Senior PHP Engineer (Autolend)

About Lendable

Lendable is on a mission to make consumer finance amazing: faster, cheaper and friendlier.

> We're building one of the world’s leading fintech companies and are off to a strong start:

> One of the UK’s newest unicorns with a team of just over 400 people

> Among the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK

> Profitable since 2017

> Backed by top investors including Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs

> Loved by customers with the best reviews in the market (4.9 across 10,000s of reviews on Trustpilot)

So far, we’ve rebuilt the Big Three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards and car finance. We get money into our customers’ hands in minutes instead of days.

We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do: we’re going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions worth of financial products are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes.

Join us if you want to

> Take ownership across a broad remit. You are trusted to make decisions that drive a material impact on the direction and success of Lendable from day 1

> Work in small teams of exceptional people, who are relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status quo

> Build the best technology in-house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting

About the role

We’re looking for a PHP engineer to join our engineering team. This is the team that put the Tech in FinTech, our current tech team is around 120+ strong and has helped transform finance by building a next-generation lending platform, and a next-gen credit card and they’re at it again with another brand new product launching this year. 

There’s a lot to do, from building and integrating new APIs to further improve the customer journey and optimising the lending platform to deep architectural discussions and development of brand-new product platforms.

• Strong, modern PHP development experience (PHP 7.2+ is a must)
• A good understanding of a modern PHP framework like Symfony, Zend or Laravel
• Strong understanding of abstraction and interpolation
• Strong automatic testing skills
• A keen desire to want to learn and input into a highly collaborative team 
• If you’ve worked in a Kanban environment, it would be a plus but not needed

• A quick phone call with one of the team
• A short coding exercise to complete in your own time  
• Onsite or Video Final Interview 
• Discuss the exercise you completed
• Meet the team you’ll work with daily 

• PHP 8
• Symfony 6
• Kotlin
• AWS
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• RabbitMQ
• Docker
• Kubernetes

Life at Lendable (check out our Glassdoor page)

> The opportunity to scale up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies.

> Best-in-class compensation, including equity.

> You can work from home every Monday and Friday if you wish - on the other days we all come together IRL to be together, build and exchange ideas.

> Our in-house chef prepares fresh, healthy lunches in the office every Tuesday-Thursday

> We care for our Lendies’ well-being both physically and mentally, so we offer coverage when it comes to private health insurance

> ​We're an equal opportunity employer and are looking to make Lendable the most inclusive and open workspace in London

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