, or data-driven insights

• Understanding of modern AI concepts and APIs (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock or similar), and how AI-powered capabilities can be integrated into frontend products

• Strong understanding of responsive design and mobile-first development

• Deep understanding of end-to-end testing and related technologies

• Experience working in an agile development environment and collaborating with cross-functional teams

• Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively within a team

Why join us?

• Work alongside experienced engineers from leading fintech and technology companies and build infrastructure powering the next generation of private markets

• Solve genuinely hard data and system design problems

• An opportunity to shape the trajectory of a high-growth company with world-class investors

• High autonomy and trust, with a direct impact on how Vega delivers value for clients

• Competitive salary and equity package

• Benefits include private health insurance, sports allowance, L&D budget, and more