Front End Engineer

Intelligent Lending; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in Manchester is seeking a Front-End Engineer to develop and enhance their products. This role offers fully flexible working hours, generous annual leave, and various health and wellness benefits. Ideal candidates will have over 3 years of experience, particularly with React and JavaScript, and a passion for delivering high-quality features. Join a team committed to fostering financial fairness and innovation.

Benefits

Fully flexible working

25 days annual leave

Health Insurance

Dog-friendly office

Free breakfast on Thursdays

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Front-End development.
• Familiarity with TypeScript, JavaScript, and React.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and observability tools.

Responsibilities

• Delivery of new products and features.
• Maintaining and improving existing products.
• Collaborating with product managers and UX colleagues.

Skills

Ownership and learning mindset

Experimenting with new technologies

3+ years experience as Front-End engineer

Developing new features

Tools

AWS

Github

DataDog

Job description

Job Description

TotallyMoney is the free personal finance app that gives people the plans, products and help they need to unlock a life of more choices. It’s all about creating a fairer financial world where people who’ve been left behind can make their financial data work for them. Put simply, we help them move closer towards their financial goals.

Job Requirements

You’ll fit in well if you’re the type of person who :

• Eager to experiment and try new technologies and techniques
• You're someone who takes ownership and who tries to learn as much as possible
• Willingness to take new responsibilities
• Capable of working with minimal guidance to flesh out product requirements and communicate deliverables with stakeholders
• Has alignment with our company values and engineering principles
• Has 3 or more years of experiences as a Front-End engineer
• Proven experience developing new features and products

Previous experience with :

• AWS (or other cloud providers)
• Testing of all descriptions
• CI / CD pipelines
• Github
• observability tools like DataDog

We use these languages / frameworks at TotallyMoney :

• TypeScript and JavaScript
• React and ReactNative
• Node
• NextJs (optional)
• Various state management libraries

Job Responsibilities

As part of the Engineering Team, your responsibilities will include :

• Delivery of new products, features on the web and app
• Maintaining and improving our existing products
• Aiding your squad deliver meaningful outcomes for customers

Here’s what a normal day in the job might look like :

• Taking a requirement and building context around it
• Exploring an idea with your Product Manager or UX colleague
• Refactoring code
• Fixing an issue and pushing it to production

Job Benefits

• Fully flexible working — Work from wherever you do your best work.
• Flexible hours — Our core hours are 7am to 7pm. Fit your hours within that however you like.
• 25 days of annual leave (plus 8 bank holidays), 2 additional free days off at Christmas, and the option to purchase an extra week off. We also finish early with a half day on the last Friday of each month.
• Enhanced parental leave so you can spend time with your new bundle of joy.
• 2 days of volunteer leave for whatever causes you’re passionate about.
• Vitality Health Insurance and reward scheme (includes 50% off Virgin Active gyms), Perkbox membership, wellbeing budgets, and Cycle to Work scheme.
• Access to prayer / quiet rooms with blinds and prayer mats.
• Auto-enrolment pension scheme with Scottish Widows.
• Mental health and wellbeing perks including talking therapies with Self Space, monthly mindfulness sessions, and fortnightly yoga.
• Dog-friendly office — you’ll find a pup or two around.
• Free breakfast on Thursdays during our company meeting.
• Snack cupboard filled with goodies, plus a coffee machine and drinks fridge — help yourself