Senior/Lead Product Engineer - React Native/React

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About Cleo

At Cleo, were not just building another fintech app. Were embarking on a mission to fundamentally change humanitys relationship with money. Imagine a world where everyone, regardless of background or income, has access to a hyper-intelligent financial advisor in their pocket. Thats the future were creating.

Cleo is a rare success story: a profitable, fast-growing unicorn with over $200 million in ARR and growing over 2x year-over-year. This isnt just a job; its a chance to join a team of brilliant, driven individuals who are passionate about making a real difference. We have an exceptionally high bar for talent, seeking individuals who are not only at the top of their field but also embody our culture of collaboration and positive impact.

If you’re driven by complex challenges that push your expertise, the chance to shape something truly transformative, and the potential to share in Cleo’s success as we scale, while growing alongside a company that’s scaling fast, this might be your perfect fit.

We’re looking for a brilliant Frontend React/React Native Engineer with an eye for UI/UX design to join us on our mission to fight for the worlds 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.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • 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, so you can expect to be involved in product ideation sessions, user research calls, design reviews, retrospectives, ways of working sessions, product demos, OKR reviews.

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 our company values and engineering principles which 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.

For this frontend focused role, we also have some specific asks:

  • As this is an SE3/SE4 position, we’re looking for someone with strong industry experience of using React Native / React with TypeScript for a minimum of 5+ years. If it’s less than that, maybe you want to look at our Product Engineer role.
  • 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.

What Do You Get For All Your Hard Work?

  • A competitive compensation package (base + equity) with bi-annual reviews, aligned to our quarterly OKR planning cycles.You can view our public progression framework and salary bandings here: https://cleo-ai.progressionapp.com/
  • Work at one of the fastest-growing tech startups, backed by top VC firms, Balderton & EQT Ventures.
  • A clear progression plan.We want you to keep growing. That means trying new things, leading others, challenging the status quo and owning your impact. Always with our complete support.
  • Flexibility.We can’t fight for the world’s financial health if we’re not healthy ourselves. We work with everyone to make sure they have the balance they need to do their best work.
  • Work where you work best.We’re a globally distributed team. If you live in London we have a hybrid approach, we’d love you to spend one day a week or more in our beautiful office. If you’re outside of London, we’ll encourage you to spend a couple of days with us a few times per year. And we’ll cover your travel costs, naturally.
  • Other benefits:
  • Company-wide performance reviews every 6 months.
  • Generous pay increases for high-performing team members.
  • Equity top-ups for team members getting promoted.
  • 25 days annual leave a year + public holidays (+ an additional day for every year you spend at Cleo, up to 30 days).
  • 6% employer-matched pension in the UK.
  • Private Medical Insurance via Vitality, dental cover, and life assurance.
  • Enhanced parental leave.
  • 1 month paid sabbatical after 4 years at Cleo.
  • Regular socials and activities, online and in-person.
  • Well pay for your OpenAI subscription.
  • Online mental health support via Spill.
  • Workplace Nursery Scheme.
  • And many more!

We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.

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