Frontend Engineer - New Product

at  Marshmallow

ABOUT MARSHMALLOW

We started Marshmallow when we found out how unfair insurance prices are for people who move to the UK. All because the industry hasn’t given this huge cohort of people a second’s thought, and isn’t set up to price them properly.
We saw an opportunity to do things differently, so we made it our mission to back the ones who step outside the norm. Since we started, we’ve helped 100,000s of people get a fairer deal on their car insurance. Using technology, we serve people that are often overlooked by financial services companies, solving important problems for people who need it most.
We know there are millions of marginalised customers out there. And we know that they face unique problems that most companies aren’t even aware of. We believe that our future is helping these people by learning about their experiences, and building our company around their needs. And there are strong signs that there’s a need for a company like us. Earlier this year we hit profitability, which is a huge milestone, but the most exciting thing is that we’re only just getting started.

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

This is a unique opportunity to make a large customer-centric impact working on a brand-new greenfield product offering for Marshmallow focused on solving a really key problem for our customer base. We’re looking for Engineers who can work well in ambiguity, work autonomously with a self-starter attitude and apply their excellent skills and experience to make sensible trade-offs. You will be embedded in a completely new team within Marshmallow who will be close-knit, highly collaborative and impact focussed. While the team is small and will work mostly independently whilst building out the 0-1 solution, we support one another to get to the best outcomes and to build the right solutions.
This role requires autonomy, drive, curiosity and collaboration.

• Working in a new greenfield team launching a brand new product which will have a real impact on our customers’ lives.
• Manages and executes ambiguous technical solutions with appropriate sense of urgency to deliver impact within the team.
• Creates and promotes efficiency and speed within the team by autonomously solving problems, designing and implementing effective solutions.
• Partners with stakeholders to understand requirements, build solutions, deliver functionality, write automation tests and build continuous delivery pipelines all the way through to deployment, monitoring and supporting these systems in production.
• Collaborating very closely with product design to ensure the UX is smooth and UI is polished.
• Collaborating effectively with backend engineers to ensure well thought out API designs.
• Lead technical scoping, estimation and briefs. We don’t believe in heavyweight processes, and instead aspire to follow Agile principles. Whilst we borrow heavily from practices like Scrum and Kanban, we also borrow rituals from other high performing delivery teams, so we’re looking for engineers who are adaptable and open-minded with a sense of product mindset