Lead React Web Engineer
About Lendable
Lendable is on a mission to build the world's best technology to help people get credit and save money.We're building one of the world’s leading fintech companies and are off to a strong start:
One of the UK’s newest unicorns with a team of just over 700 people
Among the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK
Profitable since 2017
Backed by top investors including Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs
Loved by customers with the best reviews in the market (4.9 across 10,000s of reviews on Trustpilot)
So far, we’ve rebuilt the Big Three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards and car finance. We get money into our customers’ hands in minutes instead of days.
We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do: we’re going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions worth of financial products are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes.
Join us if you want to
Take ownership across a broad remit. You are trusted to make decisions that drive a material impact on the direction and success of Lendable from day 1
Work in small teams of exceptional people, who are relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status quo
Build the best technology in-house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting
About the role
We’re looking for a Staff React Engineer to join our SuperApp engineering group, focusing on the Zable website as a key way customers discover and use our products.
This is the team that owns and improves core customer journeys on the Zable website, from discovery and eligibility through to application and self service, working closely with product, design and backend engineers across multiple domains.
There’s a lot to do as we launch new products, bring Zable to new audiences and continually improve performance and reliability, and you will take ownership for delivering meaningful web features, guiding implementation choices and helping the team ship high quality experiences.
Our Tech Stack
PHP 8, Symfony 6&7, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes, React & React Native, TypeScript, MobX, Redux, Stylus and SASS, Jenkins (we deploy to production as soon as we finish a feature), Behat, PHPUnit, Jest, Selenium, Maestro and Detox.
What you’ll be doing/impact on objectives
Provide technical leadership for web work that touches the Zable website, setting the direction for how we design and build React and TypeScript front ends across SuperApp teams.
Work with product managers and designers to turn ideas and high level goals into clear, deliverable web projects, breaking them into stages that multiple engineers and teams can own.
Design and review front end architecture and patterns for the Zable website, helping the team choose sensible abstractions, manage complexity and keep the codebase healthy as it grows.
Guide the way we approach testing and quality for Zable web journeys by setting expectations for unit, integration and end to end tests, and by helping the team keep them stable and useful.
Lead efforts to improve performance, reliability and accessibility on the Zable website, using metrics and tools such as Sentry or Datadog to spot issues and working with others to address them.
Identify and communicate technical debt and platform risks, and work with engineering managers and product partners to balance new feature work with necessary code and architecture improvements.
Mentor and support other engineers through design discussions, code reviews and pairing, so that more people in the group can confidently own complex work.
Collaborate with other technical leads in SuperApp and related areas to align on shared standards and to coordinate cross team initiatives that improve the wider platform.
What we’re looking for
Deep experience building and scaling React applications in production, with strong knowledge of TypeScript and modern web engineering practices.
Experience working with product owners to break down business requirements into deliverable tasks, estimate complexity and plan work across a team.
Ability to look at a design or outline specification and quickly identify technical challenges, propose alternative approaches where useful, and explain trade offs clearly.
Passion for building high performing teams, including organising work streams with product partners, looking for ways to improve team flow, and encouraging individual accountability for delivery.
Experience mentoring and supporting other engineers, alongside engineering managers, to encourage their personal and professional growth and enable them to succeed.
Track record of leading on automated testing and quality, taking a pragmatic approach to improvements and setting the standard for testing practices in your team.
Comfortable identifying and assessing technical debt in web systems, and a clear voice for prioritising code and architecture improvements alongside feature work when the opportunity arises.
Awareness of accessibility needs for web users and familiarity with approaches and tools that help teams meet accessibility guidelines and best practices.
Nice to have, not required
Experience leading web teams that have built or worked on products which scaled to very large user bases, and applying those lessons in new contexts.
Experience with frameworks used for larger web applications, for example NextJS or similar stacks.
Experience in scaling React based platforms across multiple teams, with shared components, tooling and standards.
Interview process
A quick phone call with one of the team
A short coding exercise to complete in your own time
Onsite or Video Interview
Discuss the exercise you completed
Meet the team you’ll work with daily
Check out our blog
We also have an engineering blog where we have written in more detail about how we work in the engineering team.
Life at Lendable
The opportunity to scale up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies.
Best-in-class compensation, including equity.
You can work from home every Monday and Friday if you wish - on the other days, those based in the UK come together IRL at our Shoreditch office in London to be together, build and exchange ideas.
Enjoy a fully stocked kitchen with everything you need to whip up breakfast, lunch, snacks, and drinks in the office every Tuesday-Thursday.
We care for our Lendies’ well-being both physically and mentally, so we offer coverage when it comes to private health insurance
We're an equal-opportunity employer and are looking to make Lendable the most inclusive and open workspace in London
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