Software Engineer - Full Stack
Published on April 25, 2024
Founded in 2020, our mission is to empower mortgage lenders and leverage technology to enable them to focus on what they do best, lending. An oligopoly of technology suppliers provide a handful of systems that are outdated, get infrequent updates and are painful to customise. Lenders are frustrated and ready for change. Mast is building cloud-native mortgage technology to help lenders process more mortgage applications in less time. We want to help lenders get to a mortgage decision a lot faster and a lot more efficiently, transforming the buying journey for the borrower. We are building self-service products where lenders own all the controls and levers so that they can offer the best service possible. We strongly believe that solving and addressing the hard problems at the roots is the only way to transform an industry.
Mast is solving one of the most important problems in lending: Speed. Our mission is to make lending better, smoother and faster for everyone. We do that by empowering mortgage lenders and leveraging technology to enable them to focus on what they do best – lending.
Mast is building cloud-native mortgage technology infrastructure to help lenders process more mortgage applications in less time. We want to help lenders get to a mortgage decision faster and more efficiently, transforming the buying journey for the borrower.
Responsibilities
You'll work closely with team to support the engineering effort on the Mast platform, our state-of-the-art mortgage origination system. That means helping to scope user stories, participating in sprint planning, and writing, testing and deploying great code. We're very much inspired by the Pivotal Way.
We're growing the team to be able to ship more features and onboard more clients. But we're still a small team, so everyone's expected to pitch in to all parts of the product and engineering lifecycle!
We rely heavily on Rails and friends (Turbo + Stimulus), Vue for more complex front-end pieces, Heroku for our infrastructure, and AWS for backing services.
Our interview process is an initial phone screen, a take-home code task, and a half-day on-site (or remote) pairing session. We promise not to ask you any trick questions or make you code on a whiteboard!
- Work with the engineering team to ideate on and build the Mast platform
- Write thoughtful, high-quality code – using TDD where possible
- Proactively maintain and improve our codebase
- Support product improvement drives and independently identify potential product improvements
- Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
- Work on integrations with other potential partners and on APIs
- Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
- Learn and understand our infra stack - Heroku + AWS
- Build systems to automate as much of the developer experience as possible
Requirements
- 3+ years experience in web application design and development
- Strong experience with Rails, which is at the core of our tech stack, and ideally Stimulus and Turbo. Experience with JS front-end frameworks is a bonus (we use Vue for some parts of the platform that require more interactivity)
- Strong experience creating and deploying complex web applications that are scalable, manageable and performant
- Experience writing automated unit, integration and end-to-end tests in RSpec
- Working knowledge of Unix-like operating systems
- Ability to work independently in a team environment
- Willingness to pair program now and then! When you join you'll get a Tuple account for seamless remote pairing
Desirable
- Experience of pairing, Agile, TDD
- Knowledge of banking/finance/fintech
- Previous startup/scale-up experience
Salary Range
- £50,000 - £60,000 + Stock Options
Please note that we are unable to sponsor visa applications at this time.
Benefits
- Pension plan
- Employee First Company (Flexible working culture with HQ in central London)
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- 5 weeks a year: work from anywhere
- Equipment budget
- Learning & development budget
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Stock Option Plan
- Donuts every Thursday + breakfast every other Wednesday
- Monthly team socials + Quarterly Team Meetups @ HQ
Mast. is an equal opportunity employer and we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
ABOUT US
Founded in 2020, Mast is a venture-backed fintech building cloud-native mortgage origination technology infrastructure to help lenders increase capacity, reduce costs and strengthen operational controls.