Backend JVM Software Engineer, Lendable
Offers equity
3 days a week in office
Profitable Fintech Unicorn - Lending Platform
Job no longer available
Profitable Fintech Unicorn - Lending Platform
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
Offers equity
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make consumer finance amazing: faster, cheaper and friendlier.
Role
Who you are
- Some commercial Kotlin experience would be great, failing that Java experience with a willingness to learn Kotlin
- A willingness to occasionally read and perhaps write some PHP
- An ability to write simple, clean code
- Experience and understanding of databases; relational databases are a must, and NoSql would be nice too
- Be able to quickly understand complex, financial business domains
- Understand different software architectures rapidly
- Understand 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
- What kind of person you’ll need to be:
- Someone who can get along with others and build relationships
- Someone who wants to continually learn, improve and collaborate
- Someone adaptable and willing to learn new technologies
- 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
- 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
- Work in small teams of exceptional people, who are relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status quo
- Build the best technology in-house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting
- 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
- There’s a lot to do, from building and integrating new APIs to help build out our new collections function to creating new internal tools and supporting our expansion of new products and services in the US
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 consumers. 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
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2022
$277.2m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Sep 2017
$6.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $287m
Company benefits
- 💸 Best-in-class compensation, including equity
- 🏥 Comprehensive private health insurance (including dental, optometry and general wellbeing)
- 🎊 Multiple opportunities to socialise with your team and the wider company
- 💻 Equipment provided for you to do your best work!
- 🏠 You can work from home every Monday and Friday if you wish - on the other days we all come together IRL to be together, build and exchange ideas (hybrid)
- 🍲 Our in-house chefs prepare fresh, healthy lunches in the office every Tuesday-Thursday
- 🚗 EV car scheme (Octopus)
- 🚲 Cycle to work scheme
- 🧮 Pension
- 🌴 25 days of annual leave - excluding bank holidays
- 🏋️♀️ 50% off gym memberships at Virgin Active and Nuffield (via Vitality health insurance)
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
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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