Front-End Engineer at Zavo – London, England

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

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.

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.

• 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

• 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

• 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