Frontend Engineer, ClearScore
Surfaces
2-5 days a week in office
Financial wellbeing marketplace
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Financial wellbeing marketplace
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
2-5 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
ClearScore's vision is to help everyone, no matter what their circumstances, achieve greater financial wellbeing. They've started this journey by giving everybody access to their credit score and report for free, forever.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience building scalable full-stack solutions in Node.js, TypeScript, and React
- Strong foundation in SQL, PostgreSQL, and query optimisation
- Familiarity with server driven UI patterns and the use of design systems
- Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and tools like Jenkins, CircleCI, Docker, and AWS
- Understanding of performance optimisation techniques for web applications
- Skilled in unit and functional testing with tools like Jest and React Testing Library
- Familiarity with deploying global infrastructure and managing multiple environments
- Experience with Contentful or similar CMS tools is a plus
- A collaborative mindset with a passion for mentoring and supporting team members
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly
- Experience working in Agile Scrum environments
- Proactive in proposing new technologies, processes and standards to elevate our technical practices
What the job involves
- We are looking for a talented Frontend Engineer to come and join our close-knit cross-functional agile delivery team working on the Credit Health and Home Surfaces of the Clearscore product
- Your work will empower consumers worldwide, across all 5 markets where ClearScore currently operates, and will focus on helping users to understand their credit position - how lenders see them & their borrowing potential
- We do this by presenting data from their Credit Bureau reports and Open Banking connections in easy-to-understand experiences, empowering and educating them to take effective control of their finances
- You will build these experiences using components from Slate, our design system, put together as pages using a Server-Driven UI system
- You will implement business logic server-side, building pages once in our Node backend and seeing them delivered across the website and Android and iOS native apps
- This architecture is underpinned by an event-driven Kafka backend delivering the data you need to materialise to power the new experience you are delivering
- This team is part of the Surfaces mission at Clearscore, working alongside teams delivering other parts of the same product such as Protect and the Financial Products Marketplace
- Design, build, and maintain full-stack solutions using Node.js and TypeScript, delivering data-driven user interfaces and backend services
- Build intuitive client UX utilising design systems and server-driven UI frameworks
- Optimise and scale databases for large-scale applications, leveraging SQL, PostgreSQL, and indexing strategies to ensure performance and maintainability
- Work closely with expert colleagues to implement, monitor, and optimise real-time data pipelines with Kafka, ensuring robust message handling and distributed system performance
- Take ownership of end-to-end performance optimisation, both client- and server-side
- Lead the deployment and maintenance of production-grade code and databases across multiple global markets
- Monitor post-release performance, leveraging tools for reliability and system health
- Collaborate in an Agile environment, mentoring junior team members and those of other specialisms and fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement
- Contribute to the growth of our technology by driving improvements in standards, tools, and processes
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The number of loan options for consumers has exploded in recent years, making credit assessment super important for companies offering these loans and giving Clearscore a big market to grow into
Traditionally, lenders had a more 'computer says no' approach when it came to making loan decisions. With the wealth of data now available on people, credit assessment can be made smarter
Clearscore's approach has been to add on innovative products outside of credit scoring, e.g. helping consumers understand how to improve their financial position and offering car and home insurance
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
36% female employees
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"We have a really clear mission and with that, it means everything you work on is to improve for our users and make the world of personal finance..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2024
$4.4m
GRANT
Jun 2021
$200m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $220m
Company benefits
- Additional day off on your birthday
- Flexible, generous and personalised maternity and paternity plans
- Company personal trainer, boxing and yoga classes
- Very flexible work hours and the ability to work from home
- In house psychotherapist, coach and financial coach
- Dog friendly office
- Pay transparency for every level across the business
- Hatch - Financial Planning support
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- We deliver
- We lead
- We fight
- We are disciplined
- We are proud
- We obsess
- We fail and fix fast
- We are focused
Company HQ
Vauxhall, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Justin
(CEO)CMO at Zapp, Vice President of Marketing at Capital One and Global Head of Marketing at Deutsche Bank. Founded ALLOW in 2010, helping people get in control of their personal information.
Dan
(Director)Currently Managing Partner at Blenheim Chalcot, the venture builder where ClearScore was started
Nigel
(Chairman)Currently Managing Partner of QED Investors. Co-founder of Capital One
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at ClearScore
- Active Employee Representative Group discussing D&I initiatives with every team
- Mental Health support and Mental Health days available
- Mandatory Unconscious Bias training for every interviewer
- Clear goals to decrease Pay Gap communicated openly in company meetings
- Regularly check-in via anonymous feedback to ensure high Diversity & Inclusion scores in our employee experience
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