Staff/Lead React Native 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 600 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/Lead React Native Engineer to join our cross‑functional team building new product experiences in our established Zable App, used by over 500,000 customers on iOS and Android. Over the next year we have big plans for our app. New products and bringing Zable to a new audience. We are scaling our dev team up to match our ambition and we’re looking for talented people to help us experiment and succeed in these new areas. Alongside feature work we also put a big focus on improving performance, reducing tech debt, and improving scalability.

Our ideal engineer is detail focused and resourceful, and keen to understand the bigger picture outside of their product team, contributing to wider engineering and business initiatives that help us scale our UK and US based products as we continue to grow.

Our tech stack:

• Mobile Apps: Typescript, React Native, Expo, EAS, GraphQL, Relay, Zustand, Jest, React Testing Library, Maestro
• Web: Typescript, React, NextJS, Redux Toolkit, SCSS, React Testing Library, Cypress
• Backend / Infrastructure: PHP 8 (Symfony), Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes
• Tooling: Github, Jira & Confluence, Bugsnag, Datadog & Sentry, Figma & Storybook

What we’re looking for:

• You have experience working with product owners to break down business requirements into deliverable tasks and estimate the complexity of their implementation.
• You can quickly identify the difficulties of implementing a feature from an initial design wireframe or outline spec and work together to propose alternative approaches where appropriate.
• You are passionate about building high‑performing teams.
• You organise work streams in conjunction with the product owner, and look for optimisations that will improve team performance and happiness, while driving individual accountability for delivery.
• You have experience mentoring and supporting other engineers, alongside engineering managers, working to encourage their personal and professional growth, and enabling them to succeed.
• You have an expert understanding of modern Javascript with Typescript.
• You have experience leading cross‑platform mobile development using React Native.
• You have a strong understanding of the different needs of mobile users across a variety of platforms and devices.
• You’re comfortable owning and managing the full spectrum of iOS & Android application requirements, such as provisioning, certificate management, automated deployment, and app store release processes.
• You set the standard for automated testing in your team, and take a pragmatic approach to implementing and improving the various phases of the testing pyramid.
• You can quickly identify and assess technical debt and are a vocal advocate for prioritising code improvements alongside feature work when the opportunity arises.
• You understand the importance of catering to users with accessibility needs, and are familiar with the approaches and tooling required to ensure accessibility guidelines and best practices are adhered to.

What would make you stand out:

• You’ve lead teams which have built, or worked on, products that have scaled from zero users to tens or hundreds of thousands (or more), and can apply what you learnt in new contexts.
• You’ve used GraphQL in a production environment.
• You’ve had experience in scaling React Native to multiple teams.
• You’ve built and launched new products and grown the audience.
• You have in-depth experience of mobile performance best practices and debugging.
• You’ve employed staged rollouts and multivariate testing approaches to release new features and test hypotheses.
• You have experience of UI or UX design.

Interview process:

• A quick video call with a member of our talent team to learn more about you.
• A 30‑minute video call with the hiring manager to discuss your experience and answer any initial technical questions you have about the role.
• A React Native coding exercise to complete in your own time.
• A technical session with your peers where you’ll discuss your solution to the exercise, talk through some problems and scenarios, and dig deeper into your technical experience.
• A culture‑add interview with an Engineering Manager to explore your motivations and goals, assess how you could play a part in your team’s success, and better understand how we could help you thrive in your role.

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.