Fullstack Job: Frontend Engineer

Our mission

Definitely not a sweet shop.

We're the tech company making insurance more accessible and more affordable for as many people as possible.

We’re proud of our journey so far. We’ve helped hundreds of thousands of customers get fairer cover, all while polishing a 4.6 star Trustpilot score. But we’re just getting started.

Over the next 2 years, we’re planning to help even more people by launching products and services across different sectors and countries

If you're looking for a challenge, our next chapter is set to be an exciting one

How we work

We've created a culture of trust which allows us to work autonomously without fear of failure, to challenge decisions, and be heard. It empowers us to drive our own careers and to move at unparalleled speed. And because we're treading new ground, we're all mastering new skills along the way.

Explore our Culture Handbook to find out more about life at Marshmallow, or read our blog!

Engineering at Marshmallow

Our engineers are at the heart of the solutions. They work on product builds from start to finish, solving lots of challenges to help us build fast and scale up! Our engineers cover a range of skills across frontend, backend, fullstack, iOS and android, and work alongside designers, data scientists, researchers and product managers within our product teams.

Our product teams include: the new Home team, the Growth team, the Efficiency team, and the Claims team (to name a few!) Each team sets its own roadmap, and actively pushes our codebase forward.

Learn more about our teams and how our engineers work here!

What you'll be doing

• You’ll be helping us grow our fledgling component library, S’mores, and ensure consistency and reusability across our Products.

• You’ll build upon our current suite of unit tests to improve the reliability of our frontend.

• You will be tracking bugs in Sentry and triaging which need fixing right away.

• You’ll be diving deep into setting up funnel analytics with Segment, GTM and working with Product Managers to learn more about our customers.

• You’ll be joining a Frontend Guild of 6 fantastic engineers and helping shape the frontend at Marshmallow.

Requirements

Who you are

• You enjoy simplifying complex problems and solutions

• You are able to prioritise key tasks for speed and successful delivery

• You enjoy working in a high growth/ scaling environment

• You enjoy mentoring and supporting more junior members of the team

• You’ve got an eye for design and strong attention to detail. You can spot UX issues that would trip up a customer a mile away

What we're looking for from you

• 2+ years of experience working as a Frontend Developer;

• Familiarity with TypeScript (but strong working knowledge of JavaScript will be considered)

• You have some exposure with Jest to design and write unit tests and end-to-end tests

• An understanding Sentry to track bugs

• Commercial experience with React

• Experience working with Redux, Redux Hooks, and any modern state management library.

• A bonus if you have worked in a start-up and understand the need to move fast and understand your customers needs

• Experience of using CSS-in-JS (we use Styled Components) and implementing responsive design

• Exposure to; NPM, CRA, Webpack, and ESLint (would be a nice to have)

Perks of the job

• Flexi-office working – Spend at least 2 days a week with your team in our new collaborative London office. The rest is up to you!

• Flexible benefits budget - £50 per month to spend wherever you like on a Ben Mastercard

• Learning and development – Personal budgets for books and training courses to help you grow in your role. Plus 2 days a year - on us! - to further your skillset

• Mental wellbeing support – Access therapy and mental health sessions through Oliva

• Equity – Get options in Marshmallow as part of your offer, and have a real stake in the company’s success

• Private health care - Enjoy all the benefits Vitality has to offer, including reduced gym memberships and discounts on smartwatches

• Medical cash plan - To help you with the costs of dental, optical and physio (plus more!)

• Tech scheme - Get the latest tech for less

Plus all the rest; 33 days holiday (including bank holidays), pension, cycle to work scheme, monthly team socials and company-wide socials every month!

Our process

We break it up into 4 stages:

• Initial call with our Tech Talent Acquisition team (45 mins)

• A skill-based interview where you will discuss your previous experience with one of our Engineering Managers (45 mins)

• A take-home assessment (several days at your discretion) and follow-up technical interview with one of our Tech Leads + one other Engineer (1 hour)

• A culture interview with one of our dedicated Bar Raisers (Appointed Advocates of our Culture) to check that your ways of working aligns with our processes, mission and values (1 hour)

• We’ll let you know if you’re invited to an interview or not. But, as a small team with a lot of applications to consider, we can’t give individual feedback on each application

Background Checks

To meet our regulatory obligations as an FCA-authorised financial services company, we need to do some background checks on all new hires. That means carrying out a DBS check and making sure you don't have any live criminal proceedings. Feel free to ask our Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions about this!

Everyone belongs at Marshmallow

At Marshmallow, we want to hire people from all walks of life with the passion and skills needed to help us achieve our company mission. To do that, we're committed to hiring without judgement, prejudice or bias.

We encourage everyone to apply for our open roles. Gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or background does not affect how we process job applications.

We're working hard to build an inclusive culture that empowers our people to do their best work, have fun and feel that they belong.