Full Stack Engineer
Full Stack Engineer at LendInvest, a UK fintech lender, building and maintaining web apps and services across the full lifecycle in a hybrid Glasgow team. Day to day is split between PHP/Symfony backend and JavaScript/TypeScript + React frontend work, including REST APIs, AWS/Kubernetes operations and CI/CD.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Fullstack
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Commercial software development experience or equivalent
- Experience with at least one backend language (PHP particularly useful)
- Experience building modern web apps with JavaScript/TypeScript
- Experience with a modern frontend framework (React highly valued)
- Understanding of REST APIs and frontend-backend interactions
- Experience with relational databases and SQL
- Understanding of Git version control
- Familiarity with automated testing
- Understanding of core software engineering concepts (maintainability, separation of concerns)
- Methodical problem-solving approach
- PHP/Symfony experience
- JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js)
- Problem solving and willingness to learn
- Collaborative mindset
Nice to have
- React (or similar)
Full description
Overview
As a Full Stack Engineer at LendInvest, you will help build, maintain and improve web applications and services that support our business and customers. You’ll work in a cross-functional team across frontend and backend, contributing to new features and improving existing systems. You will solve problems across the full application lifecycle, from design to production, with a focus on quality and maintainability. This role offers hands-on learning across technologies and cloud operations in a growing fintech environment.
Pay / Benefits
- Hybrid working policy
- 25 days holiday
- Private healthcare
- Matched pension contributions up to 4%
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work scheme
Responsibilities
- Design, develop and maintain features across web apps and services
- Work across backend and frontend code to develop both areas
- Build and maintain APIs and integrations between systems
- Contribute to applications using PHP, Symfony, JavaScript/TypeScript and React
- Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code
- Participate in code reviews and provide feedback
- Collaborate with Product to translate business problems into technical solutions
- Investigate and resolve bugs and production issues
- Work with CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices
- Operate applications on AWS and Kubernetes environments
- Contribute to improving engineering standards, documentation and development practices
- Take responsibility for software quality from development to production
- Continue developing technical skills with mentorship
Key requirements
- Commercial software development experience or equivalent
- Experience with at least one backend language (PHP particularly useful)
- Experience building modern web apps with JavaScript/TypeScript
- Experience with a modern frontend framework (React highly valued)
- Understanding of REST APIs and frontend-backend interactions
- Experience with relational databases and SQL
- Understanding of Git version control
- Familiarity with automated testing
- Understanding of core software engineering concepts (maintainability, separation of concerns)
- Methodical problem-solving approach
- Problem solving
- Willingness to learn
- Collaborative mindset
- PHP/Symfony
- JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js)
- React (or similar)