Senior PHP Engineer

Employment Type: Full-Time Location Type: Remote

Position Overview

Lendable is seeking a Senior PHP Engineer to join our vibrant engineering organization. This role is crucial for innovating and building upon our cutting-edge lending platforms. You will be involved in a wide range of projects, including API development, integration, and architectural discussions, contributing significantly to the future of our products.

About Lendable

Lendable's mission is to make consumer finance faster, cheaper, and friendlier. We are one of the UK's newest unicorns, with a team of over 600 people and recognized as one of the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK. Profitable since 2017 and backed by top investors, we pride ourselves on exceptional customer reviews. We have successfully rebuilt core consumer finance products like loans, credit cards, and car finance, enabling customers to access funds in minutes. We are expanding into the UK and US markets, aiming to transform the financial products currently dominated by dated systems.

Why Join Lendable?

• Ownership: Take ownership of broad responsibilities and make impactful decisions from day one.
• Exceptional Team: Work in small teams with highly resourceful individuals dedicated to finding smarter solutions.
• Innovation: Build cutting-edge technology in-house, leveraging new data sources, machine learning, and AI.

Responsibilities

• Build and integrate new APIs to enhance the customer journey.
• Optimize existing lending platforms.
• Engage in deep architectural discussions to shape product development.
• Contribute to a collaborative engineering environment.

Our Modern Tech Stack

• Backend: PHP 8, Symfony, AWS, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD
• Testing: Behat, PHPUnit

What We're Looking For

• Modern PHP Expertise: Strong, business-oriented engineer with modern PHP development experience (PHP 8.0+). Fluency in the latest PHP features and best practices is essential.
• Framework Proficiency: Solid grasp of a modern PHP framework such as Symfony or Laravel.
• Desirable Skills:
  • Experience with Domain Driven Design, Message-Driven Systems, and Event Sourcing.
  • Familiarity with microservices architecture.
  • Experience working on financial systems.
• Quality Focus: Excellent automated testing skills (unit, integration, functional).
• Collaboration & Growth: A genuine desire to learn, collaborate, and contribute ideas within a highly collaborative team.
• Ownership: High degree of ownership and autonomy.
• Cross-functional Experience: Experience in a cross-functional environment is a plus.

Interview Process

1. Phone Call: A brief introductory call with a team member.
2. Coding Exercise: A practical coding task to be completed at your convenience.
3. Technical Interview: Discussion of your coding exercise and deeper technical assessment.
4. Culture Add Interview: Assessment of your fit within the Lendable team.

Life at Lendable

• Opportunity to scale one of the world’s most successful fintech companies.
• Best-in-class compensation, including equity.
• Hybrid Work Model: Work from home on Mondays and Fridays. On Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, team members based in the UK collaborate in our Shoreditch, London office to build and exchange ideas.
• Office Amenities: A fully stocked kitchen providing breakfast, lunch, snacks, and drinks in the office.