Senior Frontend Engineer, Octopus Money
£75-85k
+ Bonus & Group share incentive plan
More information about location
3 days a week in office (Holborn, London)
Making advice and investing accessible for all
Be an early applicant
Making advice and investing accessible for all
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
£75-85k
+ Bonus & Group share incentive plan
More information about location
3 days a week in office (Holborn, London)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help millions of people take the first steps towards making their life dreams a reality.
Role
Who you are
- This is an ideal opportunity for a passionate technologist who wants to further their career and make a positive impact
- You care about how you make people feel. You communicate clearly, listen well and build trust with customers and colleagues. You want every interaction to move things forward
- You like getting stuck in. You care about making progress, not perfection. You stay focused on what matters, learn quickly and find smart ways to keep things moving
- You take responsibility for your work and the outcomes it creates. You’re comfortable solving problems, making decisions and tackling challenges head on. You hold yourself to a high standard and want to make a real impact
- Senior experience as a software engineer working on production systems in a commercial environment
- Strong TypeScript skills
- Extensive React experience
- Experience working in a Scrum/Agile team
- Experience with RESTful services
Desirable
- NodeJs
- Design libraries such as Storybook and MUI
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Front End Engineer to help us build the products needed to transform millions of lives
- Our development teams are split into three pillars: focusing on our planning tool, investment toolings, and back-office tooling. Each pillar contains two product squads
- As a Senior Front End Engineer, responsibilities would include owning delivery of features; ensuring code quality and best practices are met; and mentoring and pairing with junior and mid-level engineers
- Our frontend stack is built on React with Typescript, using MUI as a base for our design system. The backend team provides our API endpoints, written in Go
- We are looking for pragmatists who can work with the existing platform and front end teams, collaborating closely with tech leads, design, backend engineers and product managers
- As the company scales, there will be opportunities in technical architecture and strategy. The role has the potential to evolve into a Tech Lead for the right candidate as the team grows
- Writing, testing and deploying great software
- Collaborating with the tech leads and other Senior Engineers on deciding future technologies and processes
- Working with modern and new technologies and frameworks
- Working in an Agile team
- Comfortable working on large features and breaking them down into smaller technical tasks
- Building relationships with product and design and collaborating with backend engineers
- Conducting code reviews and pairing with junior colleagues
- In this role, success will be measured by:
- Consistent high quality contributions to our code base
- Positive communication with peers and stakeholders
Application process
- Our interview process typically includes:
- An intro call with our talent team
- A 90min technical interview with the team
- A 30min interview with our CTO
- We’ll keep it simple and respectful of your time, and you’ll meet the people you’ll actually work with. Our average process takes around four weeks but we’ll always work around your availability
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Octopus Money believes that offering financial coaching to employees is the most effective way to improve their financial well-being. The company is a financial coaching start-up that aims to make useful financial advice accessible to everybody. According to the company, the employees who use its service - numbering at over 250,000 - save, on average, around £9700 per year.
The company differentiates itself through its business model - the service is free, and the company adopts upselling techniques. Octopus Money can easily be implemented by employers within their organisations, giving each employee their own expert financial coach for free. According to the company, most employees will then choose to upgrade their plans and become paying customers.
The business was formerly called Hatch and has been acquired by the Octopus Group. It also powers financial services firms aligned with its values to complement its financial coaching products, covering more bases to draw in a wider customer reach. Octopus Money already counts SecretEscapes, Epson, and Octopus Energy among its growing client base.
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Company benefits
- 18 day “work from anywhere” allowance every year (you can choose to work from home or anywhere, including other countries)
- 6% company pension
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption or shared parental leave, if you’ve been with us for at least 15 months: 6 months fully paid leave for primary carers, 2 months fully paid leave for secondary carers
- Private health insurance through Aviva
- Employee Assistance Programme offering a 24/7 confidential advice line for you and your immediate family members
- Discretionary up to 10% bonus at the end of each financial year, based on the performance of the company
- Access to the Octopus Group Share Incentive Plan
- Paid therapy via Spill
Company values
- Make Every Conversation Matter - We care deeply about how we make customers and colleagues feel – on every call, email, screen and event. It won’t always be perfect, but we’ll always work harder to keep making it better.
- Move with Urgency and Focus - We’re impatient to make remarkable things. We focus on what matters most, make fast initial progress and then iterate forward.
- Own It - We take full ownership of our work – from the smallest detail to the final outcome. We have the courage to break new ground, to hold ourselves and each other accountable, to tackle challenges head-on and find solutions that make a lasting impact.
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
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Leadership
Ruth Handcock
(CEO)Founding member of Tandem Bank, former CEO of Octopus Investment and chairperson for Octopus Legacy, Seccl, amicable.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Octopus Money
- We believe in equal financial education for everybody, no matter their background. We pride ourselves on building an inclusive working environment where diversity is celebrated. We do not and never will discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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