Senior React Native 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 React Native Engineer to join our cross-functional team and build new product experiences in our established Zable App, used by over 1 million customers on iOS and Android. Over the next year, we have big plans for our app, including new products and bringing Zable to a new audience.

We are scaling our dev team to match our ambition, and we’re looking for talented people to help us experiment and succeed in these new areas. In addition to feature work, we also focus heavily on improving performance, reducing tech debt, and improving scalability.

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

Tech stack

Mobile Apps

• Typescript, React Native, GraphQL, Jest, React Testing Library, Maestro, MobX

Web

• Typescript, React, NextJS, SCSS, Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, Redux

Backend

• Kotlin, PHP 7/8 (Symfony), AWS, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes

Tooling

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

• Github Actions

• Bugsnag, Datadog & Sentry for debugging and reporting

• Figma & Storybook, for our design process

What we're looking for

• You have a solid understanding of modern Javascript with Typescript

• You have commercial experience with cross-platform mobile development using React Native

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

• You are an advocate for automated testing, 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 keen to make the case for remedying it 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 have a product mindset. 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 are comfortable putting forward alternative approaches where appropriate

• You have experience supporting other engineers, playing a role in their personal and professional growth, and enabling them to succeed.

What would make you stand out

• You’ve used GraphQL in a production environment

• You’ve had experience in scaling React Native to multiple teams

• 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

• You’ve 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

Interview process

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

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

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

• Final Onsite or Video interviews;

• 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

• A culture 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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