Overview

Join to apply for the Senior Frontend Engineer role at hackajob. hackajob is collaborating with Octopus Money to connect them with exceptional tech professionals for this role. 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.

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 expanding our services into mobile and are looking for eager React Native experts to work on our new greenfield project. As the company scales, 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
• Breaking down large features into smaller technical tasks
• Building relationships with product and design
• Conducting code reviews and pairing with junior colleagues

Knowledge Required

• 6+ years of experience as a software engineer working on production systems in a commercial environment
• Strong TypeScript skills
• Extensive React Native experience
• 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
• Monorepo experience (Turbo, NX, Lerna)

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

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Software Development