Senior Frontend Engineer (UK Loans)

Lendable is on a mission to make consumer finance amazing: faster, cheaper, and friendlier. We're building one of the world’s leading fintech companies and are off to a strong start:

• One of the UK’s newest unicorns with a team of just over 600 people

• Among the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK

• Profitable since 2017

• Backed by top investors including Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs

• Loved by customers with the best reviews in the market (4.9 across 10,000s of reviews on Trustpilot)

So far, we’ve rebuilt the Big Three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards and car finance. We get money into our customers’ hands in minutes instead of days.

We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do: we’re going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions worth of financial products are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes.

1. Take ownership across a broad remit. You are trusted to make decisions that drive a material impact on the direction and success of Lendable from day 1

2. Work in small teams of exceptional people, who are relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status quo

3. Build the best technology in-house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting

We’re looking for a Senior Frontend Software Engineer, with strong Typescript and React/NextJS experience, to work on one of our key web platforms. You’ll join a cross-functional team tasked with delivering new features and technical refinements on one of our core products, Unsecured Loans (UK).

There’s much to do, from work to build out new user journeys and optimise conversion rates in our existing funnels, and answering questions with experiments and fast iteration, to maintaining, refactoring & improving our codebase and tooling.

Our ideal engineer is detail focused and resourceful, and keen to understand the bigger picture outside of their product team, contributing to wider engineering and business initiatives that help us further scale our products as we continue to grow.

Web

• Typescript, React, NextJS, Redux Toolkit, SCSS Modules, React Testing Library, Cypress, Turborepo

Mobile

• Typescript, React Native, Expo, GraphQL, Relay, Jest, React Testing Library

Backend / Infrastructure

• PHP 8 (Symfony), Kotlin, MySQL, RabbitMQ, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes

Tooling

• ArgoCD and Github Actions

• Github, Jira & Confluence, for our code & product management processes

• Datadog & Sentry, for debugging and reporting

• Figma, for our design process

• You have a solid understanding of modern Javascript with Typescript.

• You have commercial experience with the latest versions of React.

• You clearly understand the benefits of automated testing in software development, and take a pragmatic approach to implementing and improving the various phases of the testing pyramid

• You can quickly identify and assess technical debt and are a vocal advocate for prioritising code improvements alongside feature work whenever the opportunity arises.

• You understand the importance of catering to users with accessibility needs, and are familiar with the approaches and tooling required to ensure accessibility guidelines and best practices are adhered to.

• You are comfortable working with product owners to break down business requirements into deliverable tasks and estimate the complexity of their implementation. You can quickly identify the difficulties of implementing a feature from an initial design wireframe or outline spec and are not afraid to put forward alternative approaches where you feel it appropriate.

• You have experience working on multi-product web applications in a monorepo environment (we use Turborepo).

• You have worked with modern React functionality such as Server Components, and the NextJS app folder, and have a good understanding of how you would approach a migration toward this new architecture.

• You’ve worked with OpenAPI/Swagger specifications to help define API requirements and contracts, collaborating with backend developers to agree on best approaches when scoping work that requires new and updated schemas.

• You have demonstrable experience with web performance best practices and debugging.

• You’ve employed staged rollouts and multivariate testing approaches to release new features and test hypotheses

• You have experience of UI or UX design. You feel at ease discussing design decisions with product managers and designers, and are happy to get involved in putting forward ideas when required

• An introductory phone call with one of the team to talk through the role and your experience, and answer any initial questions you have.

• On-site or Video interview

  • A technical session with your peers where you’ll talk through some problems and scenarios, and dig deeper into your technical experience and knowledge

  • A product and culture fit interview with an Engineering Manager to better understand your ways of working, assess how you could play a part in your team’s success, and get a good idea what we can do to help you thrive in your role.
    

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• The opportunity to scale up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies.

• Best-in-class compensation, including equity.

• You can work from home every Monday and Friday if you wish - on the other days, those based in the UK come together IRL at our Shoreditch office in London to be together, build and exchange ideas.

• Enjoy a fully stocked kitchen with everything you need to whip up breakfast, lunch, snacks, and drinks in the office every Tuesday-Thursday.

• We care for our Lendies’ well-being both physically and mentally, so we offer coverage when it comes to private health insurance

• We're an equal-opportunity employer and are looking to make Lendable the most inclusive and open workspace in London

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