Contract Web Engineer, Cleo AI
6 Months
AI personal finance assistant
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AI personal finance assistant
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To change the world’s relationship with money.
Role
Who you are
- For this frontend focused role, we also have some specific asks:
- As this is an SE4 position, we’re looking for someone with strong industry experience of using React with TypeScript for a minimum of 5+ years. If it’s a less than that, maybe you want to look at our Product Engineer role
- Senior-level experience in web development - solid track record rebuilding or transforming websites with custom code
- Expert in front-end technologies, including (but not limited to) HTML5, CSS3 (animations and transitions), JavaScript (modern frameworks or vanilla)
- Figma master - you can interpret complex designs and turn them into fluid, working pages
- Independent, proactive mindset - you can take a concept and run with it; no micromanagement needed
- Comfortable with urgency - you understand deadlines, act with immediacy, and deliver without sacrificing quality
- Creative coder - you relish building playful, experimental, sci-fi‑themed interactions that stand out
Desirable
- Experience with canvas, WebGL, or three.js for 3D or immersive effects
- Prior work featuring motion design, scroll-triggered animations, or interactive storytelling
- Familiarity with performance optimization for dynamic media-rich pages
What the job involves
- We’re on the hunt for a radically hands‑on Senior Web Developer - someone who doesn’t wait for permission, doesn’t need hand‑holding, and thrives pushing boundaries
- Your mission: rebuild websites that are immersive, playful, and unapologetically futuristic
- Think: add video, make text crawl around the video, imaginative interactions, all‑custom pages, immersive sci‑fi flair. No templates. No safe zones
- Rebuild and reimagine websites from the ground up - every page is custom-coded, unique, experimental
- Add multimedia experiences, like embedding video backgrounds and animating text that reacts to scroll or hover
- Build interactions that feel alive - interactive “immersive sci‑fi” components that spark curiosity
- Own your work - you understand urgency, deliver without prodding, and ship polished results fast
- Translate Figma designs into fully functioning experiences - pixel-perfect, responsive, and dynamic
- Iterate swiftly based on feedback - you're comfortable shipping often and refining as you go
- Our Tech Stack:
- NextJS website
- Hosted / deployed with Vercel
- DatoCMS
- Appsflyer for attribution data
- More on our stack:
- Built as a Ruby on Rails monolith with a React Native frontend using TypeScript
- We leverage Python for machine learning services and PostgreSQL as our database
- All infrastructure is hosted on AWS
- Our CI/CD pipeline is fully automated, with production deployments on every merge via Heroku
- While we take a pragmatic approach, we place a strong emphasis on quality. Our code is peer-reviewed, and we maintain automated testing using Minitest and CircleCI. We're also actively working towards a more modular architecture, focusing on separating concerns to achieve all the benefits of microservices within a monolith, while progressively refactoring our code as we build new features. Everyone in the engineering team contributes to driving our technical strategy, voices & ideas from all levels are valued: we are all owners at Cleo
Application process
- This is a 3-stage interview process:
- Interview with the Recruiter (30 mins)
- Interview with the Team (30 mins)
- Technical interview (60 mins)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
People are increasingly not satisfied with the products being offered by traditional banks, which have proven slow to react to the needs of younger consumers who expect more from their everyday experiences.
Cleo was one of the first companies to make great use of chatbots that sit within Facebook's messenger app. This chatbot-first approach and Gen Z user base have given it strong virality. It now has millions of registered users, 99% of which are based in the US, leading to a decision to take a year break from the UK market to focus on its US Gen Z customers. And after a successful year in the US its now eyeing up a return to the UK.
Its Series C funding will help the company to double down in the US, where it will make a significant increase in employee headcount, and enable Cleo to maintain and expand its service during an economic downturn.
Financial advice delivered via bots is a crowded space, so Cleo benefits from having a strong brand presence. It has gone for very bold, fun, Gen Z-focused messaging which helps it to stand out from competitors such as Emma, Plum, and Chip.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2022
$80m
SERIES C
Dec 2020
$44m
SERIES B
Total funding: $137.5m
Company benefits
- Meaningful equity with early exercise, plus top-ups on promotion
- Up to 26 weeks’ parental leave
- Paid 1-month sabbatical every 4 years
- Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
- Pension/401K match up to 6%
- Learning & development budget
- Mental health support via Spill
- Flexible working for a healthy work–life balance
- Work remotely from one of our hiring locations, with a hybrid option in our London office (1+ day/week)
- Annual company off-sites
- Company-wide performance reviews every 6 months
- Clear progression plans with opportunities to lead, grow, and challenge the status quo
- We’ll cover your OpenAI subscription
Company values
- Make it Happen - Own the outcome. Lend a hand, take a hand. Fast execution.
- No bullsh*t - Intellectually honest. Go hard on problems, not people. Data-backed decision making.
- Learn at Speed - Jump in and figure it out. Dig deep, do it right. Learn what matters.
- Bring Good Vibes - Read the room, lift the room. Show up for others. Keep it real, keep it positive.
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Barnaby Hussey-Yeo
(Founder & CEO)Previously a Data Scientist at Wonga, one of the companies that pioneered the smart use of data for loan decisions. Joined Entrepreneur First where Cleo was formed.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Cleo AI
- We’ve set up an internal committee of truly passionate people that are dedicated to ensuring Diversity and Inclusion is embedded in how we all operate as a team. We agree on meaningful actions, and get on with implementing them. We have three main focuses right now, which are:
- 1) Improving SocioEconomic diversity across the company
- 2) Increasing the number of women in Leadership roles
- 3) More community outreach
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