Software Engineer - PHP

About Lendable

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 >200 people
• Among the top 10 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 (4.9/5 across 10,000s of reviews)

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 these are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes. 

Join us if you want to

• Work in small teams of exceptional people trusted to take ownership and make decisions quickly.
• Be relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status quo.
• Build the best technology in-house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting.

What's the job

We’re looking for a PHP engineer to join our engineering team. This is the team that put the Tech in FinTech, our current tech team is around 85 strong and has helped transform finance by building a next-generation lending platform, and a next-gen credit card and they’re at it again with another brand new product launching this year. 

There’s a lot to do, from building and integrating new APIs to further improve the customer journey and optimising the lending platform to deep architectural discussions and development of brand-new product platforms.

Our Tech Stack

Backend

• PHP 8
• Symfony 5
• AWS
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• RabbitMQ
• Docker
• Kubernetes
  

Frontend

• React & React Native, TypeScript, MobX, Redux, Stylus and SASS

Other

• Jenkins and CircleCI - we deploy to production as soon as we finish a feature 
• Behat, PHPUnit, Jest, Selenium and Detox for automated testing

What we’re looking for

• Strong, modern PHP development experience (PHP 7.2+ is a must)
• A good understanding of a modern PHP framework like Symfony, Zend or Laravel
• Strong understanding of abstraction and interpolation
• Strong automatic testing skills
• A keen desire to want to learn and input into a highly collaborative team 
• If you’ve worked in a Kanban environment, it would be a plus but not needed

Interview process

• A quick phone call with one of the team
• A short coding exercise to complete in your own time  
• Onsite or Video Interview 
  • Discuss the exercise you completed
  • Meet the team you’ll work with daily 

Check out our blog

We also have an engineering blog where we have written in more detail about how we work in the engineering team.

Life at Lendable (also check out our Glassdoor page)

• 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 we all come together IRL to be together, build and exchange ideas
• Our in-house chef prepares fresh, healthy lunches in the office every Tuesday-Thursday
• We care for our Lendies' well-being both physically and mentally so we offer the highest coverage of private health insurance
• We organise an annual trip with the whole company, to celebrate our milestones and reflect on our achievements