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Since 2015, we've lent over $21 billion across the UK and US, helped create more than 58,000 new homes and 36,000 new jobs, and supported hundreds of thousands of personal savers - all while driving economic growth in the markets we serve.\nAbout the team\nPersonal Savings and Wealth exists to make saving simple, personal and rewarding, helping families build financial confidence from everyday savings to long-term plans.\nWe own the full product lifecycle, from spotting customer needs and shaping propositions through to design, build, launch and growth. That means the end-to-end experience across mobile and web, the secure, resilient systems behind it (money movement, identity and customer servicing), and working closely with marketing, operations and commercial teams to take products to market and measure what lands. 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We share learnings in blame-free formats, so that we do not repeat things that have failed, but still have confidence to innovate.\n\nSeek to understand our users - We constantly seek understanding from data and conversations to better serve our users' needs, taking an active part in research to hear from them directly and regularly.\n\nEmbrace and enable continuous deployment - Seamless delivery of changes into an environment - without manual intervention - is essential for us to ensure that we are highly productive; consider resiliency; and practice security by design.\n\nTest outside-in, test first - TDD keeps us confident in moving fast and deploying regularly. We want to solve user problems, and so we test with that mindset - writing scenarios first, then considering our solution; coupling tests to behaviour, rather than implementation.\n\nYou build it, you run it - We embrace DevOps culture and end-to-end ownership of products and features. 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