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# Frontend Engineer at APEXX Global

- **Company:** APEXX Global
- **Location:** Lisbon, Portugal
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/apexx/823fbea9-6cb1-4620-af6d-02c76f600c84

## Job description

## HEADLINE:

Job Title: Software Engineer, Frontend Reporting to: Engineering Manager Location: Remote initially, with plans to transition to hybrid working as we expand in the region.

## ABOUT THE ROLE:

APEXX is pioneering payment orchestration, transforming the global payments landscape with cutting-edge technology and innovation. As a leader in Fintech, we're committed to excellence, driving forward-thinking solutions that empower businesses worldwide. We're looking for a Frontend Engineer to build and evolve the customer-facing surfaces of our payments platform. Your work will span lightweight, embeddable JavaScript SDKs and payment components used within merchant checkout experiences, as well as sophisticated web applications that enable enterprise customers to understand, configure, and manage their payments. This is a hands-on engineering role combining deep frontend expertise with exceptional attention to performance, accessibility, and visual craftsmanship. You'll solve demanding engineering challenges ranging from lightweight, resilient checkout components to rich, data-intensive applications that need to remain fast, intuitive, and responsive while working with complex payment data at scale. Payments are critical, security-sensitive customer journeys, and the software you build needs to perform reliably and precisely across browsers, devices, and assistive technologies. Whether you're building an embedded checkout component or a complex dashboard, we expect the same high standard of engineering quality and user experience.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO:

- Design, build, and maintain robust, lightweight, high-performance JavaScript/TypeScript SDKs and payment components that integrate seamlessly into diverse merchant environments, with rigorous attention to isolation, backwards compatibility, browser behaviour, security, accessibility, and performance.
- Build and evolve sophisticated merchant- and internal-facing web applications, creating polished, responsive, and highly performant experiences across complex workflows, large datasets, dashboards, and data visualisations.
- Raise the bar for frontend engineering and visual craftsmanship, translating product and design intent into precise, accessible, and intuitive experiences that perform consistently across browsers, devices, and merchant environments.
- Work confidently across the frontend/backend boundary, understanding underlying services, APIs, and data flows and, where appropriate, designing and building Backend-for-Frontend services to create performant and maintainable frontend experiences.
- Engineer for quality throughout the delivery lifecycle, using appropriate automated testing, performance optimisation, observability, and debugging practices to build reliable software and resolve complex production issues.
- Version, document, and publish client libraries with strong semantic-versioning and backwards-compatibility discipline, and contribute to clear integration guidance that enables merchants to adopt and integrate APEXX capabilities successfully.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering to shape well-architected solutions, challenge assumptions, make sound technical trade-offs, and continuously evolve our frontend architecture, engineering practices, and technology choices.

## ABOUT YOU:

- Proven track record as a Frontend Engineer building sophisticated, high-performance web applications, ideally including both complex application interfaces and software embedded into third-party environments.
- Deep knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS, the DOM, browser APIs, and the fundamentals of how modern web applications behave and perform - beyond expertise in any individual framework or library.
- Strong experience with modern frontend frameworks, preferably React, together with sound understanding of component architecture, application state, data fetching, frontend performance, and modern build and delivery practices.
- Experience building performant, data-intensive user interfaces and visualisations, with a strong understanding of how to present and interact with large datasets without compromising responsiveness or usability.
- Exceptional attention to detail and a strong sense of visual craftsmanship, with a track record of translating designs into polished, pixel-accurate, responsive, and accessible interfaces.
- Strong understanding of browser and web security fundamentals, including cross-origin behaviour, iframes, CSP, CORS, and secure handling of sensitive data, together with a commitment to building accessible experiences to WCAG standards.
- Strong software-engineering judgement and problem-solving skills, with the ability to understand backend architecture, APIs and data flows, make pragmatic technical trade-offs, and quickly learn unfamiliar technologies and domains.

## GREAT TO HAVE:

- Experience building framework-agnostic SDKs, hosted fields, checkout components, or other software designed to run reliably within third-party websites and applications.
- Experience with Backend-for-Frontend patterns and server-side technologies such as Node.js, or deeper experience working across frontend and backend architecture.
- Experience in payments, fintech, or e-commerce, particularly with PCI DSS, payment forms, security-sensitive customer journeys, or other high-scale transactional environments.

## COMPENSATION & BENEFITS:

Great people deserve great rewards. We believe in recognising the impact you make with competitive compensation and benefits that support you both at work and beyond. Whether it's taking time to recharge, looking after your health, working from somewhere new, or investing in your growth, we've built a benefits package designed to help you thrive, because when our people do well, so does APEXX.

💰 Competitive Compensation: We offer competitive salaries that recognise your skills, experience, and the impact you make. 🏖️ Generous Time Off: Annual leave alongside local public holidays, giving you time to switch off and recharge. 🌍 Work From Anywhere: Enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from eligible locations for up to 90 days per year, subject to our Work From Anywhere policy.* 📈 Learning & Growth: We're invested in your development, with opportunities to learn, grow, and build a meaningful career at APEXX. 🏡 Remote to Start, Hybrid as We Grow: You’ll initially work remotely as we establish our presence in the region. As we open our regional office, this role will move to a hybrid working model, bringing our growing local team together while keeping flexibility in how you work. 🎁 Local Benefits: As we build our team in the region, we’re developing a competitive local benefits package designed around what matters most to our people. We’ll share more details as our offering takes shape. If you have any concerns, let your recruiter know!

