Javascript engineer

About the company:

At Smart Pension, we're a diverse team, made up of people from different backgrounds, experiences and skills. Our goal is to build great products to help people plan for their financial futures. We’re constantly developing new ideas to help people look after their pension schemes, in the UK and abroad. We’ve grown to a team of over 500 talented people, all dedicated to creating the best experience for our customers. Recently we made it onto Great Places to Work UK's Best Workplaces 2021 at the no.22 spot for large companies! If you think you can help us build a smarter future, come and work with us.

Smart Pension is committed to crafting an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. You will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

Smart is a rapidly-growing fintech company transforming the retirement industry for the better. We’re changing the way people interact with their retirement savings using our award-winning platform which is powered by our inhouse technology. We’ve gone from a small start-up to a global industry-leader with over £2bn in assets under management. Join us to transform retirement, savings and financial well-being, across all generations, around the world.

Our website: https://www.smartpension.co.uk/

Salary fork:

68 000 - 85 000 GBP per year gross

(80 000 - 100 000 USD at the rate of exchange on the current day)

Type of work:

Full-time

Type of employment:

Office (London, UK)

Job description:

We are looking for a seasoned Senior FullStack (Node/ React) Engineer(London, UK) to join the team and be responsible for helping us build new and innovative products for our platform.

Responsibilities:

- Deliver small projects across a range of initiatives from boosting user engagement to internal bus tooling;

- Engineer a better code base with your teams, and help them improve;

- Partner with the Engineering team to deliver new projects;

- Work within a smaller 8-10 person agile engineering team, part of a wider Engineering organisation;

- Work on tickets assigned to you, this includes writing code and specs (tests) and checking that new code passes other test coverage;

- Review pull requests from other developers;

- Work in a collaborative, agile team environment;

- Mentor junior developers;

- Directly report to a Tech Lead who will help mentor you and guide your career.

Position requirements:

• Significant commercial experience with JavaScript/TypeScript;
• Experience working with React;
• Experience working with Node, and serverside JavaScript/TypeScript;
• Experience working with XState or similar state management libraries;
• Experience with responsive and adaptive design frameworks;
• Excellent verbal interpersonal skills - we are looking for people who are engaging and bring ideas to the table;
• Experience with Ruby on Rails and GraphQL based API’s would be useful (but not a deal-breaker);
• Most importantly, a desire to teach, learn, grow and deliver software.

Working conditions:

• £500 personal training budget to spend on books, courses, conferences or training materials to help you develop;
• Health Insurance (via Equipsme) including Dental, Eyecare and EAP;
• Death in Service via Unum (4 x Base Salary);
• Season ticket loans;
• 5 week sabbatical after 5 years;
• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays. 1 extra day holiday after 2 years and then every year up to a max of 30 days holiday;
• Enhanced maternity and paternity (maternity - 6 months fully paid / paternity - 3 weeks fully paid);
• Access to PerkBox;
• Access to Smart Rewards;
• Pension scheme via salary sacrifice. Smart Pension will match your contributions up to 5% of your salary;
• Cycle to work scheme;
• 30% discount on orders from our sister company Arena Flowers, Britain's most ethical florist. They offer unique hand-tied bouquets, luxury flowers, letterbox flowers, plants and gifts to spend on friends and loved ones or even for yourself.