Senior Backend Engineer, Bits
4-5 days a week in office (Camden)
Store card for building credit
Job no longer available
Store card for building credit
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
4-5 days a week in office (Camden)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To promote financial inclusion by providing a path to credit for those neglected by mainstream lenders.
Role
Who you are
- Have 6+ years of experience in software development
- Are highly proficient with JavaScript and/or Typescript, HTML, CSS
- Have 3+ years commercial experience with modern frontend frameworks (preferably React)
- Have an eye for detail
- Deliver clean, maintainable and testable code
- Know how to interact with APIs
- Know how to profile frontend apps, pinpoint performance issues and solve them
- Have experience writing automated tests
- Are proactive, a builder (vs maintainer) and own everything you ship
- Have good conversational and written English
Desirable
- Have experience building SaaS products
- Know your way around GraphQL / Apollo client
- Have some backend experience (Node.js / Python)
- Have experience with AWS and its services
What the job involves
- Design, prototype and implement new features end to end
- Work directly with the Founder / CEO, our Product and Design team
- Help develop guidelines and best coding practices for our growing dev team
- See the effects of your work make real-world impact
Application process
- Home assignment
- A 1 hour life coding session and interview
- 2x 15 minute zoom interviews (1 interview with HR and 1 with the CEO)
- That’s it... The whole recruitment process takes about one week and we look to make a decision with that week
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Oftentimes, the advice to those with low credit is to build it up with the careful use of high-interest credit cards. However, this comes with the obvious downside of being high risk as well as high reward. Bits, instead, helps people with low credit to improve their scores with a subscription store card that lets them access in-store savings while quickly raising their credit score.
Millions of people in the UK have difficulty accessing financial services due to their credit scores, so it is no surprise that a number of other startups like Pockit and Portify have emerged offering alternative products for this underserved group. Bits, however, stands out for its unique approach that doesn’t put people into any debt at all - with the company making no money on interest.
As Bits has grown, it has expanded its product and now reports to Equifax and TransUnion on top of Experian. Boasting 300,000 users and a strong rating on Trustpilot, it is clear the company has already made an impact and it will be interesting to see what it does in the future.
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back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2020
$0.2m
SEED
Oct 2018
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $0.4m
Company benefits
- Free fruit in the office
- 28 days holiday, including bank/national holidays
- Laptop and phone of your choosing
- Regular team meals
- Team socials
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
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Leadership
Faisal Khalid
(CEO)A Harvard graduate in Economics, Faisal has over a decade of experience in major payment companies such as American Express. More recently, they founded Paysnapp, an online payment service for low income migrant workers which was acquired by VFD bank.
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