Lead React Web 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 700 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.

We’re looking for a Staff React Engineer to join our Super App engineering group, focusing on the Zable website as a key way customers discover and use our products.

This is the team that owns and improves core customer journeys on the Zable website, from discovery and eligibility through to application and self service, working closely with product, design and backend engineers across multiple domains.

There’s a lot to do as we launch new products, bring Zable to new audiences and continually improve performance and reliability, and you will take ownership for delivering meaningful web features, guiding implementation choices and helping the team ship high quality experiences.

PHP 8, Symfony 6&7, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Postgre

SQL, Rabbit

MQ, Docker, Kubernetes, React & React Native, Type Script, MobX, Redux, Stylus and SASS, Jenkins (we deploy to production as soon as we finish a feature), Behat, PHPUnit, Jest, Selenium, Maestro and Detox.

• Provide technical leadership for web work that touches the Zable website, setting the direction for how we design and build React and Type Script front ends across Super App teams.
• Work with product managers and designers to turn ideas and high level goals into clear, deliverable web projects, breaking them into stages that multiple engineers and teams can own.
• Design and review front end architecture and patterns for the Zable website, helping the team choose sensible abstractions, manage complexity and keep the codebase healthy as it grows.
• Guide the way we approach testing and quality for Zable web journeys by setting expectations for unit, integration and end to end tests, and by helping the team keep them stable and useful.
• Lead efforts to improve performance, reliability and accessibility on the Zable website, using metrics and tools such as Sentry or Datadog to spot issues and working with others to address them.
• Identify and communicate technical debt and platform risks, and work with engineering managers and product partners to balance new feature work with necessary code and architecture improvements.
• Mentor and support other engineers through design discussions, code reviews and pairing, so that more people in the group can confidently own complex work.
• Collaborate with other technical leads in Super App and related areas to align on shared standards and to coordinate cross team initiatives that improve the wider platform.

• Deep experience building and scaling React applications in production, with strong knowledge of Type Script and modern web engineering practices.
• Experience working with product owners to break down business requirements into deliverable tasks, estimate complexity and plan work across a team.
• Ability to look at a design or outline…