Senior Frontend Developer

Shawbrook; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Shawbrook is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive innovation on its Savings Digital platform. You will lead the development of a new mobile app, collaborating with a dynamic team using Agile methodologies to enhance product delivery. This pivotal role is ideal for skilled engineers eager to make a significant impact.

Benefits

Market-leading family-friendly policies

Free access to Headspace

Cycle to work scheme

Minimum of 27 days' holiday per year

Qualifications

• Experience with React Native for mobile app development.
• Strong understanding of front-end testing tools.
• Solid knowledge of cloud fundamentals, ideally with Azure.

Responsibilities

• Leading the development of a new mobile app for savings.
• Creating clean, well-documented code as part of an Agile team.
• Mentoring junior engineers to foster their career development.

Skills

React Native

Front-end testing

Cloud Experience

Microservices

Mentoring & coaching

Job description

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Shawbrook is a specialist bank driven by a purpose to power up ingenuity to create opportunity, every single day.

We offer a diverse range of savings and loan products. From personal and business savings accounts and loans for weddings and new cars, to complex financial credit facilities for businesses requiring significant investment and mortgages for landlords with multiple properties, no two customers are ever the same.

We give our customers the best-of-both worlds; uniquely combining strong digital capabilities with human expertise and ingenuity to deliver the best outcomes. We rise to the challenge of a complex case or unconventional circumstances, and we love to make things happen. By being creative, practical, and personal, we know we can always find the right solution for our customers.

If you’re willing to roll up your sleeves, contribute new ideas and believe anything is possible, you’re our kind of person

Work with us because you:

• Want to be part of a bank built for the dynamics of the modern world
• Relish a challenge and enjoy a fast-paced, innovative, and hardworking culture
• Enjoy finding new and better ways to solve complexity and make things happen
• Want to belong to a diverse culture that stands shoulder to shoulder with minority and underrepresented groups
• Care about society and the environment, and want to be part of a business that cares too
• Want to continue to grow professionally and be the best version of yourself

Job Description

Join us as a Senior Software Engineer in our CTO team, driving innovation in our business-critical engineering projects at Shawbrook, the forefront of fintech banking.

You will be working on our Savings Digital platform to build a brand new mobile app. One of the most exciting and important projects for the future of the bank. Our new Savings platform is in development, and we need an experienced engineer to take ownership of the front-end and guide us on best practices, high-quality solutions and innovative solutions.

This role offers a chance for a skilled engineer to deepen their domain expertise in banking and collaborate with a dynamic team of engineers, using Agile methodologies to drive forward our technical transformation at Shawbrook.

You’ll be an advocate for best-in-class engineering standards and maintain a strong focus on product delivery, You’ll have the chance to make your mark right away as we undergo pivotal, impactful work with truly diverse opportunities to support your development.

Responsibilities:

• Work as part of an Agile product team to further our product delivery objectives, creating simple, clean and well-documented code.
• Lead the development of a new mobile app (Android/IOS).
• Work with the QA team to help create automated tests to ensure the quality of the software.
• Participate in backlog refinement sessions to understand business requirements and take responsibility for implementing the most appropriate solution.
• Utilise engineering best practices and design principles, bearing in mind non-functional requirements around performance and security.
• Work with the support team to assist with deployments and monitoring of services in production.
• Document details of system amendments/enhancements in both your code comments and our online documentation system
• Be an advocate for best practice, mentor and coach junior members of the team to support their development.

Qualifications

• React Native and Expo - You will be helping to build mobile apps and publish via Google Play and Apple App Store
• Front-end testing- You will need experience testing front-end systems, using tools like Playwright or similar, to ensure high-quality code.
• Cloud Experience (ideally Azure)- You will need a solid understanding of cloud fundamentals for the wider migration to the cloud as part of our technical transformation.
• Microservices- You will need a good understanding of microservice architecture and how the front end communicates with our back-end architecture.
• Mentoring & coaching- As a senior engineer, you will be an advocate for best practices and support our more junior engineers in their career development.

Additional Information

Your Wellbeing - We take your health and well-being very seriously by providing a range of benefits to give you and your family peace of mind. These include:

• Market-leading family-friendly policies, such as access to our Maternity, Adoption and Paternity policies from Day 1 of your employment
• Free access to Headspace, a mindfulness & meditation digital health app
• Free access to Peppy, a digital health app that offers personalised support through fertility treatment, becoming a parent, or menopause
• EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) - Offering you support on a wide range of subjects, including financial concerns, mental wellbeing and more general queries around family, work, housing, and health
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounts on gym membership

Your Lifestyle - It’s important you strike the right balance between your work and personal life. We provide benefits to support you when at work and when you’re enjoying your leisure time.

• Minimum of 27 days' holiday per year
• Option to buy or sell holiday days through our flexi-holiday scheme
• Discounts on gym membership nationwide
• Access to discounts on a range of high street and online brands
• Community support and charitable giving

Your Contribution - We’re focused on rewarding those who go the extra mile in helping us achieve our goals.

• Participation in our annual discretionary bonus scheme is designed to reward your contribution to our success
• Proudly Shawbrook recognition scheme focuses on recognising our role models and thanking our colleagues for a job well done

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Banking

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