Senior Software Engineer, Lendable

React Native, Contract

Salary not provided
React
TypeScript
React Native
JavaScript
Jest
Firebase
Wireframe
Senior level
London

3 days a week in office

Lendable

Fintech Unicorn - Lending Platform

Job no longer available

Lendable

Fintech Unicorn - Lending Platform

201-500 employees

FintechB2CMarketplacePersonal financeLendingCustomer service

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
React
TypeScript
React Native
JavaScript
Jest
Firebase
Wireframe
Senior level
London

3 days a week in office

201-500 employees

FintechB2CMarketplacePersonal financeLendingCustomer service

Company mission

To make consumer finance amazing: faster, cheaper and friendlier.

Role

Who you are

  • You have a solid understanding of modern Javascript with Typescript
  • You have commercial experience with cross-platform mobile development using React Native
  • You have a strong understanding of the different needs of mobile users across a variety of platforms and devices
  • You are an advocate for automated testing, and take a pragmatic approach to implementing and improving the various phases of the testing pyramid
  • You can quickly identify and assess technical debt and are keen to make the case for remedying it whenever the opportunity arises
  • You understand the importance of catering to users with accessibility needs, and are familiar with the approaches and tooling required to ensure accessibility guidelines and best practices are adhered to
  • You have experience working with product owners to break down business requirements into deliverable tasks and estimate the complexity of their implementation
  • You can quickly identify the difficulties of implementing a feature from an initial design wireframe or outline spec and are comfortable putting forward alternative approaches where appropriate
  • You have experience mentoring and supporting other engineers, playing a role in their personal and professional growth, and enabling them to succeed

Desirable

  • You’ve used Firebase to support product functionality, in particular with Firebase Remote Config and Firebase Cloud Messaging
  • You’ve worked with OpenAPI/Swagger specifications to help define API requirements and contracts, collaborating with backend developers to agree on best approaches when scoping work that requires new and updated schemas
  • You have in-depth experience of mobile performance best practices and debugging
  • You’ve employed staged rollouts and multivariate testing approaches to release new features and test hypotheses
  • 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’ve built, or 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

What the job involves

  • We’re looking for a Senior React Native Engineer to join our Zable Credit Card team, joining a cross-functional team building and refining features for our existing iOS & Android applications, used by over 450,000 customers
  • Over the last 6 months we’ve introduced new features like Variable Recurring Payments with Open Banking, enabled customers to instantly spend upon approval using Apple & Google Pay, and expanded our offering by introducing loan offers for eligible customers from our sister product, Lendable
  • Our next focus is on continuing to build key features that delight customers and drive self-serve automation as we surpass half a million customers, allowing our cardholders to manage as many aspects of their account directly via our apps as possible
  • Alongside feature work we also put a big focus on improving performance, reducing tech debt, and improving scalability
  • Our ideal engineer is detail focused and resourceful, and keen to understand the bigger picture outside of their product team, contributing to wider engineering and business initiatives that help us scale our UK and US based products as we continue to grow

Application process

  • A 1 hour video call with our hiring manager to discuss your experience and answer any initial technical questions you have about the role
  • A 45 minute Tech Interview
  • Final interview with our Group Product Manager

Salary benchmarks

Otta's take

Xav Kearney headshot

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.

Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

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

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.

Worked as the Deputy Editor at the Economist before joining Martin Kissinger to co-found Lendable!

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