Engineering Manager, Lendable
Superapp
Equity available
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office
Fintech Unicorn - Lending Platform
Open for applications
Fintech Unicorn - Lending Platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
Equity available
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make consumer finance amazing: faster, cheaper and friendlier.
Role
Who you are
- Engineering management is a varied and changing responsibility, meaning no person or team fits a cookie-cutter template
- We’re interested in the diversity of your experience leading and growing teams
- Perhaps you’ve thrived in rapidly evolving companies, or maybe you’ve led teams that have cracked complex technology problems
- This means we don’t have a strict checklist of experience that we look for
- However, your proven results in the following areas would make you even more suited to the role at Lendable:
- You’ve operated in a B2C Finance environment, especially in consumer credit
- Whilst it’s not essential, understanding how to design, build and run a highly-available customer-facing service would help you be effective quickly
- You’ve delivered products in an FCA (or similar) regulated environment, but you value effectively supporting customers while meeting regulatory requirements without becoming bureaucratic or process-led
- You thrive by leading and evolving cross-functional teams
- You can draw on your experience of bringing together product, design, data science, domain experts and engineers to operate as one super-effective team
- You have proven skills that help the team navigate and lean into the different perspectives and priorities each function brings to the team
- Do you like to move between more hands-off and more hands-on roles as you evolve in your career? If so, we’d love to hear about how that has helped you be more effective as an engineering manager
- We value people who don’t just look to climb hierarchies but appreciate what they can learn from applying their skills to the opportunities they find
- You have been an engineering manager with hybrid or fully distributed teams
- Despite the challenges, you understand how to support and nurture individuals to collaborate and deliver a high-performing team effectively
- Why? We are rapidly evolving our mix of office-based and fully remote staff and would love you to bring your experiences of how to make this work effectively
What the job involves
- In the UK, we are currently focused on scaling our products exponentially
- Our primary objective is to develop a groundbreaking direct-to-consumer proposition that empowers customers to effortlessly apply for and manage all our products within a single app
- This ambitious endeavour entails creating innovative features and seamlessly integrating them with our existing systems in the UK, ultimately delivering a cohesive and exceptional user experience across our entire product range
- To accomplish this, we are seeking an experienced, intelligent, and analytical individual to join us as an Engineering Manager (EM) for our super app team
- As the EM, you will report to the VP of Engineering (UK) and assume day-to-day ownership of the Super App, working closely with the Product Manager to drive its success
- You will be expected to manage ~8 engineers of varying seniority levels and skills including backend, frontend, and full stack specialisms
- The heart of engineering at Lendable is backend PHP and frontend React, however many of our BE services are adopting Kotlin where appropriate and experience across various technologies demonstrating strong core engineering capabilities is highly advantageous
- Support the engineers you manage in your team through 1:1s, where you will have great career coaching sessions, and support their development and growth by regularly setting goals with them
- You will give them actionable feedback that helps them understand what to keep doing and what to work on
- Use your experience and knowledge of High Performing Teams to lead & support the team to become efficient at planning and shipping complex products
- You will engender a Continuous Improvement mindset, and build up a track record of making significant process improvements
- Place a particular emphasis on clear, engaging and empathetic communication, and know how to get buy-in for improvements
- You value different communication tools but know how to deliver your message best (In-person, slack, video, email, etc.)
- You champion asynchronous and remote-friendly working practices
- Use your technical background as an engineer to ask the right questions of the team - is what is being delivered scalable and robust? Does it have good monitoring? How will it be tested? You endeavour to keep your knowledge relevant and can support your team in making good choices
- You will work alongside the Tech Lead
- You would be expected to contribute to the technical delivery by spending up to a quarter of your time pairing with engineers to get to understand our implementation and architecture
- You embrace automation and testing as core “must-haves” of every successful and lean software solution
- Encourage high levels of psychological safety and identify what changes will benefit the team through running regular health checks
- You will look for new ways of increasing the skillset and team health, leading to even better outcomes
- Build a strong working relationship with the team’s Product Manager - they are responsible for the Why, and you are accountable for the How
- You collaborate with business stakeholders, working with the Product Manager to deconstruct their requirements to model optimal, scalable software solutions
- You will use your knowledge of Agile methodologies and ways of working along with tracking and using metrics to hold the team accountable for delivering quality on time
- You are comfortable with the pace and trade-offs of a rapidly evolving scale-up (meaning: know how to take care of yourself and your team; get your work done without burning out; prioritise relentlessly; wear different hats when needed)
- Spend around 10-20% contributing to engineering initiatives like coaching circles, knowledge sharing and guilds or things like improving the engineering hiring processes
Application process
- An introduction call with one of the leadership team (remote)
- Technical Interview (remote)
- People Management and Team Leadership interview (office)
- Project and Delivery interview (office) (Meet the team you will work with daily and the wider team as well)
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
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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
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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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