Lead Kotlin Engineer, Lendable
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3 days a week in office (Shoreditch, London)
Fintech Unicorn - Lending Platform
Posted today
Fintech Unicorn - Lending Platform
201-500 employees
Posted today
+ Equity
3 days a week in office (Shoreditch, London)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make consumer finance amazing: faster, cheaper and friendlier.
Role
Who you are
- We're looking for an engineer with a depth of knowledge and recent hands-on Kotlin experience that enables them to not only deliver elegant, idiomatic solutions in Kotlin but also to contribute new knowledge and experience to our frequent collaborative design forums with stakeholders from every area of the business
- Strong commercial Kotlin experience
- Strong mentorship and coaching experience
- An ability to write simple, clean code
- Experience and understanding of databases; relational databases are a must, NoSql would be nice too
- Be able to quickly understand complex, financial business domains
- Understand different software architectures rapidly
- Understands abstraction and interpolation
- Able to write comprehensive, automated tests at all levels of the pyramid
- Understanding of the Kanban agile methodology; not a deal breaker if you don’t
- Someone who can get along with others and build relationships
- Someone who wants to continually learn, improve and collaborate
- Someone who can solve problems on their own but also knows when to go to their peers for help
- Someone who is a rational thinker and is aware of the ‘why’ behind the way they do things
- Someone who is a pragmatist who can sensibly weigh the tradeoffs between code quality and delivery
What the job involves
- As we continue to build upon the diversity of our team we are thrilled to have the opportunity to bring on board a Lead Kotlin Engineer
- This is an opportunity to bring new experience, perspective and capabilities to our design discussions, helping shape our approach to delivering elegant solutions to complex engineering challenges as we continue to grow
- This is the team that put the Tech in FinTech, our current tech team is around 80 strong and have helped transform finance by building a next-generation lending platform, a next-gen credit card, and auto-finance product, a superapp and they’re at it again with brand new product launches this year
- There’s a lot to do; building and integrating new API’s, tuning our existing services as they scale, supporting our expansion of new products and supporting services in the US
- We believe that software engineering is more than just code - it’s about people
- We believe that the best teams are made of great people
- That fundamentally great software engineering is about alignment, sharing what we know and being nice to each other
- When we put all this together we make software engineering better by continually improving our capabilities as a team and making our working environment a happy and productive place
- We build our Kotlin projects using Gradle and GitHub Actions, deploying to production as soon as we finish a feature
- We use JUnit Jupiter, Kotest and TestContainers for automated testing
Application process
- A 30 minute introductory call with one of our engineers
- A short coding exercise to complete in your own time
- Onsite or Video Interview lasting 60-90 minutes, comprising of:
- Introduction of the team and kind of work you could be doing daily
- Discussion around the coding exercise you completed
- Interactive architecture/design exercise
- Tech project walkthrough
- Cultural/behavioural questions to see if you’d be a good fit for Lendable
- Questions you may have about the company, role, etc
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Lendable competes with banks, other lenders, and consumer finance companies to make finance and credit easier to access for all consumers. Streamlining the loan application process, the company cuts personalised rates and fund transfers from days to minutes.
Lendable believes it can win in this crowded field due to its market-best customer service and strong financials. Part of its success is due to its funding coming from institutional investors. Lendable originates and services its loans on behalf of institutional investors, but doesn't hold them on its own balance sheet.
Growing insolvencies will worry all lending platforms, but Lendable looks well-placed to weather any credit storm given its substantial debt financing. With fresh funding, this profitable fintech unicorn is poised to make credit access easier for micro, small, and medium enterprises. And with the launch of two new products in the US, Lendable is certainly in a good position for more growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Challenging work
"At Lendable I'm in a position to make decisions and engineer solutions on a product that's worth billions and growing all of the time. This brings..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2022
$280.8m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Sep 2017
$6.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $290.6m
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Martin Kissinger
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Economics as an undergraduate at LSE before doing an MPhil at Oxford University. Worked as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Rocket in Berlin.
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