Senior PHP Engineer (UK Loans)

About Lendable

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 theUK’s newest unicornswith a team of just over 500 people

• Among thefastest-growing tech companiesin the UK

• Profitable since2017

• Backed by top investors includingBalderton Capital and Goldman Sachs

• Loved by customers with thebest reviews in the market(4.9 across 10,000s of reviews onTrustpilot)

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

1. Take ownershipacross a broad remit. You are trusted to make decisions that drive a material impact on the direction and success of Lendable from day 1

2. Work insmall teams of exceptional people, who are relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status quo

3. 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 optimizing 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

Backend Tech Stack

• PHP 8

• Symfony 6

• Kotlin

• AWS

• MySQL

• PostgreSQL

• RabbitMQ

• Docker

• Kubernetes

Interview process

1. A quick phone call with one of the team

2. A short coding exercise to complete in your own time

3. Onsite or Video Final Interview

4. Discuss the exercise you completed

5. Meet the team you’ll work with daily

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 we all come together IRL 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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