Senior React Web Engineer

Lendable is on a mission to build the world's best technology to help people get credit and save money. 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 700 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.

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

We’re looking for a Senior React Engineer to join our SuperApp engineering group, focusing on the Zable website as a key way customers discover and use our products.

This is the team that owns and improves core customer journeys on the Zable website, from discovery and eligibility through to application and self service, working closely with product, design and backend engineers across multiple domains.

There’s a lot to do as we launch new products, bring Zable to new audiences and continually improve performance and reliability, and you will take ownership for delivering meaningful web features, guiding implementation choices and helping the team ship high quality experiences.

What you’ll be doing/impact on objectives

• Own delivery of significant React features on the Zable website, taking work from idea and technical design through to implementation, release and follow up based on data and feedback.

• Work in a cross functional SuperApp team to break down roadmap items into clear, deliverable tasks, help sequence the work, and keep the board flowing.

• Write clear, maintainable React and TypeScript code that integrates with our existing stack for web (for example React, TypeScript, NextJS, styling and shared components), following team patterns and contributing improvements where it makes sense.

• Raise the bar on testing and reliability by adding and maintaining unit and integration tests, and helping to keep end to end tests meaningful and stable for your area of the Zable website.

• Improve performance and user experience on the Zable website by paying attention to metrics such as load time, responsiveness and error rates, and working with others to address bottlenecks and defects.

• Collaborate in design and discovery with product managers and designers, giving input on feasibility, trade offs and edge cases, and suggesting simpler ways to solve customer problems when you see them.

• Support and mentor other engineers in the team through thoughtful code reviews, pairing sessions and sharing context, so that the whole team can move faster and more safely.

What we’re looking for

• Strong experience building React applications in production, using TypeScript to write clear and reliable front end code.

• Experience working on customer facing websites, with an understanding of modern web engineering concerns such as performance, accessibility and responsive layouts.

• Familiarity with common web tooling in our space, for example React, TypeScript, routing libraries, styling solutions and testing tools such as Jest or React Testing Library.

• Experience with automated testing as a normal part of delivery, including unit and integration tests, and an interest in making tests fast, reliable and useful.

• You care about what you are building and why. Are comfortable working with product managers to refine requirements, and can estimate and communicate about complexity and trade offs.

• Collaborative working style, comfortable giving and receiving feedback in code reviews, pairing with other engineers, and discussing approaches with designers and partners across SuperApp and other domains.

• Nice to have, not required

  • Experience with frameworks used for larger web applications, for example NextJS or similar.

  • Experience working on high traffic or high growth websites.

  • Familiarity with tools for monitoring and debugging web applications, such as Sentry or Datadog.

Interview process

• A quick phone call with one of the team

• A short coding exercise to complete in your own time

• Onsite or Video Interview

  • Discuss the exercise you completed

  • Meet the team you’ll work with daily
    

Check out our blog

We also have an engineering blog where we have written in more detail about how we work in the engineering team.

• 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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