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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 their Next 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 Staff Frontend Engineer with an eye for UI/UX design and understanding architecture, to join us on our mission to fight for the world's financial health. You'll be joining a pillar 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 pillar 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 senior peers in your pillar to provide technical insight into upcoming work, and leading the delivery by helping pull everyone together to get it shipped.
- Mentoring colleagues to help them grow as engineers and actively supporting their development.
- 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.
- Using AB tests, feature flags and other tools that let us iterate quickly, and using data to dig into user journeys, detecting problems and helping to optimise the Cleo experience.
- Getting involved in cross-cutting concerns that lift our entire engineering effort with the rest of the frontend chapter.
- Being a leading voice in shaping the work of your squad / pillar beyond technical aspects, participating in product ideation, user research, design reviews, retrospectives, and more.
Examples of Product Feature Work:
- Building a secured credit card from scratch to help our users improve their credit scores without changing their habits.
- Launching our new budget rewind feature to help users understand their pay-cycle and provide them with better analysis of how they got on with their budget.
- Adding discount plans and tiering options to our subscriptions so we can experiment with the best pricing for different types of users.
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.
As this is an SE5 position, as described in our public progression framework, we're looking for someone who has at least 5+ years industry experience of using React or React Native. If it's not quite that much, maybe you want to look at our other Frontend openings.
What Do You Get for All Your Hard Work?
- A competitive compensation package (£109,763 - £131,626 base + equity).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 like Sofina, 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.
- Hybrid-first:Join our hybrid-first team, where we blend the best of both remote and in-office work. We'd love to see our team members based in London 1-2 times a week. On Wednesdays, we buy you lunch but you can come to the office on whichever days work best for you! For our remote employees we'll cover your travel to the London office every term (every four months).
- Other Benefits:
- Check out our new benefits package here: https://web.meetcleo.com/blog/big-benefits-energy-the-latest-cleo-employee-benefits
- 25 days annual leave a year + public holidays (+ an additional day for every year you spend at Cleo).
- 6% employer-matched pension in the UK.
- Company-wide performance reviews every 8 months e.g. every 2 terms, in line with our termly cycles (Jan-April, May-Aug, Sept-Dec):
- Generous pay increases for high-performers and high-growth team members.
- Equity top-ups for team members getting promoted.
- 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.
- We'll pay for your OpenAI subscription.
- Online mental health support via Spill.
- And many more!
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. Then we'll be able to apply what we learn to better support our UK users in the future.#J-18808-Ljbffr
