About Lendable
The full job description covers all associated skills, previous experience, and any qualifications that applicants are expected to have.Lendable is on a mission to make consumer finance amazing:
faster, cheaper and friendlier.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 400 peopleAmong the
fastest-growing
tech companies in the UKProfitable
since 2017Backed by top investors including
Balderton Capital
and
Goldman SachsLoved
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 toTake 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 1Work in
small teams of exceptional people , who are relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status quoBuild the
best technology in-house , using new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy liftingAbout the roleAs we continue to build upon the diversity of our team we are thrilled to have the opportunity to bring on board a Kotlin engineer to a newly forming pod. This is an opportunity to bring new experience, perspective and capabilities to our design discussions, helping shape our approach to delivering elegant solutions to complex engineering challenges as we continue to grow. This is the team that put the Tech in FinTech, our current tech team is around 80 strong and have helped transform finance by building a next-generation lending platform, a next-gen credit card, and auto-finance product, and they’re at it again with brand new product launches this year.We're looking for an engineer with a depth of knowledge and recent hands-on Kotlin experience that enables them to not only deliver elegant, idiomatic solutions in Kotlin but also to contribute new knowledge and experience to our frequent collaborative design forums with stakeholders from every area of the business.There’s a lot to do, from building and integrating new APIs to help build out our new collections function to creating new internal tools and supporting our expansion of new products and supporting services in the US.We believe that software engineering is more than just code - it’s about people. We believe that the best teams are made of great people. That fundamentally great software engineering is about alignment, sharing what we know and being nice to each other. When we put all this together we make software engineering better by continually improving our capabilities as a team and making our working environment a happy and productive place.Tech stackBackend : Kotlin 1.7.20, AWS, GraphQL (it would be nice if you were familiar with this but it’s not a deal breaker), Postgres, RabbitMQ, Docker, KubernetesFrontend/Mobile : React & React Native, TypeScript, MobX, Redux, Stylus and SASSOther : We build our Kotlin projects using Gradle and GitHub Actions, deploying to production as soon as we finish a feature. We use JUnit Jupiter, Kotest and TestContainers for automated testing.What we're looking forStrong commercial Kotlin experienceAn ability to write simple, clean codeExperience and understanding of databases; relational databases are a must, NoSQL would be nice tooBe able to quickly understand complex, financial business domainsUnderstand different software architectures rapidlyUnderstands abstraction and interpolationAble to write comprehensive, automated tests at all levels of the pyramidUnderstanding of the Kanban agile methodology; not a deal breaker if you don’tSomeone who can get along with others and build relationshipsSomeone who wants to continually learn, improve and collaborateSomeone who can solve problems on their own but also knows when to go to their peers for helpSomeone who is a rational thinker and is aware of the ‘why’ behind the way they do thingsSomeone who is a pragmatist who can sensibly weigh the tradeoffs between code quality and deliveryInterview processA
30 minute introductory call
with the talent teamA
short coding exercise
to complete in your own timeOnsite or Video technical Interview
lasting 60-90 minutes, comprising of:
Introduction of the team and kind of work you could be doing dailyDiscussion around the coding exercise you completedInteractive architecture/design exerciseTech project walkthrough
Onsite or video cultural/behavioural interviewQuestions you may have about the company, role, etc.Life at Lendable (check out our Glassdoor page)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 we all come together IRL to be together, build and exchange ideas.Our in-house chef
prepares fresh, healthy lunches 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.Check out our blog!
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