Senior Software Engineer

at  PensionBee

• Full-time reporting to VP Engineering
• Southwark, London / Remote (UK)
• UK Right to work required
• £67,000, annual bonus and share options
  Description
  For far too long, pensions have been difficult to understand and manage. PensionBee makes pensions simple so everyone can look forward to a happy retirement. Founded in 2014, we are a leading online pension provider.
  Operating in the £1 trillion market of Defined Contribution pension assets, PensionBee has grown rapidly through its direct-to-consumer marketing activities, creating a household brand name for the mass market. The Company has £4.4 billion in Assets Under Administration and 229,000 Invested Customers as at 31 December 2023. PensionBee has consistently maintained a Customer Retention Rate in excess of 95% and an Excellent Trustpilot rating from more than 10,000 customers, reflecting its commitment to outstanding customer service. PensionBee is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LON: PBEE).
  About the role
  Making life simple for customers takes a lot of thought and effort, so we need talented software engineers to contribute to the next chapter of PensionBee’s story. Engineers at PensionBee tackle a wide variety of challenges across multiple technologies while enjoying a balanced and inclusive culture.
  This role is a great opportunity to make an impact and grow your experience as a senior member of a small yet sustainably growing engineering function. Equally, PensionBee is a financially secure and socially beneficial company with a diverse team and a healthy work-life balance, so you can progress your career without sacrificing what matters most.

Key Responsibilities

• Help craft world-class products and features as part of one our cross-functional product teams
• Model good practices for others and help guide more junior developers, as part of our culture of continuous improvement
• Share ownership of the technical stack, both in terms of product delivery and also technical innovation
• Contribute to technical leadership and decisions across the broader engineering team, on production systems & architecture, and also automation and internal tooling
• Option to take on increasing responsibility and leadership as the team scales, including taking the lead on specific areas of tech, or progressing into people management

REQUIREMENTS:

The key attributes and experience we are looking for are as follows:

• Love for the quality of your work and attention to detail
• Able to work effectively and empathically in a multidisciplinary team, collaborating with product managers, designers, and other developers and business analysts on projects
• Competence using technologies relevant to modern web development (see below for examples)
• Confidence with good practices, patterns and techniques in software development, but also a love of learning and personal development
• Clear written and spoken English

Technologies we use

It is useful to have some experience or interest in these, but we are more interested in your ability than specific experience:

• Node.js
• HTML / CSS / JavaScript
• React & React Native
• Salesforce / Apex
• SQL and no-SQL databases (Postgres / MongoDB)
• Heroku / AWS

• Help craft world-class products and features as part of one our cross-functional product teams
• Model good practices for others and help guide more junior developers, as part of our culture of continuous improvement
• Share ownership of the technical stack, both in terms of product delivery and also technical innovation
• Contribute to technical leadership and decisions across the broader engineering team, on production systems & architecture, and also automation and internal tooling
• Option to take on increasing responsibility and leadership as the team scales, including taking the lead on specific areas of tech, or progressing into people managemen