React / Node.JS Engineer, kennek
Core-team Platform Team
£55-80k
2-5 days a week in office (Victoria, London)
Complete operating system for lenders
Job no longer available
Complete operating system for lenders
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£55-80k
2-5 days a week in office (Victoria, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help every lender operate and scale efficiently.
Role
Who you are
- Experience with related development languages and frameworks including React, Nodejs, Typescript etc
- You've integrated third-party APIs or SDKs
- Strong experience in serverless, scalable, resilient microservices and associated architecture
- Experience in CI/CD and code versioning tools such as Git, SVC
- You know how ORMs work and have experience with (No)SQL databases (such as Postgres or MongoDB)
Desirable
- You prefer TDD (or at least know the value of tests)
- You're already familiar with NextJS & NestJS
- You're experienced in AWS services such as Cognito, SES, SNS etc
- You have experience in financial, insurance or regulated industries
What the job involves
- Getting stuck in to engineer to bring an larger and improved feature set to the kennek platform
- Enriching the platform with new, well-documented (and tested) functionality
- Helping integrate our external vendors and clients through APIs
- Working in one of the scrum teams
- Contributing to code reviews, ensuring the codebase is maintainable and scalable
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Following the global financial crisis, traditional banks permanently retreated from lending to many businesses, particularly to small & medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Many non-bank lenders such as credit funds and P2P lenders have filled this financing gap. However, most of these lenders still use manual tools such as Microsoft Office, and borrowers send a jumble of documents in different formats. Data is not connected or centralised. Workflows are manual, offline & usually very time-consuming.
The result? These lenders are unable to scale – issuing more loans requires an army of expensive administrative staff, or massive investment in the development of their own tech stack, both of which are very expensive. Lenders are also unable to access the institutional funding they use to make the loans because these institutional funds require top-tier systems and a clear audit trail for data. Not only is this an issue for the lenders, but it poses a big problem for the economy as a whole.
This is where kennek comes in. They’ve created a vertically integrated SaaS that helps lenders to streamline and simplify their middle- and back-office operations, bringing together all the lending journey onto a single easy-to-use platform. With a growing demand for lending and credit investor SaaS platforms, the company are well set to success in this space.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Aug 2023
$12.5m
Seed
Oct 2022
$3.3m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $17.2m
Company benefits
- 🌍 Genuine flexibility in how and where you work
- 🏝️ 25 days' holiday (with bank holidays on top)
- 🏕️ Annual team off-sites
- 🧍♂️ No dress code at all
- 🏢 Modern and centrally located office in London
- 💝 We’re still deciding our full benefits package and we’re looking forward to working with our early employees to figure out what matters the most
- 🏥 Private health insurance with AXA, including dental & optical cover
- 🏎️ Salary sacrifice scheme for electric vehicles
- 💸 Immediate enrolment to our pension plan upon joining
Company HQ
Victoria, London, UK
Leadership
Thibault Lancksweert
(Co-CEO)Previously MD at Aeon Investments, CFO & COO at SME Capital, Vice President at Barclays Investment Bank, Associate at Credit Suisse.
Xavier De Pauw
(Co-CEO)Previously Co-Founder & CEO of MeDirect Bank, Director at Merill Lynch. Current Board Member at Wise EU and Fundcraft and advisor to Blanco Fintech, Ziggma and Edmond de Rotschild Belgium.
Edmund Parsons
(CPO)Previously consultant at Aeon Investments, Director of Product & Operations at SME Capital, Strategy Consultant at Eden McCallum.
Crispin Proctor
(CTO)Previously Head of IT Operations and Engineering at Vive Bank, Data Architecture at Hampshire Trust Bank, Applications and Software Development Manager at Harrods.
Hervé Lagache
(Chief Growth Officer)Previously founder & CEO of Jobtic.fr, leading job media for Rossel and consultant at Roland Berger
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