Initi8 Recruitment
Principal Frontend Engineer - Growing Start Up - London (Hybrid)
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Principal Frontend Engineer - Vue.js
Growing start-up - London (Hybrid)
The Job
We’re looking for a Principal Frontend Engineer to join a well-backed start-up. You’ll help design and build scalable systems from the ground up. This is a hands-on leadership role that blends architecture with active development, giving you ownership of how things are structured and delivered. You’ll be working with modern tooling, including AI-assisted approaches to building and iterating on systems. The focus is on strong engineering fundamentals, writing code, shaping architecture, and continuously improving how products are built and scaled.
About you
You are a highly experienced engineer, bringing strong architectural knowledge and a genuine passion for building well-designed, scalable systems.
- You’ve likely played a key role in shaping technical direction and take pride in delivering high-quality solutions.
- You're an experienced Lead/Principal Frontend Engineer. You will have strong hands-on experience with: Vue.js / Typescript /API's/Node.js/React
- You're keen to implement AI-assisted approaches within your development.
- You’ll be naturally proactive and an excellent communicator.
- You enjoy ownership and want to help shape engineering standards, architecture, and product direction.
- You will be confident working independently, but equally comfortable collaborating as part of a team to deliver impactful outcomes.
- You will stand out if you have experience in fast-paced start-up environments, fintech, real-time consumer platforms, or high-availability environments.
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The Company
This business is a brand-new, fast-growing, and well-backed pre-seed–funded start-up founded by an experienced leadership team with highly ambitious international growth plans. They currently operate from London and Malta, with London becoming the long-term technology and marketing hub. The company is still intentionally small and highly collaborative, with around 10–11 employees in the UK and a further team in Malta... Their vision is to build world-class internal technology capability as they scale globally across multiple regulated markets.
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Why You Should Do This Job
- Early-stage opportunity with genuine ownership and influence.
- Direct access to founders and strategic technical decision-making.
- Genuine Technical Leadership
- International product scaling across multiple markets.
- Strong engineering culture focused on collaboration and continuous learning.
- Opportunity to move from outsourced delivery towards building an elite in-house engineering capability.
- Fast-moving start-up environment without excessive bureaucracy.
Salary + Package
£90k - £120k + benefits package.
Location
London based. Hybrid working with flexibility expected. The long-term technology hub will be based in London.
What Should You Do Now?
If you are an experienced Principal Frontend Engineer who wants genuine ownership, modern technology, and the opportunity to help shape a high-growth international product, then please click apply or contact me directly with your resume.
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