Staff Frontend Engineer

Lendable; London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company in London seeks a Staff Frontend Engineer to join its UK Cards team. The ideal candidate will have strong skills in Typescript and React/NextJS to enhance a key web platform. You will work on optimizing user journeys, ensuring accessibility, and contributing to wider engineering initiatives. The position allows for remote work on Mondays and Fridays and offers a supportive, inclusive environment with competitive compensation.

Benefits

Best-in-class compensation

Health insurance

Remote work options

Fully stocked kitchen

Inclusive workplace

Qualifications

• Experience working with product owners to deliver tasks.
• Passionate about building high-performing teams.
• Mentoring and supporting other engineers.
• Expert understanding of Javascript with Typescript.
• Strong understanding of NextJS and server-side rendering.
• Identify and advocate for code improvements.

Responsibilities

• Join a cross-functional team delivering new features.
• Build out new user journeys and optimize conversion rates.
• Maintain, refactor & improve the codebase.

Skills

Typescript

React

NextJS

GraphQL

Machine learning

Accessibility

Tools

PHP 8 (Symfony)

Kotlin

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

About Lendable

Lendable is on a mission to make consumer finance amazing: faster, cheaper, and friendlier. We're building one of the world’s leading fintech companies and are off to a strong start:

• One of the UK’s newest unicorns with a team of just over 600 people

• Among the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK

• Profitable since 2017

• Backed by top investors including Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs

• Loved by customers with the best reviews in the market (4.9 across 10,000s of reviews on Trustpilot)

So far, we’ve rebuilt the Big Three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards and car finance. We get money into our customers’ hands in minutes instead of days.

We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do: we’re going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions worth of financial products are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes.

Join us if you want to

1. Take ownership across a broad remit. You are trusted to make decisions that drive a material impact on the direction and success of Lendable from day 1

2. Work in small teams of exceptional people, who are relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status quo

3. Build the best technology in-house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting

About the role

We have an opening for a Staff Frontend Engineer to join our UK Cards team, with strong Typescript and React/NextJS experience, to work on one of our key web platforms. You’ll join a cross-functional team tasked with delivering new features and technical refinements on one of our fastest growing products, Zable.

There’s much to do, from work to build out new user journeys and optimise conversion rates in our existing funnels, and answering questions with experiments and fast iteration, to maintaining, refactoring & improving our codebase and tooling.

Our ideal engineer is detail focused and resourceful, and keen to understand the bigger picture outside of their product team, contributing to wider engineering and business initiatives that help us further scale our products as we continue to grow.

Our tech stack

Mobile

• Typescript, React Native, Expo, GraphQL, Relay, Jest, React Testing Library, Maestro

Web

• Typescript, React, NextJS, Redux Toolkit, SCSS Modules, React Testing Library, Cypress, Turborepo

Backend / Infrastructure

• PHP 8 (Symfony), Kotlin, MySQL, RabbitMQ, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes

Tooling

• ArgoCD and Github Actions

• Github, Jira & Confluence, for our code & product management processes

• Datadog & Sentry, for debugging and reporting

• Figma, for our design process

What we're looking for

• You have experience working with product owners to break down business requirements into deliverable tasks and estimate the complexity of their implementation. You can quickly identify the difficulties of implementing a feature from an initial design wireframe or outline spec and work together to propose alternative approaches where appropriate

• You are passionate about building high-performing teams. You organise work streams in conjunction with the product owner, and look for optimisations that will improve team performance and happiness, while driving individual accountability for delivery

• You have experience mentoring and supporting other engineers, alongside engineering managers, working to encourage their personal and professional growth, and enabling them to succeed.

• You have an expert understanding of modern Javascript with Typescript

• You are an expert in NextJS and server-side rendering and using the App Router

• You have a strong understanding of the different needs of mobile users across a variety of platforms and devices

• You set the standard for automated testing in your team, and take a pragmatic approach to implementing and improving the various phases of the testing pyramid

• You can quickly identify and assess technical debt and are a vocal advocate for prioritising code improvements alongside feature work when the opportunity arises

• You understand the importance of catering to users with accessibility needs, and are familiar with the approaches and tooling required to ensure accessibility guidelines and best practices are adhered to.

What would make you stand out

• You’ve lead teams which have built, or worked on, products that have scaled from zero users to tens or hundreds of thousands (or more), and can apply what you learnt in new contexts

• You’ve used GraphQL in a production environment

• You’ve built and launched new products and grown the audience

• You have in-depth experience of mobile performance best practices and debugging

• You’ve employed staged rollouts and multivariate testing approaches to release new features and test hypotheses

• You have experience of UI or UX design. You feel at ease discussing approaches with product designers, and are happy to get involved in making design decisions where required

Interview process

• A quick video call with a member of our talent team to learn more about you

• A 30-minute video call with the hiring manager to discuss your experience and answer any initial technical questions you have about the role

• A short React coding exercise to complete in your own time

• A technical session with your peers where you’ll discuss your solution to the exercise, talk through some problems and scenarios, and dig deeper into your technical experience

• An interview with an Engineering Manager to explore your motivations and goals, assess how you could play a part in your team’s success, and better understand how we could help you thrive in your role.

Life at Lendable

• The opportunity to scale up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies.

• Best-in-class compensation, including equity.

• You can work from home every Monday and Friday if you wish - on the other days, those based in the UK come together IRL at our Shoreditch office in London to be together, build and exchange ideas.

• Enjoy a fully stocked kitchen with everything you need to whip up breakfast, lunch, snacks, and drinks in the office every Tuesday-Thursday.

• We care for our Lendies’ well-being both physically and mentally, so we offer coverage when it comes to private health insurance

• We're an equal-opportunity employer and are looking to make Lendable the most inclusive and open workspace in London

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