Frontend Engineers (React/React Native) United Kingdom (Hybrid)

Cleo; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Dental & Vision

Mental health

Sabbatical

Learning platform

Pension

Leave entitlements

Job summary

Cleo in the United Kingdom is hiring a frontend engineer focused on React/React Native to ship delightful mobile experiences that improve users' financial health.

You will collaborate across squads, write tests, use AB tests and feature flags, and help shape product decisions while delivering updates several times a week. The role emphasizes ownership, fast experimentation, and a user-centered approach within a supportive engineering community.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2+ years experience with React Native or React + TypeScript.
• Experience building mobile apps or strong interest in mobile space.
• Strong UI/UX sensibility and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Work on our React Native app to create engaging user experiences.
• Write automated tests to ensure reliable shipping of features.
• Use AB tests and feature flags to iterate quickly and improve the product.
• Analyse user journeys and leverage data to optimize the Cleo experience.
• Contribute to weekly app releases to App Store and Google Play.

Skills

React Native

TypeScript

React

Job description

Most money apps talk at you. Cleo talks back

We're not building another finance app. We're building the world's first AI financial assistant, one that actually understands your money and makes you better at it, and we're changing the world's relationship with money in the process For everyone, whatever their background or balance.

The proof: profitable, fast-growing, a unicorn with over $300M in ARR, and millions of people who now feel differently about their money.

We love original thinkers who challenge the status quo. We move fast, tell the truth, and there's nowhere to hide from good work here. If that excites you more than it scares you, you'll fit right in.

Follow us on LinkedIn for new features and the occasional roast

Meet the Team

Here at Cleo, we have ~200 Engineers organised into Pillars Our stack spans a Ruby on Rails monolith, a single React Native (TypeScript) app frontend, Python for machine learning services, and PostgreSQL, all hosted on AWS and shipped through Kubernetes - backend goes out multiple times a week, app releases to Google and Apple at least weekly. To thrive here, our engineers proactively use our Engineering Principles to guide daily decisions, take ownership of problems beyond their own squad to drive broader impact, and actively drive their own learning, development and growth.

About the role

We’re looking for a brilliant Frontend React/React Native Engineer with an eye for UI/UX design to join us on our mission to fight for the world's financial health. You’ll be joining a team of adaptable, creative and product-focused engineers who ship working software. We understand our customers, we understand their pain, and we are passionate about helping them.

Key responsibilities include:

• Working on our React Native application, building out amazing experiences for our users which bring financial health to life in the unique Cleo tone of voice.

• Writing automated tests alongside your code to give us the confidence to ship it

• Using AB-Tests, feature flags and other tools that let us iterate quickly

• Using data to dig into user journeys, detecting problems and helping to optimise the Cleo experience

• Being part of the rota for our weekly app releases to the Apple and Google app stores

• Getting involved in cross-cutting concerns that lift our entire engineering effort with the rest of the frontend chapter

• Taking part in shaping all the work your squad does, not just the technical parts. Delivery is a team sport, and we encourage everyone at Cleo to share their ideas, so you can expect to be involved in product ideation sessions, user research calls, design reviews, retrospectives, ways of working sessions, product demos, OKR reviews.

Whichever squad and part of the business you land in, you will be shipping changes multiple times a week to our hundreds of thousands of active users and seeing your work having a material impact on the financial health of those most in need.

What We're Looking For

You are passionate about making a positive difference in society by improving the financial health of our users. You align with our company values and engineering principles, which drive our ways of working and software delivery.

For this frontend focused role, we also have some specific asks:

• We’re looking for someone with strong industry experience of using React Native or React with TypeScript for a minimum of 2+ years.

• As your work will primarily involve working on features for our mobile apps, we’d either like to see some proven experience in this area or a genuine passion for moving into the mobile app space.

What we offer

We offer benefits package built to support you in and out of work. Benefits vary by country and include:

• meaningful equity
• comprehensive health
• dental and vision insurance
• mental health support
• a paid one-month sabbatical after four years
• a learning and development platform
• pension or retirement contributions
• location-specific leave entitlements

For the full breakdown on what's available in your location, visit our Candidate Hub.

What Matters

Cleo's mission is to change the world's relationship with money. We can't do that without building a brilliant, genuinely diverse team - and making sure our hiring process gives everyone a fair shot, running a fair and transparent recruitment process in which every candidate is considered on their metris.

We're glad to make reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process. If there's anything we can do to support you in showing us your best, please let your recruiter or one of the team know.

We may use AI-assisted tools during the recruitment process to take support the team in different ways like taking notes or referring back to conversations. They do not replace the team and all applications are reviewed by a Cleo employee thoroughly!