Web Engineer at LemFi (Formerly Lemonade Finance)

LemFi (YC S21) is building the neobank for African diaspora in North America & Europe. We provide our users with a multi-currency account that allows them to hold, send, and receive money from Africa in any currency for their business and personal banking needs. We are a fast-paced startup with entities in the UK, USA, Canada and Nigeria and you would be required to familiarize yourself with necessary statutory and regulatory requirements in these locations.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Web Engineer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full time
Work mode: Hybrid
Department: Technology

The Role

• You will be a full-stack engineer with main focus on Frontend working on LemFi’s operational "brain", designing the internal software that automates our most critical financial processes.
• Your mission is to transform complex, high-volume back-office tasks like payments operations, fraud investigations, and regulatory reporting into streamlined, front-end functionality.
• You won’t just be building tools; you’ll create efficient internal interfaces that empower our operations teams to move faster and with greater precision.
• By embedding AI and agentic automation into every workflow, you’ll ensure that managing global money movement is as intelligent and effortless as the user experience it supports.

Responsibilities
How You'll Contribute:

• Build & Ship: Design and deliver high-quality, scalable web features using Vue.js, with a strong focus on efficiency, security, and maintainability.
• Own the Experience: Take end-to-end responsibility for features from technical design and implementation to testing, deployment, and production support.
• BFF Development: Implement and maintain backend-for-frontend logic in TypeScript, shaping APIs and data models that serve the needs of the web client efficiently and securely.
• Ensure Reliability: Uphold high engineering standards through automated testing, clean code practices, and proactive monitoring of frontend and BFF services.
• Drive Cross-Functional Impact: Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Backend teams to deliver compliant, customer-centric financial experiences aligned with regulatory requirements.

Requirements
Who You Are:

• Impact-Driven: You focus on delivering meaningful user and business outcomes, not just shipping features.
• Technically Grounded: You have strong experience building business-oriented web applications and are comfortable working with TypeScript on the backend for BFF logic.
• High Ownership: You take responsibility for your work from concept through production and continuously look for ways to improve what you’ve built.
• Collaborative: You communicate clearly with Product, Design, and Engineering, valuing shared success over individual credit.
• Curious: You actively seek feedback and stay up to date with modern frontend patterns, AI tooling, and best practices.

What You'll Bring:

• Experience building production web apps with Vue.js & Nuxt.js
• Strong TypeScript skills, including BFF development
• Proficient in JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SASS
• Experience working with and shaping REST APIs
• Solid understanding of modern frontend architecture, state management & performance optimisation
• Familiar with Git, testing frameworks (Jest/Mocha), build tools & CI/CD
• Working knowledge of cloud environments & Docker
• Hands-on experience using LLMs for coding and daily workflows

Why Join LemFi?

• Love shouldn’t be expensive, yet those working hardest for their families often face predatory fees and banking exclusion. We're changing this.
• At LemFi, you won’t be just a cog in a machine. Whether designing products, scaling operations, or telling our story, you’ll tackle complex challenges with real, immediate impact.
• Your work goes beyond metrics - it puts money back in families’ pockets and offers access to the previously excluded.
• Join us to make a meaningful difference, where high performance is a lifeline for millions.

Application Closing Date
27th February, 2026; at 01:00 WAT

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

The Interview Process

• Chat with a Talent Partner (30 mins)
• Behaviours & Culture (30 mins)
• Pair Programming (60 mins)
• Final Interview (30 mins)