Senior Frontend Engineer

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 500 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’re looking for a Senior Frontend Software Engineer, 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, Unsecured Loans, tackling the toughest and most dynamic credit market in the world - the United States. 

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 is 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

Web

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

What we’re looking for

• You have a solid understanding of modern Javascript with Typescript.

• You have commercial experience with the latest versions of NextJS.

• You clearly understand the benefits of automated testing in software development, 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 whenever 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.

• You take ownership of your work, ensuring progress by proactively communicating blockers, seeking feedback, and driving tasks to completion. You actively engage in team ceremonies and collaborate to keep projects moving forward.

• You are comfortable working with product owners to break down business requirements into deliverable tasks and estimate the complexity of their implementation. You can quickly identify the difficult