Front-End Engineer

About The Role

We're looking for a Front-End Engineer who will own and elevate the user experience across our AI-powered payments and POS platform. You'll build beautiful, responsive interfaces for our Next.js merchant dashboard and React Native terminal and POS applications—creating the experiences that 400+ restaurant and retail businesses interact with every day. You'll work directly with our co-founders and small, agile technical team to make Zavo the most intuitive platform in the industry.

*Compensation: £80,000–£120,000 base salary + equity*

About Zavo

We’re a YC-backed (F25) startup based in London, building an intelligent, all-in-one platform to replace today’s fragmented restaurant tech stack.

Zavo powers card payments, POS, and AI for 400+ restaurants and retail businesses. We’re backed by leading global investors, growing revenue rapidly, and moving fast to define the next generation of restaurant technology.

What You'll Do

Build and ship frontend features across our Next.js merchant dashboard

Develop React Native interfaces for our terminal software running on payment devices

Create pixel-perfect, responsive UIs that restaurant owners and staff love using

Collaborate closely with design and backend engineers to ship cohesive features

Optimize frontend performance and user experience across web and mobile

Work directly with co-founders—your ideas and code ship fast and make real impact

What We're Looking For

Deep expertise in React and Next.js—you've shipped production apps that real users depend on

Experience with React Native for mobile development (or strong desire to learn)

3-5+ years building frontend experiences with obsessive attention to detail

Strong understanding of modern CSS, responsive design, and frontend performance

Founder mentality—you treat this like your own company and do whatever it takes

Customer obsession—genuinely excited about building products for restaurant owners and merchants

High agency and comfortable with ambiguity—we're a small team moving fast

Based in London (hybrid)—we need in-person collaboration with the team

UK work authorization—we can't sponsor visas at this stage

*Why Zavo*

YC-backed with very strong revenue and momentum (400+ merchants and growing)

Work directly with founders on high-impact problems

Modern frontend stack—Next.js, React Native, TypeScript, Tailwind

Real product ownership—you'll ship features that merchants use every day

Early-stage equity with real upside potential

London-based team with a collaborative, all-in culture

The Pay Range For This Role Is

80,000 - 120,000 GBP per year(Hybrid (London, England, GB))