Senior Frontend Engineer
Company Description
Farther is a rapidly growing RIA that combines expert advisors with cutting-edge technology - delivering a comprehensive, tailored wealth management experience.
Farther’s founders are leaders and innovators from the private wealth industry who possess a unique blend of traditional wealth management, fintech, and technology production expertise. We’re backed by top-tier venture capital firms, fintech investors, and industry leaders.
Joining Farther means joining a collaborative team of entrepreneurs who are passionate about helping their clients and our teammates achieve more. If you’re the type who breaks through walls to get things done the right way, we want to build the future of wealth management with you.
The Role
As a Senior Frontend Engineer at Farther, you'll be part of our dedicated frontend engineering team, working across our entire product suite - from client and advisor experiences to investment management interfaces. You'll build high-quality user interfaces using React, TypeScript, and functional programming principles while setting engineering standards that scale across all our products. Working closely with our backend team, you'll help create cohesive, performant user experiences that serve both our clients and advisors. Senior Engineers have the opportunity to take on technical leadership of key projects while remaining hands-on with development.
Your Impact
- Design and implement frontend architecture decisions that scale across multiple product areas
- Build reusable component libraries and establish frontend standards that ensure consistency across all our applications
- Create responsive, high-performance interfaces for complex financial workflows, from client onboarding to portfolio management
- Lead technical implementation of major features and provide architectural guidance
- Drive adoption of frontend best practices, coding standards, and architectural patterns
- Guide technical design discussions to ensure optimal frontend solutions across projects
- Mentor engineers through code reviews and knowledge sharing
- Contribute to our frontend infrastructure improvements, including our build system and testing frameworks
- Work closely with the backend team to design and implement efficient API integrations
- Provide technical direction for project implementations and architecture decisions
The Ideal Match
- 6+ years of frontend development experience, with a strong focus on React and TypeScript
- Deep understanding of frontend architecture, state management, and performance optimization
- Experience building complex, data-intensive web applications
- Strong foundation in JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and modern frontend development practices
- Proficiency with functional programming concepts and patterns
- Experience leading technical implementation of significant features or projects
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with a bias towards documentation
- Track record of mentoring other engineers and driving technical best practices
- Proven ability to break down complex problems and guide technical solutions
Bonus Points
- Experience with financial data visualization libraries
- Background in wealth management or fintech
- Contributions to open-source projects
- Experience with testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines
- Knowledge of accessibility standards and best practices
Why Join Us
- Everything you need to build the perfect dev station from hardware to software
- Learn & grow through book clubs, seminars, and peer learning sessions
- Full health benefits + 401(k) matching & Roth IRA options
- Unlimited PTO
- An amazing collaborative atmosphere between product, design, and engineering to solve hard problems together
- We don’t use Jira!
Ready to disrupt wealth management? Let's talk!
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