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About Lendable

Lendable is on a mission to make consumer finance amazing:faster, cheaper and friendlier.

We're building one of theworld’s leading fintechcompanies and are off to a strong start:

One of theUK’s newest unicornswith a team of just over 400 people

Among thefastest-growingtech companies in the UK

Profitablesince 2017

Backed by top investors includingBalderton CapitalandGoldman Sachs

Lovedby customers with the best reviews in the market (4.9 across 10,000s of reviews on Trustpilot)

So far, we’ve rebuilt theBig Threeconsumer 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 insmall teams of exceptional people, who are relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status quo

Build thebest 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 PHP engineer to join our engineering team. This is the team that put the Tech in FinTech, our current tech team is around 120 strong and has helped transform finance by building a next-generation lending platform, and a next-gen credit card and they’re at it again with another brand new product launching this year.

There’s a lot to do, from building and integrating new APIs to further improve the customer journey and optimising the lending platform to deep architectural discussions and development of brand-new product platforms.

What we are looking for

  • Strong, modern PHP development experience (PHP 7.2+ is a must)
  • A good understanding of a modern PHP framework like Symfony, Zend or Laravel
  • Strong understanding of abstraction and interpolation
  • Strong automatic testing skills
  • A keen desire to want to learn and input into a highly collaborative team
  • If you’ve worked in a Kanban environment, it would be a plus but not needed

Interview process

  • A quick phone call with one of the team
  • A short coding exercise to complete in your own time
  • Onsite or Video Final Interview
  • Discuss the exercise you completed
  • Meet the team you’ll work with daily

Backend Tech Stack

  • PHP 8
  • Symfony 6
  • Kotlin
  • AWS
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • RabbitMQ
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes

Life at Lendable (check out our Glassdoor page)

The opportunity to scale up one of theworld’s most successfulfintech companies.

Best-in-classcompensation, including equity.

You can work from homeevery Monday and Fridayif you wish - on the other days we all come together IRL to be together, build and exchange ideas.

Our in-house chefprepares 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 toprivate health insurance

We're anequal opportunity employerand are looking to make Lendable the most inclusive and open workspace in London

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