Solance is the new tier in banking. We are a trusting financial partner, specialised in servicing clients with complex corporate structures and offering tailored financial services for exceptional clients. Think Credit Suisse's service DNA spliced with Revolut's tech genius; Solance is that hybrid, engineered for the best experience you've ever had with finance.
With our EMI license application in progress and our launch set for early 2026, we're building a bright, ambitious team to shape Solance from the ground up. A team that's ready to rethink the rules, simplify the complex and bring clarity and care to every client interaction.
We're not here to build just another EMI. We're here to create the most loved B2B financial services provider in the market, and we need you to help make it happen.
We've got Payments, FX, and Cards in the pipeline, but we want more than "industry standard". We want products that make clients think: ‘Wow, I didn't know banking could be as easy and fun like this.
About This Role:
You'll report directly to the CTO and will be responsible for designing and implementing a greenfield, full suite React Native UI layer for a new Banking Service.
Solance will set dramatically higher standards of banking service excellence for our business customers.
You will also have the rare opportunity to shape a collaborative, business-curious engineering culture that values delighting our customer while building cutting edge cloud-based payments and banking related capabilities.
What's exciting about this role
- Greenfield + Cloud-native - zero legacy systems, full freedom to build the right architecture from scratch using design and analytics best practices
- Single UI codebase - get deep into building a modern UX design and stack
- Real ownership - influence high-impact decisions and own the results, from tech stack and tooling decisions to automated infrastructure to UX to security, compliance and beyond
- Founding team - contribute to building a results-based engineering culture grounded in business curiosity, technical excellence, mentorship and automate-first thinking
- End-to-end scope - work across Web & Mobile UX development, customer journey, brand & voice & tone, zero-downtime deployments, SRE, Test automation and whatever else comes your way. You will have direct access to a growing team of onsite full stack engineers and business leaders up to and including the CEO who is our founder and product evangelist
We are business-curious people who love what we work at. We are committed to scalable solutions and solving tough problems. We value action over analysis and respect for people is key to our success. We are working together to build something meaningful for banking customers, from the ground up.
Your Responsibilities:
As the Senior UI Engineer, your role will encompass the following:
- UI & UX Design: Develop and oversee the Customer channel and Internal Team UIs and UX, collaborate with the Tech team on architecture of our tech solutions, ensuring delightful UIs, scalability, security, and performance
- Engineer mentorship: Coach engineering team members (full stack and junior team members) on UX principles, providing guidance on best practices and engineering processes to introduce and maintain highest standards
- Code & framework development: This is an individual contributor role so coding and actively contributing to the development of core features and functionality will be the main part of the role
- Collaboration across the business: Work closely with business SMEs, UX & Product Design and other stakeholders to ensure alignment of technology with the business objectives and help translate that into efficient solutions for the Full stack engineers to implement
- Quality Assurance: Establish a robust UI testing practice across channels and ensure adherence to coding standards throughout the development lifecycle.
- Technology Research: Stay ahead of the curve by researching new technologies and recommending solutions that can enhance our offerings.
- Compliance and Security: Work with compliance and risk team members to implement security measures that safeguard sensitive financial data across all our UIs
Requirements
- 5+ years deep experience in agile software design & development for Mobile & Web with React Native core and other libraries for multi-channel deployment (iOS, Android & Web)
- Ideally 5+ years' experience in some or all: Banking, payments processing, KYC, AML, Customer onboarding, UX, Data analytics
- Significant experience in multiple UI technologies and frameworks, MFA implementation, SSO, Offline first, local storage, deep linking & Notifications cross channel
- Strong experience in converting Figma's into pixel perfect implementations
Extensive experience in UI code deployment, release, testing, observability, user behaviour tracking and analysis and alerting principles and standards preferred
- Familiarity with accessibility, internationalisation, scalability, reusability and atomic design
- Proven ability to work within a small, agile team where requirements are defined by the team rather than through a larger corporate type of process, you’re part Business analyst, part Scrum Master as well as a top-notch engineer!
- A proven track record in prioritising automation for velocity and quality as an investment in the business
- Extensive experience in creating standards and mentoring of Software engineers in UI design, implementation, testing, automation, code quality and cyber security
- Significant experience in converting business requirements into tech requirements with close business collaboration
- Some experience in architecture, mentoring of Full Stack Engineers and build DevOps/SRE automation for UI deployments
- Strong experience in assessing and implementing improved development tooling and practices including proven AI Tooling
- Experience in both UI development and visual design is a big plus; we're looking for someone who can also be the visual ambassador of Solance.
Why Join Us?
- To become part of a startup with a bold vision to redefine the global financial services landscape
- To enjoy the freedom and responsibility to make a significant impact from day one
- To collaborate with a passionate, driven team that values innovation and customer-centricity
- To help build a culture and workplace you're proud to call your own
Let's build the future of banking together!
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