Senior Kotlin Engineer

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 the UK’s newest unicorns with a team of just over 500 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.

1. 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

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

3. Build the best technology in-house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting

About the role

As we continue to build upon the diversity of our team we are thrilled to have the opportunity to bring on board a Kotlin engineer to a newly forming pod.

This is the team that put the Tech in FinTech, our current tech team is around 80 strong and have helped transform finance by building a next-generation lending platform, a next-gen credit card, and auto-finance product, and they’re at it again with brand new product launches this year. 

We're looking for an engineer with a depth of knowledge and recent hands-on Kotlin experience that enables them to not only deliver elegant, idiomatic solutions in Kotlin but also to  contribute new knowledge and experience to our frequent collaborative design forums with stakeholders from every area of the business.

There’s a lot to do, from building and integrating new API’s to help build out our new collections function to creating new internal tools and supporting our expansion of new products and supporting services in the US.

We believe that software engineering is more than just code - it’s about people. We believe that the best teams are made of great people.

That fundamentally great software engineering is about alignment, sharing what we know and being nice to each other. When we put all this together we make software engineering better by continually improving our capabilities as a team and making our working environment a happy and productive place.

Tech stack

• Backend: Kotlin 1.7.20, AWS, GraphQL (it would be nice if you were familiar with this but it’s not a deal breaker)Postgres, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes

• Frontend/Mobile: React & React Native, TypeScript, MobX, Redux, Stylus and SASS

• Other: We build our Kotlin projects using Gradle and GitHub Actions, deploying to production as soon as we finish a feature We use JUnit Jupiter, Kotest and TestContainers for automated testing

What we're looking for

• Strong commercial Kotlin experience

• An ability to write simple, clean code

• Experience and understanding of databases; relational databases are a must, NoSql would be nice tooBe able to quickly understand complex, financial business domains

• Understand different software architectures rapidlyUnderstands abstraction and interpolationAble to write comprehensive, automated tests at all levels of the pyramid

• Understanding of the Kanban agile methodology; not a deal breaker if you don’tSomeone who can get along with others and build relationships

  Someone who:

• Wants to continually learn, improve and collaborate

• Can solve problems on their own but also knows when to go to their peers for help

• Is a rational thinker and is aware of the ‘why’ behind the way they do things

• Is a pragmatist who can sensibly weigh the tradeoffs between code quality and delivery

Interview process

1. A 30 minute introductory call with the talent team

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

3. Onsite or Video technical Interview lasting 60-90 minutes, comprising of:
   Introduction of the team and kind of work you could be doing daily

4. Discussion around the coding exercise you completedInteractive architecture/design exerciseTech project walkthrough

5. Onsite or video cultural/behavioural interview - Questions you may have about the company, role, etc

• 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

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