Engineering Lead, Tembo
£80-90k
Alternative to guarantor mortgages
Open for applications
Alternative to guarantor mortgages
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£80-90k
21-100 employees
Company mission
Tembo is on a mission to make homeownership happen for a new generation of buyers through smart family lending.
Role
Who you are
- You’ve done lots if not all of these things before
- You care about the code you write
- You’re happy owning tickets all the way through to production
- You’re focused on delivering value to users
- You know the right way to do things, while still being pragmatic
- You enjoy architecting systems - its down to us to lay the foundation we’ll build on for years to come
- You’re happy operating in the problem space, not just knocking down tickets
- 5+ years of Ruby on Rails experience
Desirable
- AWS experience a plus
What the job involves
- You’ll be a pivotal part of the team with a valued opinion on everything delivering software products entails from process, architecture, all the way through to tooling. We have recently closed our seed round from some top tier investors and are now fully focused on realising our vision and delivering our product roadmap to users
- Developing features & functionality as we move beyond MVP
- Championing best practices across the codebase
- Identifying & resolving performance issues and bugs
- Pivotal in the technical design & architecture of the platform
- Helping shape development processes as we scale the team
- Helping build an open, collaborative team culture
- Coaching and supporting new (sometimes junior) developers
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Tembo is helping a new generation of home-owners get on the property ladder faster and for less. Tembo's deposit boost works by allowing older homeowners, such as parents or grandparents, help their loved ones to buy a property by securing a small mortgage against their own property.
The model has similarities to equity release schemes. However, Tembo is different as it will recommend interest-only mortgages to the benefactor, not schemes with no monthly repayments where interest can quickly mount up. The added bonus of Tembo's deposit boost is that it saves buyers tens of thousands of pounds by unlocking market-leading rates. On average, Tembo users could save £14,000 in interest charges over the initial term.
Tembo is part of PRIMIS Mortgage Network, a network of brokers which is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. This not only means it will offer mortgages from a panel of lenders rather than the whole market, but also that it may have access to deals that aren't available elsewhere. The company is part of the start-up business accelerator, Founders Factory, which in turn is backed by Aviva.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Apr 2023
$6.4m
EARLY VC
Aug 2021
$3.2m
SEED
Total funding: $9.6m
Company benefits
- Fun London office - think cake Wednesday’s, Friday drinks, and of course dog friendly
- Hybrid working - we know that flexibility is important so we ask our employees to work from the office at least twice per month
- Progression and development opportunities - we’re scaling quick and are looking for the right people to join us on that growth journey
- Socials and away days - did someone say Junkyard Golf?!
Company values
- 👪 It’s all about people
- 🔍 Find a way
- ✂️ If you don’t like it, change it
Company HQ
Kensington, London, UK
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Leadership
Richard Dana
(CEO)Former CFO of Founders Factory and co-founder of budget boutique hotel Doris&Dickey (which sold to Chic Retreats).
Geoff Wright
(CTO)Previously a contractor at SilkFred, Babylon Health, StorIQ and BitPesa.
Eddie Ross
(CPO)Co-founder of Circl. Gaming and background in product management at Mojo Mortgages and Quint Group.
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