Senior Frontend Engineer — Kuala Lumpur — Remote 

Start: November 2026 - January 2027 

Compensation: RM10,000–12,000/month, with EPF, SOCSO, EIS, HRDF, and group hospitalisation & surgical cover 

Employment: Via Employer of Record 

Stack: Next.js and TypeScript on the frontend, Django backend, hosted on AWS 

What f1gures does 

We build the software financial advisors use to give better advice. The platform pulls together financial data scattered across institutions and products, then applies analytics and machine learning to turn it into something an advisor can act on: a client's financial roadmap, the scenarios worth discussing, the follow-up that shouldn't be missed. 

The questions their clients bring are genuinely hard. How many children can I afford and still retire the way I want? I want a private property by 40 — what's realistic, and when do I upgrade without giving up everything else? Most tools assume the advisor can model that alone. We give them the structure to do it properly, and the client sees the result in an interface that makes the trade-offs plain. 

Over 100 advisors use f1gures today, each serving 20 to 80 clients. We expect to be approaching 1,000 advisors within the year 2027. 

Why this role exists 

The frontend was built by an outside agency while we were still working out what the product should be. That approach gave us the flexibility to explore quickly. Now that the product is moving into production, the next step is to bring frontend ownership in-house. 

We're moving from exploration to production, and we want to own our technology outright — the pace of it, the decisions in it, the IP, and the knowledge of how it works. Every month that understanding sits inside another company, we pay a coordination cost and carry a risk we no longer need to. 

You're the person we're hiring to end that. You won't be joining a frontend team; you'll be the frontend. You'll work alongside a backend engineer in Kuala Lumpur, with our platform backend owner and your manager in Singapore. The core team is deliberately small, which means your decisions land in production and stay there. 

You'll help build technology that supports some of the most important financial decisions people make, from buying a home to planning for retirement. The frontend is where complex analysis becomes a product advisors and clients can actually use, giving you a direct influence on how insights are understood and acted upon. You'll also gain exposure to a broad range of financial planning domains, including CPF, insurance, investments, property, retirement planning, and tax. 

What you'll do 

• Ship features and fix bugs in a live codebase 
• Maintain the build and deployment pipeline, including releases, rollbacks, and production troubleshooting 
• Improve test coverage and code quality 
• Introduce frontend monitoring and error tracking where it adds value 
• Keep runbooks, architecture decision records, and technical reasoning current 

What we're looking for 

• Strong Next.js/React and TypeScript experience, with curiosity about how things work beneath the abstractions. 
• Comfort inheriting existing systems and codebases — you enjoy unravelling complexity and building understanding before making changes. 
• Strong problem-framing and communication skills: you can transform uncertainty into actionable questions and align stakeholders around the answers. 
• Someone who cares about the full lifecycle of software — from implementation and deployment to reliability, recovery, and long-term maintainability. 
• An evidence-based mindset: you challenge assumptions, defend ideas thoughtfully, and change course when the facts point in a better direction. 

Nice to have 

• Experience introducing automated testing into an existing application. 
• Experience setting up and maintaining frontend monitoring and observability solutions. 
• Experience taking ownership of applications following a vendor transition or handover. 
• Ability to improve engineering practices and system reliability in established codebases. 

Why work at f1gures 

We're a lean engineering team where ownership is real, decisions are made quickly, and good ideas can shape the direction of the product. We're growing quickly, and our engineering team is growing with us. In a close-knit environment, you'll have meaningful ownership, broad visibility into how the business operates, and the opportunity to help shape both the product and the engineering practices that support our next stage of growth. You'll also gain a firsthand view of how financial advice, technology, and commercial strategy come together in a growing fintech business. 

If you're looking for a role where your impact is visible, your ideas matter, and your growth can accelerate alongside the company, you'll find plenty of opportunities here. 

Onboarding and milestones 

You'll begin with an onboarding week in Kuala Lumpur and a structured handover covering the codebase, architecture, APIs, deployment processes, known issues, and technical shortcuts. 

The agency will remain available while you take ownership of the frontend and build confidence in the system. 

By month three, we expect you to be shipping routine changes to production independently. By month six, you should have a clear, evidence-based view of what should change, what should stay, and why. 

How we interview 

Two conversations. No take-home. 

Technical discussion — 90 minutes. We send you a small repository 20 minutes beforehand and work through it together: orient yourself, diagnose a bug described the way a user would describe it, make a small extension, then tell us what you'd improve and what you'd deliberately leave alone. We'll push back on some of your decisions. That's the point — we want to see how you reason, not whether you agree with us. 

Direction and offer — 45 to 60 minutes. With our CEO: the product, where engineering is heading, and what you can expect from us. 

Terms 

Employment through an Employer of Record with full Malaysian statutory contributions. Six-month probation with written objectives agreed at offer. Remote-first, with an onboarding week in Kuala Lumpur and periodic on-site collaboration after that. 

If you're excited by the challenge of owning and evolving a production system end-to-end, rather than simply maintaining one, we'd love to talk. Candidates with a notice period are welcome to apply.