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Senior Frontend Engineer

Created on 28-06-2018

Description

Description

Funding Circle brings together small businesses and investors in a way that is truly revolutionary. We are here to foster an environment where small business can thrive. Our online platform provides a marketplace where investors receive better returns and small businesses find lower rates. The driving force behind our product is our engineering team; we are building a new payment processing platform that is elegant and sustainable. We are creating scalable infrastructure on a global scale, and we want you to be a part of it!

Our mission: to build a better financial world.

Prospectus:

Would you describe yourself as a creative and ambitious engineer who’s always knows when to use the right tool for the job? If your answer is yes, you’re going to fit right in with our team. We’re looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Frontend Engineer who uses elegant design to give Funding Circle that competitive edge. We are a group of passionate engineers whose bread and butter is learning new ways of improving our skills and our platform, and fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment - we’re looking for partners in crime who feel the same.Bird’s eye view of the role:

  • Be a builder: our engineers are building and expanding our highly-available architecture to handle over £3 billion in loans originated through our pipeline. We’re creating resilient UIs that allow our users to easily navigate through our apps.
  • Be a collaborator: you will be expected to forge deep bonds with your business counterparts to truly understand the needs of our Borrowers and Investors. We work in an Agile environment including pair programming and daily standups.
  • Be a consolidator: we’re constantly reevaluating our stack and looking for new ways to increase efficiency. One of your key responsibilities will be to consolidate our front-end architecture approach.
  • Be an innovator: you will apply innovative technology to scale in terms of software performance, maintainability, and business processes.
  • Be a teacher: be generous with your time and expertise to teach stakeholders how to answer their own questions with tools you build.

Essential/required skills

  • Professional frontend experience preferably a fullstack engineer with a passion for frontend.
  • Hands-on experience building web applications using HTML, CSS and another language (Ruby, Python, Java, etc.)
  • familiarity with pattern libraries and style-guide driven development.

Preferred skills

  • Github or other open source code we can check out.
  • experience working with agile, iterative development and best practices such as Continuous Deployment, Continuous Integration, BDD and TDD.

Why Join Us?

Happy employees are productive employees, that’s why we offer a hearty benefits package. From subsidized catered lunches, to a competitive salary, equity, and health benefits, we’ve got you covered! That being said, have you heard about what we're doing?! Our mission is what really motivates us to come to work each day:

  • We're supporting small business, the engine of economic growth.
  • We're helping facilitate higher yields for investors and lower interest rates for borrowers.
  • We can fund loans extremely quickly, all online!
  • We have a clear competitive advantage globally in areas like domain expertise and regulatory processes.

To learn more about our work environment, culture, and perks, visit:

Salary: competitive

CLOSING DATE: 26th July 2018

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