Senior Software Engineer - PHP
LendInvest, United Kingdom
Job Description
About us
LendInvest (www.lendinvest.com) is the UK’s leading marketplace for property finance and one of the country’s largest non-bank mortgage lenders. Since launching in 2008, LendInvest has lent over 2.8 billion ($3.6 billion) and raised over 1.8 billion ($2.3 billion) of debt and equity from investors.
LendInvest uses technology to provide borrowers with short-term property finance and buy-to-let mortgages, and makes it possible for investors - from individuals to global financial institutions including HSBC, Citigroup and NAB - to invest in the loans it originates in return for a stable income secured against property.
LendInvest is on a mission to make property finance simple creating products that make it easy to lend and invest in property. We are on track to becoming the largest non-bank mortgage lender in the UK, by building an automated, scalable platform that seamlessly connects investors with borrowers.
About the team
Our technology team accounts for approximately a quarter of the workforce. We’re split into six cross-functional teams, led by product managers, that are delivering along specific value streams. There are many interesting challenges ahead, and we're happy for people to move between teams. As an engineer we encourage direct collaboration with the wider business, and you'd be able to engage directly with anyone across the whole company in order to get the job done. We’re transparent, running regular tech demos every Friday to show the business what we have been working on. This gives everyone an insight and accelerates collaboration.
We think that OOP and testing make great software. All our backend runs as RESTful api written in PHP and some NodeJS. We believe containerization, with Docker, is the most efficient way to serve our webapps, and have decided to host our Kubernetes cluster on AWS. We love Jenkins, which we use to automate the deployment pipeline, and a DevOps team manages our cloud infrastructure.
In short, we run a micro-service architecture on a modern infrastructure, leveraging great open source tools amp; frameworks, with an Agile, product-led roadmap that results in code being released to production several times a day.
About you and your work
As a Senior PHP Engineer, you will be part of our core engineering team, helping build the backend systems used by borrowers and investors alike as well as automating our internal processes to guarantee quick application responses and user experience.
You're a passionate backend developer with experience in PHP and preferably Symfony (if you don’t have Symfony don’t worry), but are ready to take on the challenge of working in an agile environment.
If you joined our team, this is what a typical day might look like:
- Take part in daily standups
- Go through the project board to evaluate the work to be done
- Discuss the best implementation with other developers
- Evaluate where and how to refactor or improve the existing code
- Implement the stories with a good test coverage
- Review other developers code
- Collaborate with the QA Engineers to test the stories
- Release your code in production
- Collaborate with the team to identify and implement the best architectural solutions
- Collaborate with the team to design elegant and efficient database schemas
- Collaborate with the team to design elegant api contracts
- Collaborate with the team to improve our ways of working
- Collaborate with the product manager to understand the business logic and write the stories
- Mentor less experienced developers
Perks of working with LendInvest include:
- 25 days’ holiday
- Matched pension contributions up to 4%
- Discretionary share-option scheme
- Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
- Private healthcare (Vitality)
- Mental health initiatives
- A selection of breakfast cereals, fresh fruit, and snacks each day (including an open bar from 5.30pm)
- Free lunch on Fridays (when back to the office) while listening to company presentations
- Discounts via Perkbox
Due to current public health protections, the location for this role is currently remote, however we do believe in building face-to face relationships and look forward to welcoming you to our central London office in Fitzrovia when we return. However, we are open to flexibility with working from home.