Senior Web Engineering Lead

About Moneybox

Moneybox is the award-winning app that helps you turn your money into something greater. We’ve brought saving, investing, home-buying, and retirement services all together into one simple app, so it’s easier than ever to achieve your goals and build wealth, whatever your starting point. 

• We are looking for a Senior Web Engineering Lead to join us to build and lead a team with ownership of our web applications.  We work in a fast paced environment using the Shape Up methodology to ensure we deliver meaningful projects to our customers. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Lead a team of engineers who will be responsible for developing all user facing web applications at Moneybox.  Including the new web app that gives users access to the Moneybox platform alongside our mobile apps.
• Hire and build the team, responsible for all areas of the recruitment process and team structure design.
• Design, develop & release features for the web application.  Ownership of the full tech stack that serves our web applications.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, data analysts & other technical functions to refine ideas into solutions that our customers love.  Responsible for all aspects of the product delivery cycle.
• Drive the technical roadmap ensuring our project remains best in class and follows industry best practices.  Propose and implement improvements to our application, architecture and delivery pipeline.
• Provide input into the overall front-end strategy.  Collaborate with the Head of Front-End and leads of the mobile applications.

• The Web Application is a new addition to our tech stack at Moneybox. Therefore it’s built using modern technologies that will evolve as the project grows and is built to integrate with our existing backend services and mobile applications.  This includes:

• Next.js / React.js with Server Side Rendering
• Re-usable component library styled using Tailwind CSS
• Zustand / TanStack Query for Data & State Management
• Backend API’s written in C# / .NET Core
• Infrastructure in Azure: App Services, Docker, Azure Pipelines, Webpack

• Highly experienced product focused Web Engineer.  Preferably with 5+ years commercial experience, or equivalent.
• Experience in managing and leading a team.  Able to support delivery teams to implement projects and support members personal development.
• Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS & Javascript/Typescript and modern web standards
• Experience in creating rich user interfaces and custom components. Ensuring user experience & quality is at the forefront of everything you do.
• Experience working with relevant stakeholders to refine requirements and deliver large scale projects.
• Experience in proposing and implementing large scale technical improvements.  Keeps up to date with industry trends and spreads this knowledge throughout the team.

• Opportunity to join a fast-growing, award-winning and super ambitious startup
• Work with a friendly team of highly motivated individuals
• Be in an environment where you are listened to and can actually have an impact
• Thriving collaborative and inclusive company culture
• Company shares
• Company pension scheme
• Hybrid working environment
• Home office furniture allowance
• Personal Annual Learning and Development budget
• Private Medical Insurance
• Health Cash Plan (cashback on visits to the dentist & opticians etc)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Gympass subscription to a variety of gyms and wellbeing apps
• Enhanced parental pay & leave
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays with additional days added with length of service.
• Our office is in London, by the Oxo Tower

Our Commitment to DE&I:

At Moneybox, we promote, support and celebrate inclusion, diversity and equity for all, so that everyone can bring their full selves to work. We believe that diversity drives innovation, and that if our team is representative of our community of customers, we can better support their needs. To ensure our recruitment processes provide an equal opportunity for all applicants to succeed, we encourage you to let us know if there are any adjustments that we can make. We are open-minded and always willing to go the extra mile to ensure all applicants can present their full self and potential

Working Policy:

We have a hybrid policy that includes 2 days from our London office and 3 from home. If the role states it is either hybrid or remote candidates must be based within the UK.

Visa Sponsorship:

At this time we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this role and we cannot consider overseas applications.

Please read before you apply!

Please note if offered a position, the offer is conditional and subject to the receipt of satisfactory pre-employment checks which we will conduct such as criminal record and adverse credit history checks. As a regulated financial business, an adverse financial history could impact your suitability for the role. If you are aware of anything that could affect your suitability for the role, please let us know in advance.

By sending us your application you acknowledge and agree to Moneybox using your personal data as described below.

We collect applicants’ personal data to manage our recruitment related activities. Consequently, we may use your personal data to evaluate your application, to select and shortlist applicants, to set up and conduct interviews and tests, to evaluate and assess the results, and as is otherwise needed in the recruitment process generally.We do not share your personal data with unauthorised third parties. However, we may, if necessary, share your personal data to carefully selected third parties acting on our behalf. This may include transfers to servers and databases outside the country where you provided us with your personal data. Such transfers may include for example transfers and/or disclosures outside the European Economic Area and in the United States of America.

If you are unsuccessful in your application, we may keep your details on file so that we can tell you about other suitable vacancies which may be of interest to you when they arise in the future. If you would rather we did not keep your details on file, you can contact us at email: DPO@moneyboxapp.com