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.

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.

Mobile Apps

• Typescript, React Native, Expo, EAS, Graph
  
  QL, 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, Rabbit
  
  MQ, Docker, Kubernetes

Tooling

• Github, Jira & Confluence, for our code & product management processes

• Bugsnag, Datadog & Sentry for debugging and reporting

• Figma & Storybook, for our design process

For more information about how we work you can also check out our blog and read more about our workplace culture.

• 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 Java script 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…