Description
We’re looking for a software engineer to join our team. Here are some of the things you’ll help us with:
- Building features on our web and mobile apps that engage customers and bring to life an asset that has a meaningful impact on people’s lives.
- Improving the maturity of our technical stack and infrastructure with engineering best practices.
- Collaborating with members of the product team to continually refine and improve our product in an agile process.
- Participating in code reviews and ensure high code quality standards.
- Pairing with other engineers to solve challenging technical problems.
Tech stack
- React (Next.js)
- Node.js (Lambda)
- Typescript
- GraphQL (Apollo)
- Prisma & PostgreSQL
- Cypress + Jest
- AWS
- Terraform for creating infrastructure-as-code
- Agile development practices (Kanban, pair programming, CI/CD)
We would love to hear from you if:
- You have 3+ years commercial experience working with Javascript/Typescript, particularly Node.js services and React.
- You have a good understanding of relational databases (Postgres would be ideal!)
- You relish the idea of working as part of a talented squad who are quick to help out and support each other.
- You enjoy working in an agile, collaborative process alongside people from other teams in the business.
Benefits
Penfold is committed to providing a working environment where people feel empowered to do their very best work, make a big impact, and enjoy what they do. Our benefits package includes:
🤑 Competitive salary of £50k-60k - we review salaries more than once a year to make sure you get what you deserve
🏝️ Unlimited holidays -A minimum of 33 days per year (including 8 Bank Holidays) and the option to take more!
🏥 Medical insurance (country dependent) - through Vitality you get access to Private GPs, Physio, Counselling services and great discounts and offers (think 50% off Virgin Active and PureGym memberships, free Apple Watches)
🌍 Remote working - we have an awesome office you can use anytime but we are a remote-first company. You can work from anywhere in Europe. We trust you to get your work done in whatever environment suits you!
🖥️ Best-in-class equipment - MacBook and any WFH equipment you need
📚 Learning & Professional Development – we conduct regular 360 feedback and focus on role progression that suits each individual. We support everyone with courses, events and coaching to help everyone reach their goals
🥳 We will pay for your travel expenses for you to come to the UK, for company-wide meetings and socials at least every 6 months
🤝 Hired through our talent partner Deel if you are outside of the UK, your taxes are sorted so you don't need to worry
About Penfold
Description
Size: ~50 employees
Funding Stage: Series A
Our mission
Helping everyone save enough to be comfortable in later life
The problem
Pensions are a huge societal problem with two route causes:
- People don’t understand pensions
- People hate dealing with pensions
So 79% of people don’t save enough for retirement, according to the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association.
We believe that the pensions industry is broken. Traditional providers, with their outdated products and poor customer service, have put people off saving. The world of work is rapidly changing and the pensions industry is falling further and further behind.
The result is we’re living through a silent savings crisis. We started Penfold to address this crisis and get more people saving more for their future by making pension saving easy, accessible and engaging.
Our vision
How we help everyone adopt healthy saving habits
We’ve done away with the legacy systems and processes that old-school providers are built on, starting from scratch with our purpose-built pension platform which:
- Brings clarity and confidence about pensions
- Creates a sense of security about savers’ financial future
- Increases visibility of savings and investments
- Gives a sense of ownership and control over money
- Helps savers’ understand the when, why and how of pensions
- Offers a seamless and low friction experience
- Has fantastic customer service when you need it
Our story
We started as the pension for the self-employed in 2019. Up to 80% of self-employed people weren’t saving into a pension. We set out to solve that by building a flexible and straightforward pension that got self-employed saving.
- Expansion: We expanded our pension to all individual savers in early 2021. Our pension can help everyone contribute, transfer and engage with their pension savings. We started focusing on limited company directors and those in full-time work as well.
- Welcoming workplace: We launched our workplace pension in Autumn 2021. Pensions are one of the most expensive benefits companies offer. They don’t work for employers or employees. We started offering the future of workplace pensions and have been listed by The Pensions Regulator.
- The future is bright: We’ve got over 75,000 users and thousands of business clients. And we’ve still got so much further to go to make sure everyone is saving enough for a great retirement.
Our values
- Delight our customers
- Be a great place to work
- Challenge directly with empathy
- Work from first principles
- Move fast
- Be accountable
Backed by the best
We’re backed and supported by some of the most experienced fintech investors and entrepreneurs in Europe. Our investors include venture capital firms Plug & Play Ventures and Force Over Mass Capital, as well as early backers in some of technology’s biggest names like Spotify, Dropbox, Adyen and Funding Circle.
In May 2021 and July 2022, we were thrilled to offer our customers a chance to invest in the business too via our crowdfunding campaigns, reaching our targets in less than 24 hours.
Our awards
- Best Pension Platform, YourMoney.com 2022&2023 Awards
- Best Private Pension, Good Money Guide 2022 Awards
- Excellent Rating, Trustpilot Pension Category 2020-2023