Mobile Engineer

Funding Circle Ltd.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology company in Greater London is seeking an experienced Mobile Engineer proficient in React Native. In this role, you will be part of an agile team, building innovative software solutions that help small businesses access flexible financing. The ideal candidate has strong JavaScript skills, automated testing experience, and is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment. This position offers opportunities for professional growth and extensive employee benefits.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Dedicated annual learning allowance

Fitness discounts

Enhanced parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Experience in implementing business functionality using React Native.
• Experience in mentoring colleagues.
• Experience with code version control.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate as part of an agile cross-functional team.
• Build great user experiences for customers.
• Participate in code reviews and technical discussions.
• Write unit, integration and end-to-end tests.

Skills

Commercial experience with React.js

Strong mobile automated testing experience

Good JavaScript knowledge

Experience with continuous delivery

Familiarity with mobile ecosystem tooling

Ability to work with REST APIs

Solid understanding of software engineering principles

Excellent communication skills

Tools

Firebase

Gradle

XCode

Job description

Overview

Mobile Engineer – We are looking for an experienced React Native Engineer who wants to work on an exciting new product within an already successful financial company. You are comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment and thrive in solving hard problems within a cross-functional team. As a key member of our engineering team, you will play a vital role in building and scaling our Mobile App, empowering businesses to access flexible financing solutions.

Your passion for technology and your ability to solve complex problems will be instrumental in driving our mission forward.

Who we are

We’re Funding Circle. We back small businesses to succeed. At Funding Circle, we believe the world needs small businesses. That’s why we’ve made it our mission to help them get the finance they need to grow. With more than a decade of expertise, we’ve built a platform with cutting-edge data and technology that’s reshaping SME lending. In minutes, SMEs across the UK can get a decision and access to competitive funding quickly.

We know that good business is about good people. We pride ourselves on providing meaningful, human support as well as fast, hassle-free processes to deliver an unbeatable customer experience.

Role

• Collaborating as part of an agile cross-functional team, as well as technology guilds
• Building great user experiences for customers
• Delivering innovation through software
• Implement business functionality, using React Native, for both iOS and Android
• Proactively problem solving, identifying and confidently mitigating any risks, issues or control weaknesses that arise in your day-to-day
• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions and team collaboration
• Mentor your colleagues
• Write unit, integration and end-to-end tests to ensure code is well tested
• QA features to find bugs, usability issues and performance concerns

What we’re looking for

• Commercial experience with React.js, React Native and the associated ecosystem
• Strong mobile automated testing experience (unit, integration & end-to-end)
• Good JavaScript knowledge, ideally including TypeScript
• Experience with continuous delivery, build pipelines and app releases (both App Store and Play Store)
• Familiarity with mobile ecosystem tooling such as Firebase
• Familiarity with Gradle, XCode and other native build tools
• Ability to work with REST APIs and third-party services/libraries
• Solid understanding of software engineering principles
• Experience with code version control
• Excellent communication, both written and verbal

At Funding Circle we are committed to building diverse teams so please apply even if your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the requirements.

Want to learn more?

• Impact: We have a huge impact on the businesses that borrow through our platform and the communities they serve. Last year, £6.9bn of GDP generated. Read more at https://www.fundingcircle.com/uk/impact
• Customer feedback: To see what our customers think, visit https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/fundingcircle.com
• Platform evolution: Our award-winning multi-product platform is solving SME finance challenges and continues to evolve to meet needs.

Why join us?

At Funding Circle we celebrate and support the differences that make you, you. We’re proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and affirmative-action employer. We truly believe that diversity makes us better. We back our Circlers to build their own incredible career, with a focus on Health, Wealth, Development & Lifestyle.

A few highlights:

• Health: Private Medical Insurance through Aviva, Dental Insurance through Bupa, MediCash, access to free online therapy sessions and exclusive discounts with Hertility for reproductive health support.
• Wealth: Octopus Money Coach, free mortgage advisor partnership and discounts across numerous retailers through Perks at Work.
• Development: Dedicated annual learning allowance and full access to internal learning platform.
• Lifestyle: Wellhub (fitness discounts), Electric Car Scheme and more!

And finally, we have award-winning parental leave policies supporting parents through enhanced maternity, partner and adoption leave, as well as additional leave for parental bereavement and for fertility treatments.

Ready to make a difference? We’d love to hear from you.