The client

As a peer-to-peer lending company, their product allows users to access simpler and better value loans and investments. After plenty of growth, investment and success, they recently built their own bank from scratch to allow them to bring a greater range of smart finance products to the market.

The role

Joining the CS team, you would be tasked with working across multiple domains in Core Services. One of the initial challenges would be to help build a central customer dashboard and customer management functionality. Following this, they’re also looking to create centralised components for key areas such as customer interaction, account creation and user authentication. You’ll take ownership of several core front-end components and work closely with each of the product teams across the business.

Their Tech Stack: JavaScript, React, Redux, TypeScript, Webpack, Sass, Styled-Components.

How they work:

• Cross functional teams to solve customer problems.
• Sprints with future releases a constant.
• All code is peer reviewed, with knowledge sharing valued.
• The right tool or language for the job will be used, if you can prove better, they’ll roll with that.
• User research and data analysis is valued and acted upon.

The candidate

• Strong experience with JavaScript, React & Redux. An understanding of the mental model of component-based frameworks or libraries.
• Experience testing your code and understanding how it reduces risk in making changes and refactoring.
• Comfort with the JS tooling landscape – being able to use modern tools such as Webpack and Babel is beneficial.
• Experience with one of: CSS, SCSS, SASS or Styled-Components.
• Solid understanding of version control tools (ideally Git)
• An interest in innovation and fin-tech

Benefits include flexible working, private healthcare cover, discounted gym membership, season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, enhanced maternity and paternity pay as well as a games room, meditation room and subsidised yoga classes.