Frontend Engineer

Job Title: Frontend Engineer

Location: Cardiff

Hybrid / Flexible Working

Salary: up to £50,000 + up to 20% annual bonus + benefits

Stability, flexibility and the opportunity to work on greenfield projects within one of Europe’s leading financial experts, sound interesting to you?

LDMS - About Us

Founded in 2018, LDMS is part of the LC Financial Holdings group, a 3 pillar organisation that has over 950 employees across Europe. Together, we have an impressive track record of providing world class credit expertise that spans over 20 years.

We are a Fintech company focused on digital lending software, a market growing around 18% per year and set to be worth $27 billion by 2028. Given our expertise within the company and across the group we aim to be the leader in the space, and in order to do that we need a team of people who can not just write quality code but can think, create and challenge others to come up with the best solutions for our customers. We are an ambitious team with a pretty big ‘to do list’ including improving existing products, building new ones and delivering to new markets.

The Role

We're hiring a frontend engineer to help own the shared foundation that every Product Team builds on — shared components, design system standards, tooling, and architecture.

This isn't a feature team. Your work has a multiplying effect, the components you build and the standards you help shape are used by every team that ships product. You'll rotate into Product Teams to support them on new patterns and challenges, staying close to how the foundation is used and bringing what you learn back.

We believe AI and agentic development has thrown out the old playbook. The way software gets built is being rethought from the ground up, and we're not sitting that out. We're figuring out what it looks like for us — and you'll be part of shaping it.

If you want to influence how teams develop software, this is for you.

Key Responsibilities:

From time to time, the key responsibilities may change or be adapted to the needs of the business; however, the below gives an overview of the key focus areas.

· Own and evolve the shared component library

· Maintain and improve the design system and UI standards

· Improve the frontend build pipeline and developer experience

· Build and maintain shared frontend testing frameworks and quality standards

· Contribute to shared modules and platform-level frontend features

· Drive continuous improvements to frontend architecture

· Support Product Teams through rotations, reviews, and direct collaboration

Requirements

Essential:

· 3-5 years of frontend engineering experience, with time spent on platform work or component libraries

· Strong React and TypeScript fundamentals

· Experience building with MUI or a comparable component library

· You've built and maintained a design system, not just used one

· You can take a UI idea — sketch, design file, or conversation — and turn it into something engineers can build from

· You care about the details. Not just whether it works, but whether it feels right. You take pride in UI and UX that's genuinely good

· Solid across unit, integration, and end-to-end testing (Vitest, WebDriver, Playwright)

· Experience with version control systems such as Git

· Comfortable working within Agile teams and contributing to sprint ceremonies

Desirable:

· Experience with Figma, wireframing, or prototyping

· Familiarity with Vite, Rollup, or similar build tooling

· Experience with Docker or other containerisation tools

· Cloud platform exposure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

· Financial services or regulated industry background

· You've been working with AI-assisted or agentic development, or you're actively excited about where it's heading

What’s important to us?

It’s safe to say our passion is tech, but we recognise that the people we hire and bring together are at the heart of the organisation. Over the years, we have acquired and recruited a pretty eclectic bunch with hobbies ranging from gaming to ultra marathon running, snowboarding to chess and hiking and climbing; However, what we do have in common are our values:

• Teamwork
• Merit
• Develop
• Honest
• Impactful
• Integrity

They may look like corporate jargon, but they mean something to us. If you can relate to the above, get in touch, as there’s a good chance that you’d be a great addition to the team.

Benefits

• Discretionary Bonus (Up-to 20%)
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• 1 day Birthday leave
• 1 day Charity leave
• Private Health Insurance
• EAP
• Pension (3% / 5% contribution)
• Salary sacrifice - (Bike & Electric Vehicle Scheme)
• Monthly socials
• Charity Events