Backend Software Engineer, Gen H
Mid-level
£60-85k
1-5 days a week in office (Old Street, London)
Innovative mortgage lender
Be an early applicant
Innovative mortgage lender
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
£60-85k
1-5 days a week in office (Old Street, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To rebuild the homebuying process to make it simple, transparent and fair.
Role
Who you are
- Being willing to learn new things on the go
- 2+ years of experience building software
- Familiarity with Ruby, Python, or a similar modern programming language
- Experience with Postgres or another relational database
- Some experience with informal domain modelling to help turn ideas into working systems
- Right to work in the UK
Desirable
- Familiarity with Airflow, GCP, or Kubernetes is a plus
- React, and Typescript are nice to have, but not essential
What the job involves
- Working at Gen H means embracing new challenges – we’re building a mortgage lender from the ground up
- You’ll collaborate across the business to design new features and products, solve real problems, and deliver great outcomes for our customers and partners
- We partner with multiple financial institutions to provide capital for the mortgages we offer
- Our engineering team is responsible for continually enhancing our multi-funder platform. That includes building internal tools that empower our finance and operations teams to manage cases across funders, and developing scalable data pipelines that offer our partners high level of visibility
- As a software engineer, you’ll own the features you build from start to finish, and proactively improve them as the business evolves
- We’re looking for engineers who enjoy solving complex problems with simple solutions—and who thrive in a fast-moving, collaborative environment
Application process
- Screening call with one of our Engineering Managers
- Competency call with a couple of your fellow engineers
- Values call with some of your other Gen H colleagues
- Founder call with our CEO
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Dubbed 'generation rent', young people are becoming increasingly likely to never own their own home. With high rent prices inhibiting saving for a deposit along with ever inflated house prices caused by limited affordable housing, the rate of home ownership has slumped over the past 20 years.
Gen H aim to be a new type of lender, providing a fully digital mortgage and features including online consultations with mortgage experts. They also provide a platform for home owners to track and manage their housing wealth.
Gen H can also incorporate "investors" into your mortgage. these can be friends or family who can help you out financially, providing a system for you to pay them back with interest on their investment. There is no shortage of potential users for the platform, and so the company has the real chance to expand its operations moving forwards.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2021
$30m
SERIES A
Jul 2020
$8.6m
SEED
Total funding: $47.1m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical insurance plan to protect and support your health and wellbeing
- Office-led, hybrid-friendly company
- Employee home buying - We’re thrilled to be able to support employes with mortgage products and discounted legal services through Gen H Legal. Normal eligibility rules apply
- Pick n' Mix Holidays 38 days (including Bank Holidays)
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Dog-friendly office
- Access to the Cycle to Work scheme
Company values
- Customer obsession - Customer success is the responsibility of every team, whatever the role. Everything we do is focused on the customer
- Urgency - We drive our team to be impatient, to challenge timelines, and to compress time cycles
- Honesty - We expect our employees to speak respectfully but frankly with one another at all times
- Ownership - We aim to embrace challenges and own the outcomes
- Humility - We listen to understand, not to respond. By respecting colleagues and our customers, we can align our individual success with the company’s success
- Ambition - We don’t allow the past and present to constrain our vision for the future. We aim to fail fast and to learn quickly
Company HQ
Old Street, London, UK
Leadership
William Rice
(Founder & CEO)Will is a History and Languages graduate of Cambridge University. They worked in Portfolio Management for Neptune Investment Management before founding Gen H.
Ashley Currie
(COO)They initially joined Gen H as a Senior Product Manager in 2020, before becoming a Product Lead, then Head of Product, before becoming COO in 2025. Prior to Gen H, they were a Product Transformation Associate Director at OakNorth. They also spent over 5 years at Lloyds Banking group, in a number of roles, including Product Propositions Associate Director.
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