Senior Product Engineer - React Native/React

Cleo
London
1 year ago
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About Cleo

Most people come to Cleo to do work that matters. Every day, we empower people to build a life beyond their next paycheck, building a beloved AI that enables you to forge your own path toward financial well-being.

Backed by some of the most well-known investors in tech, we’ve reached millions of people to support them throughout their financial lives, from their first paycheck to their first home and beyond. We're hitting headlines too. This year, Forbes named us as one of theirNext Billion Dollar Startups, and we were crowned the 'Hottest Tech Scaleup' at the Europas.

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The Role

We’re looking for a brilliant Frontend React Native Engineer with an eye for UI/UX design to join us on our mission to fight for the world's financial health. You’ll be joining a team of adaptable, creative and product-focused engineers who ship working software. We understand our customers, we understand their pain, and we are passionate about helping them.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Joining a cross-functional product squad with a mix of frontend engineers, designers, UX writers, backend engineers, data analysts and others to develop features that improve our users’ financial health.
  • Collaborating with other leaders in your squad and pillar to provide technical insight into upcoming feature work, and leading the delivery of work by helping pull everyone together to get it shipped.
  • Mentoring your colleagues to help them become the best engineers they can be.
  • Working on our React Native application, building out amazing experiences for our users which bring financial health to life in the unique Cleo tone of voice.
  • Writing automated tests alongside your code to give us the confidence to ship it.
  • Using AB-Tests, feature flags and other tools that let us iterate quickly.
  • Using data to dig into user journeys, detecting problems and helping to optimise the Cleo experience.
  • Being part of the rota for our weekly app releases to the Apple and Google app stores.
  • Getting involved in cross-cutting concerns that lift our entire engineering effort with the rest of the frontend chapter.
  • Taking part in shaping all the work your squad does, not just the technical parts. Delivery is a team sport, and we encourage everyone at Cleo to share their ideas.

About You

Firstly, and most importantly, all of the above sounds exciting to you and you want to make a positive difference in society by improving the financial health of our users worldwide.

You’ve also read ourcompany valuesandengineering principleswhich drive our ways of working and help us deliver working software to our users, learn what works and iterate quickly to improve it. You share and embrace these opinions and are passionate about using them to deliver value.

  • As this is an SE4 position we’re looking for someone who has strong industry experience of using React Native / React with TypeScript for a minimum of 4 years.
  • As your work will primarily involve working on features for our mobile apps, we’d either like to see some proven experience in this area or a genuine passion for moving into the mobile app space.

Why Should I Apply?

  • There’s a clear engineering career growth framework. Whether you want to develop your career as a sole contributor or head down the engineering management track, you can grow with us!
  • You’ll be joining an open and collaborative team where you’ll be heard and get to make a difference.
  • You’ll be joining a team of respected frontend engineers.
  • Work where you work best … We’re a globally distributed team.
  • Work when you work best … we have flexible hours to enable you to work at your best.

What Do You Get for All Your Hard Work?

  • A competitive compensation package (base + equity).
  • Work at one of the fastest-growing tech startups, backed by top VC firms, Sofina, Balderton & EQT Ventures.
  • A clear progression plan.
  • Flexibility: We work with everyone to make sure they have the balance they need to do their best work.
  • Hybrid-first:Join our hybrid-first team, where we blend the best of both remote and in-office work.

UK App access:The Cleo app is no longer downloadable in the UK. If you’re an existing user, you’ll still have access to the app. But some features won’t be available. Why? 99% of our users are based in the US – where financial health is often overlooked. We’ve decided to shift our focus to where we can provide the most value and make the greatest impact for users who need it most.

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