WHO WE ARE & WHERE WE ARE: APEXX is a global payment orchestration platform with teams across the UK & India, helping enterprise businesses simplify the complexity of payments. For more than a decade, we've been building technology that enables merchants to connect to the world's payment ecosystem through a single, scalable integration. Our platform gives businesses access to 200+ acquirers, 150+ alternative payment methods, and 10+ Buy Now, Pay Later providers, helping them optimise payment performance, improve acceptance rates, and expand into new markets with confidence. Trusted by leading global brands including Ryanair, TUI, Hotelbeds, CarTrawler, Avon, and Jet2, we're redefining enterprise payments by making them smarter, faster, and more reliable. As we continue to grow, so do the opportunities to make an impact. Whether you're building products, solving complex engineering challenges, or supporting the teams behind them, you'll play a meaningful role in shaping the future of global payments at APEXX. To learn more about APEXX and experience the dynamics of being part of our team, feel free to check out the provided media channels below: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/apexxglobal/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apexx.global/?hl=en Main Website: https://apexx.global/ APEXX is an equal opportunities employer committed to encouraging equality, diversity, and inclusion among our employees and eliminating discrimination. We do not accept speculative CVs or candidate profiles from Recruitment Agencies.

## About APEXX Global

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: APEXX Global provides a payment orchestration platform that connects enterprise merchants to the global payments ecosystem through a single API, optimizing costs and boosting acceptance rates.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $25M raised in 2023)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Peter Keenan (CEO & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Financial Services – Payment Orchestration, Fintech
- **Target customers**: Enterprise and high-growth merchants in travel & airlines, retail & eCommerce, mobility & car rental, and digital platforms & marketplaces (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To be the most merchant-centric provider in the payment industry, simplifying the complex global payments ecosystem for enterprise merchants.

## Products & Services
- **Payment Orchestration Platform**: A single API connection that integrates with 200+ acquirers, 150+ alternative payment methods (APMs), and 10+ Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) providers.
- **AIRE (Intelligent Routing Engine)**: Dynamically routes each transaction to the best-performing acquirer, improving acceptance rates by 8–12%.
- **Cost Routing**: Automatically selects the lowest-cost processing option for each payment.
- **Decline Cascading**: Recovers revenue from soft-declined transactions by retrying through alternative acquirers.
- **Revenue Protect**: Protects revenue during acquirer/gateway outages.
- **Consolidated Reporting & Analytics**: Unified payment data and insights for reconciliation, benchmarking, and decision-making.
- **Alternative Payments & BNPL Integration**: Access to digital wallets (Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal) and 30+ BNPL providers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $47M (as of early 2026); annual revenue of $1.7M (LinkedIn estimate)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Forward Partners, MMC Ventures, Finch Capital; strategic partnerships with PayPal, Ryanair, CarTrawler, ASOS, Avon
- **Growth Signals**: Processing volume exceeded £1bn; expanded to offices in New York, Pune, and Bangalore; won successive “Most Disruptive Payment Solution” at the Payments Awards; PCI DSS 4.0 & ISO 27001 certified

## Competitive Advantages
- **Provider-agnostic independence**: No bias toward any acquirer or payment method, ensuring merchants always get the best outcome.
- **Single API integration**: Reduces complexity and operational overhead for multi-market merchants.
- **AI-powered smart routing (AIRE)**: Proprietary engine that dynamically optimizes for cost, approval rate, and performance.
- **Extensive global network**: 200+ acquirers and 150+ APMs in a single platform, enabling rapid market expansion.

## Strategic Focus
- **Global expansion**: Deepening presence in the US and India while continuing to add local payment methods and acquirers worldwide.
- **Enterprise adoption**: Targeting large merchants in travel, retail, and mobility with proven ROI (millions in annual savings).
- **Product innovation**: Enhancing AIRE and Revenue Protect capabilities, and expanding consolidated analytics for CFOs and payment leaders.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “One Team. Three Continents” – collaborative environment across London, New York, and India offices.
- **Engineering focus**: 35% of the workforce is in technical roles (28 out of 64 employees), with a strong engineering team led by a Head of Engineering and a Chief Product & Technology Officer.
- **Growth & impact**: Opportunity to work on a platform processing over £1bn in volume for global brands like Ryanair, ASOS, and Avon.
- **Perks**: 24/7 support, dedicated implementation teams, and ongoing technical account management; recognized as a market leader in payment orchestration with multiple industry awards.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Not explicitly stated; offices are in London, New York, Pune, and Bangalore.

## Sources
1. [apexx.global](https://apexx.global/)
2. [apexx.global (Our Story)](https://apexx.global/our-story/)
3. [uk.linkedin.com](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/apexxglobal)
4. [careers.apexx.global](https://careers.apexx.global/pages/coffee-club)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/APEXX)

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