Kotlin Engineer, Lendable
+equity
3 days a week in office
Fintech Unicorn - Lending Platform
Job no longer available
Fintech Unicorn - Lending Platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
+equity
3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make consumer finance amazing: faster, cheaper and friendlier.
Role
Who you are
- We're looking for an engineer with a depth of knowledge and recent hands-on Kotlin experience that enables them to not only deliver elegant, idiomatic solutions in Kotlin but also to contribute new knowledge and experience to our frequent collaborative design forums with stakeholders from every area of the business
- Strong commercial Kotlin experience
- An ability to write simple, clean code
- Experience and understanding of databases; relational databases are a must, NoSql would be nice too
- Be able to quickly understand complex, financial business domains
- Understand different software architectures rapidly
- Understands abstraction and interpolation
- Able to write comprehensive, automated tests at all levels of the pyramid
- Understanding of the Kanban agile methodology; not a deal breaker if you don’t
- Someone who can get along with others and build relationships
- Someone who wants to continually learn, improve and collaborate
- Someone who can solve problems on their own but also knows when to go to their peers for help
- Someone who is a rational thinker and is aware of the ‘why’ behind the way they do things
- Someone who is a pragmatist who can sensibly weigh the tradeoffs between code quality and delivery
What the job involves
- As we continue to build upon the diversity of our team we are thrilled to have the opportunity to bring on board a Kotlin engineer to a newly forming pod. This is an opportunity to bring new experience, perspective and capabilities to our design discussions, helping shape our approach to delivering elegant solutions to complex engineering challenges as we continue to grow
- This is the team that put the Tech in FinTech, our current tech team is around 80 strong and have helped transform finance by building a next-generation lending platform, a next-gen credit card, and auto-finance product, and they’re at it again with brand new product launches this year
- There’s a lot to do, from building and integrating new API’s to help build out our new collections function to creating new internal tools and supporting our expansion of new products and supporting services in the US
- We believe that software engineering is more than just code - it’s about people. We believe that the best teams are made of great people. That fundamentally great software engineering is about alignment, sharing what we know and being nice to each other
- When we put all this together we make software engineering better by continually improving our capabilities as a team and making our working environment a happy and productive place
- Work in small, aligned, highly productive teams of exceptional people, trusted to take ownership and make decisions quickly
- Be relentlessly resourceful to solve problems, find smarter solutions than the status quo and fail fast when doing so
- Build the best technology in house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting
- Work for an organisation who cares about the human side as much as the tech
Application process
- A 30 minute introductory call with one of our engineers
- A short coding exercise to complete in your own time
- Tech Interview lasting 60-90 minutes, comprising of:
- Introduction of the team and kind of work you could be doing daily
- Discussion around the coding exercise you completed
- Interactive architecture/design exercise
- Tech project walkthrough
- Cultural/behavioural questions to see if you’d be a good fit for Lendable
- Questions you may have about the company, role, etc
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Lendable competes with banks, other marketplace lenders, and consumer finance companies to provide loans to consumers, small businesses, and property developers. Last year the UK marketplace lenders loaned £7.3bn in total.
Lendable believes it can win in this crowded field due to its market-best customer service and its strong financials. Unlike Zopa, RateSetter, or Lending Works, their funding comes from institutional investors.
It originates and services the loans on behalf of institutional investors, but does not hold them on its own balance sheet.
Growing insolvencies will worry all marketplace lending platforms, but Lendable looks well placed to weather any credit storm given their substantial debt financing.
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40% female employees
72% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"At Lendable I'm in a position to make decisions and engineer solutions on a product that's worth billions and growing all of the time. This brings..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2022
$270.6m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Sep 2017
$6.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $280.4m
Company benefits
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Onsite Yoga
- Lunch cooked by onsite chefs 3 times a week
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Work from home opportunities on Monday and Friday
- Private Health Insurance (inclusive of dental and pre-existing conditions)
- Share Options for all Employees
- Regular team and company wide socials
- Pension
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Founders
Martin Kissinger
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Economics as an undergraduate at LSE before doing an MPhil at Oxford University. Worked as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Rocket in Berlin.
Paul Pamment
(Co-Founder)Studied Mathematics at Oxford University before taking up technical roles at a handful of startups.
Jakob Schwarz
(Co-Founder)Worked as an Analyst at Goldman Sachs and then BCG before founding Lendable.
Victoria van Lennep
(Co-Founder)Worked as the Deputy Editor at the Economist before joining Martin Kissinger to co-found Lendable!
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