Senior Mobile Engineer

Funding Circle Ltd.; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Mobile Engineer to join their innovative team. In this dynamic role, you will leverage your expertise in React Native to develop and enhance a cutting-edge mobile application that empowers small businesses with flexible financing solutions. Collaborating with a cross-functional team, you will tackle complex challenges, mentor colleagues, and ensure high-quality code through rigorous testing. This is an exciting opportunity to make a tangible impact in the financial sector while enjoying a supportive and diverse workplace culture that values your unique contributions.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Access to free online therapy

Learning allowance

Fitness discounts

Electric Car Scheme

Parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Commercial experience with React.js and React Native, strong mobile automated testing.
• Good knowledge of JavaScript and familiarity with REST APIs and third-party libraries.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate in agile teams to build user experiences for mobile apps.
• Implement business functionality using React Native for iOS and Android.

Skills

React.js

React Native

JavaScript

TypeScript

Automated Testing

REST APIs

Communication Skills

Tools

Firebase

Gradle

XCode

Continuous Delivery Tools

Job description

Senior Mobile Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Senior React Native Engineer who wants to work on an exciting new product, within an already successful financial company. You are comfortable operating in an environment of fast pace and uncertainty and thrive in solving hard problems within a cross-functional team. As a key member of our engineering team, you will play a vital role in building and scaling our Mobile App, empowering businesses to access flexible financing solutions. Your passion for technology and your ability to solve complex problems will be instrumental in driving our mission forward.

Who are we?

We’re Funding Circle. We back small businesses to succeed. At Funding Circle, we believe the world needs small businesses. That’s why we’ve made it our mission to help them get the finance they need to grow. With more than a decade of expertise under our belt, we’ve built a game-changer of a platform with cutting-edge data and technology that’s reshaping the landscape of SME lending. Say goodbye to lengthy applications and hello to lightning-fast decisions! In just minutes, SMEs across the UK can get a decision, giving them access to competitive funding in a flash.

We know that good business is about good people. So we pride ourselves on providing meaningful, human support as well as fast, hassle-free processes to deliver an unbeatable customer experience.

The role

1. Collaborating as part of an agile cross-functional team, as well as technology guilds
2. Building great user experiences for customers
3. Delivering innovation through software
4. Implement business functionality, using React Native, for both iOS and Android
5. Proactively problem solving, identifying and confidently mitigating any risks, issues or control weaknesses that arise in your day-to-day
6. Participate in code reviews, technical discussions and team collaboration
7. Mentor your colleagues
8. Write unit, integration and end-to-end tests to ensure code is well tested
9. QA features to find bugs, usability issues and performance concerns

What we’re looking for

1. Commercial experience with React.js, React Native and the associated ecosystem
2. Strong mobile automated testing experience (unit, integration & end-to-end)
3. Good JavaScript knowledge, ideally including TypeScript
4. Experience with continuous delivery, build pipelines and app releases (both App Store and Play Store)
5. Familiarity with mobile ecosystem tooling such as Firebase
6. Familiarity with Gradle, XCode and other native build tools
7. Ability to work with REST APIs and third-party services/libraries
8. Solid understanding of software engineering principles
9. Experience with code version control
10. Excellent communication, both written and verbal

At Funding Circle we are committed to building diverse teams so please apply even if your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the requirements.

Why join us?

At Funding Circle, we celebrate and support the differences that make you, you. We’re proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and affirmative-action employer. We truly believe that diversity makes us better.

We back our Circlers to build their own incredible career, making a difference to small businesses every day. Our Circler proposition is designed to support employees both in and out of work, and it is anchored around four pillars: Health, Wealth, Development & Lifestyle.

A few highlights:

1. Health: Private Medical Insurance through Aviva, Dental Insurance through Bupa, MediCash, access to free online therapy sessions and exclusive discounts with Hertility for reproductive health support.
2. Wealth: Octopus Money Coach, free mortgage advisor partnership and discounts across numerous retailers through Perks at Work.
3. Development: Dedicated annual learning allowance and full access to internal learning platform.
4. Lifestyle: Wellhub (for fitness discounts), Electric Car Scheme and more!

And finally, we have award-winning parental leave policies supporting parents through enhanced maternity, partner and adoption leave, as well as additional leave for parental bereavement and for fertility treatments.

Ready to make a difference? We’d love to hear from you.