Job Description:

Description

• Full-time; reporting to the Head of Engineering • Southwark, London / Remote (UK) • UK Right to Work required • £60,000, annual bonus and equity scheme

Founded in 2014, PensionBee’s simple and engaging product has made us the UK’s fastest growing and most loved pension brand. From a clear and simple transfer journey, to an app to keep track of your retirement, we put customers front and centre of what we do. Since April 2021 we are listed on the LSE which has accelerated our growth.

Making life simple for customers takes a lot of thought and effort, and we want to evolve our technology rapidly to enable that, so we need talented software engineers to contribute to the next chapter of PensionBee’s story. Engineers at PensionBee tackle a wide variety of challenges across multiple technologies while enjoying a balanced and inclusive culture.

This role is a great opportunity to make an impact and grow your experience as a senior member of a small yet sustainably growing engineering function. Equally, PensionBee is a financially secure and socially beneficial company with a diverse team and a healthy work-life balance, so you can progress your career without sacrificing what matters most.

Key Responsibilities

• Help craft world-class products and features as part of one our cross-functional product teams • Model good practices for others and help guide more junior developers, as part of our culture of continuous improvement • Share ownership of the technical stack, both in terms of product delivery and also technical innovation • Contribute to technical leadership and decisions across the broader engineering team, on production systems & architecture as well as automation and internal tooling • Option to take on increasing responsibility and leadership as the team scales, including taking the lead on specific areas of tech, or progressing into people management

Requirements

The key attributes and experience we are looking for are as follows:

• Love for the quality of your work and attention to detail • Able to work effectively and empathically in a multidisciplinary team, collaborating with product managers, designers, and other developers and business analysts on projects • Competence using technologies relevant to modern web development (see below for examples) • Confidence with good practices, patterns and techniques in software development, but also a love of learning and personal development • Clear written and spoken English

Technologies we use

It is useful to have some experience or interest in these, but we are more interested in your ability than specific experience:

• Node.js • HTML / CSS / JavaScript • React & React Native • Salesforce / Apex • SQL and no-SQL databases (Postgres / MongoDB) • Heroku / AWS

Equal opportunity

We welcome all candidates and are proud to have been awarded Employer of the Year at the Financial Adviser Diversity in Finance Awards 2021 and UK Fintech Awards 2022 for Diversity and Inclusion. We believe the right drive is often more important than the full amount of relevant experience or degrees, so if you have an interest in the role and are passionate about what we do, get in touch.We want everyone to be able to access the same opportunity, and some people might need extra support to have this access. If there’s an adjustment we can make that would help you perform to the best of your ability during the application process, like using a computer during a task instead of writing by hand, or booking in time for a longer interview, please let us know.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, end of year bonus and equity scheme • 25 days annual leave, 5 extra days for parents of children under 18 and generous Maternity, Paternity & Adoption Leave. • Perkbox, UK Healthcare Cash Plan and Income Protection Insurance • Regular company-wide sessions: CEO Session, Show & Tell and Lunch & Learn, giving you an opportunity to share your ideas and learn about other areas of the business • Regular socials: Cross-team brunches, Book Club, Pub Quiz, Parties and more! • A warm and motivated team working to make a real difference for our customersa

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