PlannerPal

Frontend Engineer

• Own the technical design and architecture of key features and integrations
• Act as a technical partner to key customers and strategic partners , co-designing new product capabilities
• Lead and coordinate the work of a team of engineers in India
• Remain hands-on in development ~50% of the time
• Own the end-to-end solution design for core adviser journeys – including user authentication, meeting recording and transcription, management of user preferences, and integrations with 3rd party tools used by advice firms (e.g. CRM systems, Microsoft Office, corporate SSO providers).
• Translate product requirements and partner/customer needs into clear technical designs, architecture diagrams, and implementation plans.
• Make pragmatic decisions about trade-offs (scope, performance, scalability, security) in a fast-moving environment.
• Act as the day-to-day technical and delivery lead for a team of engineers in India.
• Define and manage the work: break down features into clear tasks, estimate effort, set priorities and timelines, and track progress to ensure on-time delivery.
• Run or participate in ceremonies (stand-ups, planning, reviews) with the offshore team to keep work aligned and unblock issues quickly.
• Review and give feedback on the solutions and output from the outsourced team (designs, pull requests, implementation approaches).
• Ensure effective collaboration and communication across time zones between the UK team and the India-based team.
• Design, build and optimise the core journeys of our service using our tech stack: Backend: Node (Sails.js) Frontend: Nuxt 3 (Vue) Data / Infra: MongoDB, AWS (Cognito, S3, SES, ECS etc.), Jenkins
• Take ownership of complex or high-impact pieces of work, especially where the architecture, integrations or performance considerations are non-trivial.
• Write high-quality, testable code and contribute to our continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
• Work closely with key customers and strategic partners (e.g. core integrations such as Iress Xplan) to co-design new product features and integrations.
• Join selected customer and partner calls as the technical lead – clarifying requirements, exploring solution options, and explaining technical constraints in plain language.
• Partner with the CPTO and product team to ensure customer feedback is translated into robust, scalable product capabilities and then into clear work packages for the offshore team.
• Take ownership of technical design and architectural decisions as part of a small, fast-moving team.
• Help evolve our platform architecture for performance, resilience, observability and security as we scale.
• Work with the outsourced partner to ensure agreed standards are met (tests, performance, security), without needing to build every process from scratch yourself.
• Identify and drive improvements to developer experience, tooling and internal processes (e.g. testing, release, monitoring, on-call), in collaboration with both in-house and outsourced engineers.

Lead Full-Stack Engineer, Node/Sails – Vue/Nuxt

• Design, build and optimise the core journeys of our service for advisers and colleagues - including user authentication, meeting recording and transcription, management of user preferences, and integration with 3rd party software tools used by advice firms (e.g. CRM systems, Microsoft Office, corporate SSO providers)
• Collaborate closely with the CPTO and wider engineering team to deliver production-ready features that improve adviser productivity and client experience
• Write high-quality, testable code and contribute to continuous integration and deployment pipelines
• Take ownership of technical design and architectural decisions as part of a small, fast-moving team

Lead Full-Stack Engineer, Node/Sails – Vue/Nuxt

Mid/Senior Full-Stack Engineer – Node/Sails, Vue/Nuxt