About the role
We’re looking for a Frontend Software Engineer, with strong Typescript and React/NextJS experience, to join our US loans team. This is a cross-functional team tasked with delivering new features and technical refinements on one of our fastest growing products, Unsecured Loans, tackling the toughest and most dynamic credit market in the world, the United States.
There’s lots to do, from building out new user journeys and optimising 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 proactive, product-oriented, detail focused and resourceful, keen to understand the bigger picture outside of their product team and working at pace, contributing to wider engineering and business initiatives that help us further scale our products as we continue to grow.
What we’re looking for
Essential:
3+ years experience
Strong knowledge of modern Javascript with Typescript and React.js.
Commercial experience with the latest versions of NextJS.
Good understanding of the benefits of automated testing in software development, and take a pragmatic approach to implementing and improving the various phases of the testing pyramid
Able to identify and assess technical debt and are a vocal advocate for prioritising code improvements alongside feature work whenever the opportunity arises.
Solid understanding of the importance of catering to users with accessibility needs, and and familiarity with the approaches and tooling required to ensure accessibility guidelines and best practices are adhered to.
Proactive in taking ownership over your work and collaborating with product, ensuring progress by proactively communicating blockers, seeking feedback, and driving tasks to completion.
Comfortable working with product owners to break down business requirements into deliverable tasks and estimate the complexity of their implementation.
Desirable:
Experience working at a Fintech or startup/scaleup environment
Experience working on financial systems
A keen desire to want to learn and input into a highly collaborative team
What would make you stand out
You have experience working on multi-product web applications in a monorepo environment (we use Turborepo).
You have worked with modern React functionality such as Server Components, and the NextJS app folder, and have a good understanding of how you would approach a migration toward this new architecture.
You’ve worked with OpenAPI/Swagger specifications to help define API requirements and contracts, collaborating with backend developers to agree on best approaches when scoping work that requires new and updated schemas.
You have demonstrable experience with web 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 design decisions with product managers and designers, and are happy to get involved in putting forward ideas when required
Our tech stack
Web
Typescript, React, NextJS, Redux Toolkit, SCSS Modules, React Testing Library, Cypress/Playwright, Turborepo
Mobile
Typescript, React Native, Expo, GraphQL, Relay, Jest, React Testing Library
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
