React Native Developer

Who are 118118 Money?

At 118 118 Money, we are dedicated to helping Britain achieve financial fitness. In 2023, we proudly relaunched the iconic 118 118 twins, reaffirming our commitment to improving the financial health of individuals across the nation. Our loans and credit cards are designed specifically for those often overlooked by mainstream lenders, empowering over 800,000 customers on their journey to better financial well-being.

Our vision is to champion financial fitness throughout Britain by offering accessible products, valuable resources, and unwavering support. We are on a mission to provide fair and transparent credit solutions that promote financial well-being for all.

With an impressive 4.8 Trustpilot rating, we take pride in being an approachable lender, ready to provide clear financial support. If you’re inspired by what you’ve read and want to make a real difference in people's lives, keep reading — your next opportunity to contribute to our mission could be just a few clicks away!

What you'll do:

This is an exciting position for a React Native Developer to take the 118 118 Money mobile app to the next level.

Key responsibilities and objectives

• You will play a leading role in the design, implementation, maintenance and support of the 118 118 Money mobile app.

• Your focus will be on delivering a high performance app and great user experience.

• You approach should deliver scalable, reusable components and front-end libraries

• You’ll be a flexible all-rounder; contributing in a range of areas from:

Translating UI designs and UX wireframes into high-quality code

Optimizing components for maximum performance and user experience

Working with native modules when required

Testing and release to iOS and Google Play stores

Code review and debug activities.

• You’ll become a key player in our technology team, participating in design forums, sprint retrospectives and daily stand-ups.

• You’ll also get to know the wider business - working closely with the security, commercial, operations and compliance teams.

What you need:

• Experience as a software engineer working in a mobile development role.

• You’ll have demonstrable hands-on experience of delivering React Native apps to best practice standards. If you value clean, readable and re-usable React-Native code, you’ve got the right stuff for us.

• You’ll be passionate about software and an advocate of general engineering best practices such as domain-driven code architecture, encapsulation, separation of concerns, single responsibility, clean code practices, etc.

• You’ll have an excellent understanding of iOS and Android platform fundamentals.

• You’re familiar with the latest design patterns for mobile development like MVC frameworks.

• Experience with any of the following would be advantageous – Redux, RESTful APIs, MSSQL & relational databases, GitHub, automated test suites like Mocha, Jest, etc.

• You will have a good understanding of the Scrum delivery framework, blended with a pragmatic approach to delivering in resource and time constrained environments. You’ll know your way around scrum ceremonies, sprint ceremonies, sprint demos etc.

• You will be flexible and responsive, with the ability to adjust and change direction as the business environment and technology universe evolves and changes.

Like what you’ve heard? Great - apply now!

As a candidate, we know the interview process can be daunting and it’s important that you have a great experience with us. We will do all we can to make sure you are fully informed and excited by our story so we get to see the best from you. If you need any adjustments made to help you with the interview process, just message claire.hinson@118118money.com and we’ll do our best to accommodate them.

Following your application, we will want to learn more about you, your motivations, experiences, and values. In turn, you get to learn about our business, our culture, the role and what we can offer you.

If you think you’d be great for the role, but don’t necessarily tick all the boxes, we’d still love to hear from you, so apply today and take the first step towards an excititing future!

Equal Opportunity Employer

At 118 118 Money we are passionate about equality, diversity, and inclusion. We are committed to being representative of different cultures, background, lifestyles, and groups, where everyone has an equal chance to succeed. It is our policy to treat everyone fairly and to ensure no one is disadvantaged or receives less favourable treatment.

How we handle your data

118 118 Money requires your personal data to process your application for a position within our Company. If your application is successful through to telephone screening/interview, and you are not selected for a role, we may store your personal data for 12 months to enable our HR team to contact you should future roles be advertised.

Where you apply, but are not selected for telephone screening/interview, we will delete your personal data once the position is filled.

118 118 Money does not use automated decisioning or profiling when selecting candidates. For your rights under GDPR please see our Privacy Policy.

Please be aware that should we pursue your application, all our Financial Services employees will be expected to complete background checks to assess suitability for employment, these include a criminal record, identity, sanctions, adverse finance, fraud prevention and reference checks to comply with our regulatory requirements .