Frontend Engineer

About

Scalable Capital is a leading digital investment and banking platform with a full banking licence, empowering people across Europe to shape their own finances. Scalable Broker makes it easy and affordable for clients to invest professionally in stocks, ETFs, cryptocurrencies, and derivatives, as well as set up savings plans. Scalable Wealth, the digital wealth management service, offers clients professional investment in ETF portfolios, and is also adopted as a white-label solution by banks and other B2B partners. The company’s offerings are rounded off by attractive interest rates, loans, and private equity. With the European Investor Exchange, Scalable Capital offers an exchange specifically for retail investors. Over one million clients have already entrusted more than €30 billion to the platform. Founded in 2014, Scalable Capital now employs over 700 people across Munich, Berlin, Vienna, Milan, and London.

Job Description

Shape the future of Scalable’s new fully vertically integrated investment and banking platform. Scalable’s Broker, digital Wealth Management, and Credit offerings are seamlessly integrated into a newly developed technology platform.

As a Frontend Engineer, you will be a key member of one of our product teams responsible for designing and building powerful, intuitive UIs that support critical processes, from transaction monitoring to corporate action workflows and operational dashboards. Our frontend stack is built on React and TypeScript, with strong foundations in component reuse, design systems, and testable architecture.

You’ll collaborate closely with internal stakeholders to understand complex workflows and translate them into well-structured, maintainable user interfaces.

This role is a great fit if you care about clean UX even in utility-driven environments, enjoy working closely with backend and platform engineers, and want to make a direct impact on the scalability and efficiency of a fast-growing fintech company.

Responsibilities

• Work with cutting-edge technologies and participate in modern software development practices (e.g., agile and self-managed teams, continuous integration and deployment, test automation, cloud-based infrastructure, and tooling).
• Engage with our cloud-native, DevOps-enabled infrastructure, utilizing AWS services like ECS, Fargate, Lambda among others.
• Write clean, testable, maintainable, and well-documented code and treat security as a first-class citizen.
• Bring products to production and reveal real business value.
• Improve engineering excellence in the team.

Qualifications

• A university degree in a relevant field of study (e.g., computer science, engineering) or a comparable qualification.
• Previous work experience in frontend development, in technologies like Typescript, React, NextJs, Cypress, WebPack, Material Design, Express, HTML5, CSS3.
• A strong passion for outstanding UI/UX, web performance, and accessibility.
• Ability to think outside the box and to work independently.
• Analytical proficiency, both in the technical and in the product domain.
• Excellent communication skills that are clear, concise, and targeted towards your audience - engineering, product, or other stakeholders.
• Practical experience in AWS or another cloud provider.
• Professional proficiency in English.
• Experience using coding agents (e.g., Codex or similar AI-assisted development tools) is a plus.

Additional Information

• Be part of one of the fastest-growing and most visible Fintech startups in Europe, creating innovative services that have a substantial impact on the lives of our customers.
• Work with an international, diverse, inclusive, and ever-growing team that loves creating the best products for our clients.
• Be productive with the latest hardware and tools.
• Learn and grow by joining our in-house knowledge sharing or career development sessions and spending your individual Education Budget.
• Learn and experience German culture first hand by joining our free German language classes.
• International relocation support is provided if required.
• Opportunity to work from abroad.
• Benefit from an attractive compensation package and from the company pension scheme.
• Monthly contribution of 50% for the ‘Deutschland Jobticket’.
• Say goodbye to order commissions and say hello to your complimentary subscription of Scalable Capital's PRIME+ Broker.
• Enjoy flexible and discounted sports activities with Urban Sports Club.