React Developer for £1 Billion Pound Fintech Firm - £90k!

We currently have an opportunity for passionate and experienced React and Redux Front-end Developers in a high profile project for one of the most innovative fintech companies in the personal and business foreign exchange industry. Joining a 30 person technology team in London (there is also a 10 person team up North) you will be helping to lead the front-end development of an exciting new product! 

The existing platforms have been growing organically alongside the business over the last ten years and are now being used by over 7000 customers globally and are in need of cutting edge design changes. You’ll help grow and shape one of the engineering teams, whilst providing inspiring technical leadership to the engineers who built the foundations of the success to date. You’ll join a fun, fast-moving, hardworking and exceptionally supportive team of 40 engineers, and gain experience in a profitable industry disrupter with an annual turnover in excess of £1 billion. This project is just the beginning, the company have acquired a banking licence in order to bring a groundbreaking new product to market. Simultaneously, they are re-platforming the core platform onto a modern application stack (PostgreSQL, Express, React, Node.js) and expanding the engineering capabilities rapidly, and this role is critical to their success.

Please apply for the role if you have commercial experience with most of the technologies/tools/practices below (although they are just a starting point, you will be empowered to recommend changes):

• Building optimised, scalable modular websites using React/Redux
• ES6
• HTML, CSS3, SASS/LESS, CSS Modules
• CI tools, e.g. CircleCI
• AWS
• Agile practices
• Software engineering practices like BDD, TDD, Pair Programming etc.
• Learning from and passing knowledge to like-minded and talented colleagues

It would also be great, but not essential, if you have some experience with:

• Node.js microservices
• React Native (or an interest in finding out more)
• GIT workflow
• Leading teams (either as a team lead, or informally)
• Interviewing and on-boarding new team members.

• A competitive salary, benchmarked against a peer group of the most innovative fintech companies in London
• 25 days holiday per year + your birthday off!
• Tons of opportunities for progression and development
• Company laptop & tech equipment of your choice
• Great location next to the Thames (Cannon Street/Bank)
• Free onsite Nuffield Health gym & pool
• A flexible workplace - we like to say yes!
• Opportunity to manage your own team.