Location
Chelmsford, Essex | United Kingdom
Job description
Think Business Loans is a fast-growing finance broker that specialises in alternative finance solutions for small and medium-sized businesses in the UK. As the finance division of Bionic Group, the UK's leading business essentials service, Think has grown to become the largest finance broker of its kind in the country.
To support our continued growth and exciting plans within our Think Business, we’re looking for a Full Stack Engineer to join our Engineering Team.
Think's unique hybrid approach combines world-class technology with human expertise to deliver a supercharged, best-in-class service to their clients. This approach allows Think to provide customised finance solutions that meet the unique needs of each business they work with, while also streamlining the application and approval process for maximum efficiency, whilst always maintaining a personal and professional approach to finance.
Each year, Think services over £150m in funding to over 2000 SMEs across the UK. As the largest finance broker specialising in alternative finance, Think has built a reputation for providing innovative solutions that help businesses overcome financial challenges and achieve their goals.
The role
We're looking for an ambitious Full Stack Engineer with proven engineering experience. As a member of our engineering team, you will be responsible for high quality delivery of all Think’s technical best practices.
You'll be immersed in an agile environment, reporting to the Tech Lead and working closely with the Product team to build, scale, and optimise our platform and improve the customer experience.
You will support Think’s leadership in hiring and establishing a culture of cooperation and trust in the engineering team.
This involves:
- Designing and Implementing solutions
- Be responsible to build and run the products delivered
- Mentoring more junior resources
- Keep a close eye on the Test Automation for API and Webpages
- Support product in the decision-making process
- Collaborate in building a technical roadmap
- Keep the documentation up to date
- Keep team health metrics
Desired technical experience:
- Microservices design experience including Event Driven Architecture
- API design experience.
- SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with cloud platforms, ideally AWS and containerisation tools such as Docker.
- Experience with CI/CD is essential.
- Experience in API automation testing.
- Understanding of websites automation testing.
- Knowledge of cucumber or similar.
- Passionate about technology with a strong record of delivering world-class technology in a tech-led space.
- Experience with one or more of the following languages Ruby on Rails, Vue.js, Node.js
- Complete the profile experience in one or more of the following technologies, Typescript, GraphQL, Jest, Semaphore, Circle CI, Heroku
- Passionate about DevOps.
About you
- You're passionate about software development.
- Your code reads like well-written prose.
- You consider working in a safe and friendly environment important.
- Good sense of ownership.
- You are keen to understand customer problems.
- Demonstrated abilities in driving operational excellence and best practices.
The interview process
- Initial conversation with our Talent Acquisition Team
- 1st stage interview with the Hiring Manager
- Technical based interview
- Final stage interview with wider Engineering team members
Benefits
We know that our employees are what sets us aside from our competitors, our benefits are just part of the way we say thanks.
Enhance your health & wellbeing ????
- Private healthcare cover
- Employee Assistance Programme, including a virtual GP service, priority physio & talking therapies
Taking time away from work ????️
- 25 days annual leave plus the 8 UK bank holidays, increasing with tenure
- 1 paid family/religious day of leave per year - following successful probation period
- 1 paid charity volunteering day per year
- Option to buy/sell up to an additional 3 days leave per year
Family matters: for the special moments ????
- Enhanced maternity, paternity or shared parental leave
- 2 days off for your wedding upon joining, and up to 5 days after 2 years' service
- Flexible working options & a hybrid work approach
Financial wellbeing ????
- Auto-enrolled salary sacrifice pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Season ticket Loans, salary advances & loans to buy/rent a home – based on tenure
- Cycle to work scheme
Recognition ????
- Highflyers incentive, a VIP experience for our high performers across Bionic group to celebrate success
- Company summer & Christmas party celebrations, business and local zonely & annual awards and recognition
- Long service awards
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