Overview

We’re looking for a Senior React Native Engineer to help us build the products needed to transform millions of lives. We are making high quality money coaching and advice, affordable and accessible. This is an ideal opportunity for a passionate technologist who wants to further their career and make a positive impact.

About Octopus Money

At Octopus Money, we’re on a mission to make money advice accessible to all – because the right advice can turn your life dreams into reality.

The facts are alarming: half of Brits reach retirement age without enough money to live the life they want, financial stress is a leading cause of poor mental health and only 8% of us have access to 1-to-1 advice.

There’s plenty of information out there, but most of us just wish that someone we trust would tell us what to do with our money!

With Octopus, you get a personalised plan and a friendly expert to help you make it happen. We combine advisers, coaches and technology to understand your situation and recommend the right steps for your savings, investments, pensions and more. Then, we make it easy to invest in a custom portfolio, managed by experts.

To transform millions of lives, we need a movement – so whether you’re a workplace supporting your employees’ financial health or a firm that wants to offer affordable advice to your customers, we hope you’ll join us.

We believe everyone deserves personal, 1-to-1 advice with their money.

The role and opportunity

Our development team is composed of multiple squads, each taking ownership of a vertical within our product. Each squad is composed of a product manager, frontend and backend engineers. As a senior engineer, responsibilities would include owning delivery of features; ensuring code quality and best practices are met; and mentoring and pairing with junior and mid-level engineers. Our front-end stack is built on React with Typescript, using MUI as a base for our design system, and leveraging microfrontend deployments. Our backend stack is powered by Golang, providing REST APIs.

We are looking for a problem solver who can work with the existing platform and front end engineers, collaborating closely with tech leads, design, and product managers. In addition we are looking to expand our services into mobile and are looking for eager react native experts to work on our new greenfield project.

As the company continues to scale, there will be opportunities to be involved in the technical architecture and strategy for our products and tech stack. The role has the potential to evolve into a Senior Engineer for the right candidate as the team grows.

Day to day you will be

• Writing, testing and deploying great software
• Collaborating with the tech leads and other Senior Engineers on deciding future technologies and processes
• Working with modern and new technologies and frameworks
• Working in an Agile team
• Comfortable working on large features and breaking them down into smaller technical tasks
• Building relationships with product and design
• Conducting code reviews and pairing with junior colleagues

About You

A genuine desire to help peopleWe are a mission-driven business, so it’s important that you can demonstrate a strong desire to help people and improve their lives.

Collaborative and a great team playerWe are building a great team of top performers, and you’ll need to work with others from across the business to understand problems, and deliver great solutions.

Problem solver at heart with an analytical mindsetYou should be someone who gets excited by complex problems and can find creative ways to solve them no matter what your level of knowledge and experience with the subject matter.

Excellent technical knowledgeAs a Senior Engineer you should be an expert in at least one aspect of software development and skilled in other areas. You have learned that delivering great software takes a team and has plenty of pitfalls to avoid.

Knowledge required

• 6+ years experience as a software engineer working on production systems in a commercial environment
• Experience working in a Scrum/Agile team
• Experience with RESTful services
• Commercial experience with react-native and associated build platforms, e.g. expo/EAS

Nice to have (but not essential)

• GraphQL experience
• Design libraries such as Storybook and MUI

In return we offer a base salary of £75,000 - £95,000 DOE + bonus + benefits

Please note, as a regulated business we are required to run background checks for all employees which covers adverse financial and unspent convictions. These will only take place upon a successful job offer.

Equity, benefits and workplace

We believe in equal financial education for everybody and strive for an inclusive working environment where diversity is celebrated.

Perks include flexible working, hybrid model with options to work from home, and a range of benefits such as pension, private medical insurance and more. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. If you require support completing your application please contact Luke Stepney, Head of Talent at applications@octopusmoney.com.

Note: We are unable to offer sponsorship at the moment. We require onsite attendance three days a week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) at our office in 33 Holborn, London. Please confirm you are happy with this hybrid split.

How to apply and eligibility

Interested in building your career at Octopus Money? We may request further information to assess your fit. We do not publish short-term sponsorship details here. If you require any reasonable adjustments as part of the application process, please state here, otherwise you can leave it blank. You will have another opportunity to state any adjustments if you are invited to interview.