Lead Frontend Engineer

Kiplot enables large organisations to turn their strategies into reality .

The project portfolio management (PPM) market is already worth $4B and growing fast. But most solutions are legacy tools, over 30 years old. Kiplot is part of a new generation of enterprise software : beautiful, interactive, easy to use, and endlessly configurable, without needing technical support or consultants.

Strategic Portfolio Management sits at the intersection of strategy, finance, delivery, and resourcing. As a result, Kiplot is used by senior leaders across the business to make decisions that shape how entire organisations invest, prioritise, and execute.

We are backed by a consortium of angel investors and are already profitable . Despite being a young start-up, Kiplot's platform is already relied upon by some of the world's biggest and best known financial services companies around the world.

Joining Kiplot means working closely with global enterprises and gaining first-hand exposure to how some of the world's largest organisations actually operate, make trade-offs, and turn strategy into action.

We are looking for extremely smart, exceptionally driven engineers who are energised by hard problems, high standards, and real ownership. Kiplot is a high-trust, high-performance team where people enjoy doing difficult work well.

We're looking for a Lead Frontend Engineer to help us build the next generation of Kiplot's platform .

This is not a role maintaining a legacy codebase, polishing a finished product, or making cosmetic UI changes. Kiplot is already used by major enterprise customers, but we are still building aggressively . You'll be improving and extending product areas that are already working in production, while also leading the design and delivery of substantial new features from the ground up.

The frontend challenges at Kiplot are deep . Our users work with large, complex datasets across strategy, finance, delivery, and resourcing. They need powerful planning, modelling, reporting, workflow, and visualisation tools that remain fast, intuitive, and reliable under real enterprise complexity.

As Lead Frontend Engineer, you'll help shape how we build sophisticated product experiences : interactive views, configurable workflows, dense data interfaces, visual planning tools, and complex stateful interactions. You'll work closely with product, design, and backend engineering to turn difficult enterprise problems into software that feels clear, fast, and well-crafted.

This is a role for someone who wants more than a narrow delivery position. You should enjoy building significant product capability, making pragmatic technical decisions, setting a high bar for frontend quality, and working in a team that cares deeply about craft, speed, and user experience .

Kiplot is a data-intensive platform built to deliver real-time, dynamic experiences through an event-driven architecture. Here's what powers it:

Frontend React Type Script D3.js Tan Stack

Node.js

Data and Authentication PostgreSQL Keycloak

Infrastructure AWS Kubernetes Docker

We leverage modern web technologies to create an intuitive and responsive user experience. Built with Type Script, we use React for component-driven development, Tan Stack for state management, and D3 to bring data visualisations to life with genuine wow factor. Your contributions will directly shape how users navigate complex data with ease.

Our backend combines ASP.NET Core (C#) and Node.js (Type Script) , following event-driven patterns like Event Sourcing and CQRS to manage complex workflows. PostgreSQL and Marten handle data persistence, while RabbitMQ powers our messaging layer. We maintain quality through automated testing with Jest, xUnit, and Test Cafe.

Kiplot runs on AWS with Kubernetes orchestration , using Docker containers and Terraform for infrastructure as code. Git Lab handles our CI/CD pipelines and source management: everything is automated, repeatable, and built to scale .

You have a problem-solving mindset , high standards, and the ability to see difficult work through to completion. You enjoy working in a team of strong specialists, where collaboration is used to understand problems deeply, shape the right solution, and make good architectural decisions before moving quickly into focused execution.

You will:

• Be comfortable working closely with peers during early exploration, prototyping, and design , especially when the shape of the solution is still emerging.
• Be comfortable taking a clear plan, disappearing into focused build mode , and coming back with substantial, high-quality product capability.
• Be confident building complex frontend applications in React, owning features from concept through to delivery.
• Have experience designing and building solutions based on user requirements, not just implementing specs handed to you.
• Care deeply about clean, efficient, reusable code that other strong engineers can understand, extend, and rely on.
• Care about user…