We’re looking for a Senior Front End Engineer to help us build the products needed to transform millions of lives. This is an ideal opportunity for a passionate technologist who wants to further their career and make a positive impact.
Our development teams are split into three pillars: focusing on our planning tool, investment toolings, and back-office tooling. Each pillar contains two product squads.
As a Senior Front End Engineer, responsibilities would include owning delivery of features; ensuring code quality and best practices are met; and mentoring and pairing with junior and mid-level engineers.
Our frontend stack is built on React with Typescript, using MUI as a base for our design system. The backend team provides our API endpoints, written in Go.
We are looking for pragmatists who can work with the existing platform and front end teams, collaborating closely with tech leads, design, backend engineers and product managers.
As the company scales, there will be opportunities in technical architecture and strategy. The role has the potential to evolve into a Tech Lead for the right candidate as the team grows.
About Octopus Money
🐙 We’re on a mission to transform millions of lives by building financial resilience and wealth for everyone 🐙
Money shapes every part of life. Yet most people never get the support they need:
- Half of Brits reach retirement age without enough to live the life they want
- Financial stress is a leading cause of poor mental health
- Only 8% of people have access to 1-to-1 financial advice
There’s no shortage of information. What people actually need is clarity, guidance and a plan that makes sense for them.
That’s where we come in.
Octopus Money brings together financial planning, investment expertise and smart technology so people can understand their options and take action with confidence. We help people build a clear plan for their savings, investments and pensions and make investing simple with managed portfolios built by experts. We also support employers who want their teams to feel more secure and in control.
Some people need regulated advice. Others need coaching. Many need both at different points in life. Our service adapts to what each person needs.
We believe everyone deserves money support that works for real life.
As a Senior Engineer, your day will involve:
- Writing, testing and deploying great software
- Collaborating with the tech leads and other Senior Engineers on deciding future technologies and processes
- Working with modern and new technologies and frameworks
- Working in an Agile team
- Comfortable working on large features and breaking them down into smaller technical tasks
- Building relationships with product and design and collaborating with backend engineers
- Conducting code reviews and pairing with junior colleagues #li-hybrid
In this role, success will be measured by:
- Consistent high quality contributions to our code base
- Positive communication with peers and stakeholders
We value people who:
Make every conversation matter
You care about how you make people feel. You communicate clearly, listen well and build trust with customers and colleagues. You want every interaction to move things forward.
Move with urgency and focus
You like getting stuck in. You care about making progress, not perfection. You stay focused on what matters, learn quickly and find smart ways to keep things moving.
Own it
You take responsibility for your work and the outcomes it creates. You’re comfortable solving problems, making decisions and tackling challenges head on. You hold yourself to a high standard and want to make a real impact.
What we look for
- Senior experience as a software engineer working on production systems in a commercial environment
- Strong TypeScript skills
- Extensive React experience
- Experience working in a Scrum/Agile team
- Experience with RESTful services
Nice to have
- NodeJs
- Design libraries such as Storybook and MUI
The interview process
Our interview process typically includes:
- An intro call with our talent team
- A 90min technical interview with the team
- A 30min interview with our CTO
We’ll keep it simple and respectful of your time, and you’ll meet the people you’ll actually work with. Our average process takes around four weeks but we’ll always work around your availability.
What’s in it for you
In return we offer a base salary of £75,000 to £85,000 DOE + bonus + benefits
We want people to grow here, to feel supported and to feel proud of the impact they make.
You’ll get:
- Hybrid working with 2 days at home each week (Monday and Friday)
- 18 days a year working from anywhere (for non regulated roles)
- Share incentive plan - the shares you buy in Octopus Group are matched at 1.5 times. You read that right, for every share you buy, Octopus gives you 1.5 extra
- Team bonus for non-commission based roles
- Company pension
- Private medical insurance
- Enhanced parental leave
- Birthday day off
- A supportive team who care about what they do
- The chance to help people improve their lives
Please note, as a regulated business we are required to run background checks for all employees which covers adverse financial and unspent convictions. These will only take place upon a successful job offer.
About Octopus Group
We’re part of the Octopus Group: a privately-owned business that’s been doing things differently for 25 years. Octopus sets out to build businesses that will outlive us and create a better world for future generations, including brands such as Octopus Energy, Octopus Investments and Octopus Legacy.
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We believe in equal financial education for everybody, no matter their background. We pride ourselves on building an inclusive working environment where diversity is celebrated.
We do not and never will discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
If you require support completing your application please contact Luke Stepney, Head of Talent at [email protected]
