Staff React Native Engineer, Lendable

Salary not provided

+ Equity

TypeScript
React Native
JavaScript
GraphQL
iOS
Android
Wireframe
Senior and Expert level
London

More information about location

3 days a week in office

Lendable

Fintech Unicorn - Lending Platform

Open for applications

Lendable

Fintech Unicorn - Lending Platform

201-500 employees

FintechB2CMarketplacePersonal financeLendingCustomer service

Open for applications

Salary not provided

+ Equity

TypeScript
React Native
JavaScript
GraphQL
iOS
Android
Wireframe
Senior and Expert level
London

More information about location

3 days a week in office

201-500 employees

FintechB2CMarketplacePersonal financeLendingCustomer service

Company mission

To make consumer finance amazing: faster, cheaper and friendlier.

Role

Who you are

  • You have experience working with product owners to break down business requirements into deliverable tasks and estimate the complexity of their implementation
  • You can quickly identify the difficulties of implementing a feature from an initial design wireframe or outline spec and work together to propose alternative approaches where appropriate
  • You are passionate about building high-performing teams. You organise work streams in conjunction with the product owner, and look for optimisations that will improve team performance and happiness, while driving individual accountability for delivery
  • You have experience mentoring and supporting other engineers, alongside engineering managers, working to encourage their personal and professional growth, and enabling them to succeed
  • You have an expert understanding of modern Javascript with Typescript
  • You have experience leading cross-platform mobile development using React Native
  • You have a strong understanding of the different needs of mobile users across a variety of platforms and devices
  • You’re comfortable owning and managing the full spectrum of iOS & Android application requirements, such as provisioning, certificate management, automated deployment, and app store release processes
  • You set the standard for automated testing in your team, and take a pragmatic approach to implementing and improving the various phases of the testing pyramid
  • You can quickly identify and assess technical debt and are a vocal advocate for prioritising code improvements alongside feature work when the opportunity arises
  • You understand the importance of catering to users with accessibility needs, and are familiar with the approaches and tooling required to ensure accessibility guidelines and best practices are adhered to

Desirable

  • You’ve lead teams which have built, or worked on, products that have scaled from zero users to tens or hundreds of thousands (or more), and can apply what you learnt in new contexts
  • You’ve used GraphQL in a production environment
  • You’ve had experience in scaling React Native to multiple teams
  • You’ve built and launched new products and grown the audience
  • You have in-depth experience of mobile performance best practices and debugging
  • You’ve employed staged rollouts and multivariate testing approaches to release new features and test hypotheses
  • You have experience of UI or UX design. You feel at ease discussing approaches with product designers, and are happy to get involved in making design decisions where required

What the job involves

  • We’re looking for an experienced React Native Staff Engineer to support and lead our frontend engineers in a cross-functional team building new product experiences in our established Zable App, used by over 500,000 customers on iOS and Android
  • Over the next year we have big plans for our app. New products and bringing Zable to a new audience. We are scaling our dev team up to match our ambition and we’re looking for talented people to help us experiment and succeed in these new areas
  • Alongside feature work we also put a big focus on improving performance, reducing tech debt, and improving scalability
  • Our ideal engineer is detail focused and resourceful, and keen to understand the bigger picture outside of their product team, contributing to wider engineering and business initiatives that help us scale our UK and US based products as we continue to grow

Application process

  • A quick video call with a member of our talent team to learn more about you
  • A 30-minute video call with the hiring manager to discuss your experience and answer any initial technical questions you have about the role
  • A short React Native coding exercise to complete in your own time
  • A technical session with your peers where you’ll discuss your solution to the exercise, talk through some problems and scenarios, and dig deeper into your technical experience
  • An interview with an Engineering Manager to explore your motivations and goals, assess how you could play a part in your team’s success, and better understand how we could help you thrive in your role

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Insights

Top investors

40% female employees

72% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Onsite Yoga
  • Lunch cooked by onsite chefs 3 times a week
  • 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
  • Work from home opportunities on Monday and Friday
  • Private Health Insurance (inclusive of dental and pre-existing conditions)
  • Share Options for all Employees
  • Regular team and company wide socials
  • Pension

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Mar 2022

$276.4m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Sep 2017

$6.5m

SERIES A

Total funding: $286.2m

Our take

Lendable competes with banks, other lenders, and consumer finance companies to provide loans, credit cards and car financing to consumers. Streamlining the loan application process, the company cuts personalised rates and fund transfers from days to minutes.

Lendable believes it can win in this crowded field due to its market-best customer service and strong financials. Part of its success is due to its funding coming from institutional investors. Lendable originates and services its loans on behalf of institutional investors, but doesn't hold them on its own balance sheet.

Growing insolvencies will worry all lending platforms, but Lendable looks well-placed to weather any credit storm given its substantial debt financing. In 2023, it launched two new products in the US, signifying its growth.

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