Software Engineer - Frontend

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 Frontend Software Engineer to join a growing team, working on our UK lending platforms, Lendable and Autolend, which have served over 750,000 customers since launch, as well as providing white label consumer lending for household name brands.

Working as part of a cross-functional product team on a browser-based web stack, you’ll deliver the key features that make us successful. You will produce well-architected, well-tested software that lasts.

Outside of work with your direct team you’ll also contribute to our frontend guild, where we come together to define and refine our processes across the product teams, helping to set out the future for Lendable’s web and mobile applications as we scale and adapt to support new ventures (we’re currently working on refactoring our React codebases to use a shared cross-product component library), and new territories (in 2022 we expanded into the US lending market).

The Team = this is the team that put the Tech in FinTech, our current engineering team is around 85 strong and has helped transform finance by building a next-generation lending platform in both the UK and the US, a greenfield credit card product, and a successful motor finance product. Our team stands for teamwork, resilience, excellence, and kindness, and we are looking for someone with the same mindset :)

Our Tech Stack

Web

• Typescript, React, NextJS, SCSS, Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, Redux

Mobile Apps

• Typescript, React Native, Jest, React Testing Library, Detox, MobX, Skia

Backend

• PHP 7/8 (Symfony), Node.js, AWS, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Docker,Kubernetes

Tooling

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

• Jenkins, but we’re in the process of migrating CI pipelines to Github Actions

• Bugsnag, Datadog & Sentry for debugging and reporting

• Figma & Storybook, for our design process

For more information about how we work you can also check out our blog and read more about our workplace culture.

About You

• You have a solid understanding of Javascript fundamentals, with proven Typescript experience. You love frameworks like React, Vue, and Express, but you also know when they’re the wrong tool for the job

• You are a great communicator and love working with other people from different disciplines like Product Owners, Backend Developers, Devops to build great products

• You understand the continued value of correctly structured and accessible HTML in modern frontend development, and the best practices for architecting styling on large-scale websites and applications, whether using traditional CSS or newer CSS-in-JS approaches

• You clearly understand the benefits of automated testing in software development, and can explain the value of different testing phases and approaches

• You’re an advocate for accessibility, and are familiar with the approaches and tooling required to ensure web accessibility guidelines and best practices are adhered to

• You’re especially familiar with the intricacies of building for web users on a variety of platforms, devices and browsers
  

What would make you stand out

• You’ve helped to build or maintain a shared component library, and other technical elements of a design system

• You’ve worked with OpenAPI/Swagger specifications to help define REST 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 browser performance best practices and debugging

• You understand the needs of products that serve multiple regions, across multiple languages, currencies, and timezones

• You have experience of UI or UX design. You feel at ease discussing approaches with product designers, and are happy to get involved in making design decisions where required

• You worked on, products that have scaled from zero users to tens or hundreds of thousands (or more), and can apply what you learnt in new contexts
  

Interview process

• A quick video 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
    

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