Frontend Engineer

About Marshmallow

We started Marshmallow when we found out how unfair insurance prices are for people who move to the UK. All because the industry hasn’t given this huge cohort of people a second’s thought, and isn’t set up to price them properly.

We saw an opportunity to do things differently, so we made it our mission to back the ones who step outside the norm. Since we started, we’ve helped 100,000s of people get a fairer deal on their car insurance. Using technology, we serve people that are often overlooked by financial services companies, solving important problems for people who need it most.

We know there are millions of marginalised customers out there. And we know that they face unique problems that most companies aren’t even aware of. We believe that our future is helping these people by learning about their experiences, and building our company around their needs. And there are strong signs that there’s a need for a company like us. Earlier this year we hit profitability, which is a huge milestone, but the most exciting thing is that we’re only just getting started.

How We Work

We’re really proud of the culture we’ve created. We push for progress every day, because we know that we’ll only hit big milestones by taking lots of smaller steps. We’re always open to helping our team mates, sharing our ideas, experience and knowledge to solve problems together. We take risks, think creatively and experiment relentlessly to meet our customer’s needs, and never pass blame when things go wrong. We encourage people at all levels to take ownership of their work, and to be bold in challenging how we do things. Everyone has a voice and the opportunity to make an impact.

And autonomy and ownership are only possible with clear direction. That’s why we collaborate to do in-depth planning twice a year, and make sure we leave with clear goals and objectives that flow from top to bottom. To make sure we’re as aligned as possible across functions, most of our work rolls up into four tribes; Acquisition, Retention, Claims and Pricing, Underwriting & Fraud. Each tribe has multiple teams embedded in it, working cross-functionally to do great work.

We’re so excited for all of the challenges up ahead, and we need more people to help us tackle them! If life at Marshmallow sounds like it could be for you, explore our culture handbook or read our blog to find out more.

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.

About The Growth Team You’ll Be Joining

The Growth team’s mission is to bring Marshmallow motor insurance to as wide an audience as possible. We do this by ensuring we have cover that meets the needs - both mainstream and niche - of a huge range of UK drivers, and by ensuring the value of Marshmallow’s offering is clearly communicated to them. In doing so, we contribute to growing Marshmallow’s customer-base, and growing our top line and profitability.

You'll be at the heart of Marshmallow's growth efforts, collaborating closely with Product, Data, and our users to deeply understand customer needs, solve challenges across our products, and deliver an inclusive, seamless, and impactful experience that drives business growth!

What You'll Be Doing

• You’ll be helping us grow our fledgling component library, S’mores, and ensure consistency and reusability across our website, and soon-to-be native mobile apps.
• You’ll build upon our current suite of unit tests and end-to-end tests to improve the reliability of our frontend.
• You will apply user agent security technologies like XSS and Feature policies across all our properties.
• You will be tracking bugs in DataDog and 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 filled with our fantastic engineers, helping shape the frontend at Marshmallow.
  
  

Requirements

Who you are

• You are a self-starter who likes to take ownership
• You understand and champion for clear communication channels
• You have a can do attitude and take initiative
• You enjoy simplifying complex problems and solutions
• You enjoy working as part of a team and owning the work you do
• You are able to prioritise key tasks for speed and successful delivery
• You understand and are an advocate the business impact of your work whether that is directly or indirectly
• You have an eye for detail but also are a generalist who loves creating strategies
• 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

• 3+ years of experience working as a Frontend Developer;
• Commercial experience with React
• Familiarity with Redux or any modern state management library.
• Familiarity with Typescript
• Basic knowledge of Jest or Cypress to design and write unit tests and end-to-end tests
• An understanding of how to track bugs
• A bonus if you have worked in a start-up and understand the need to move fast and understand your customers needs
  
  

Our team of frontend engineers at Marshmallow use TypeScript when working with React components, however we recognise that not everyone is familiar with TypeScript. To help new engineers get up to speed we’ll set them up with a mentor from day one. Your mentor will organise your technical onboarding to your new team, introduce you to the Frontend Guild, and support you in getting up to speed with TypeScript, including: instruction on how to get started, pair programming, and reviewing and giving feedback on pull requests. Within your first four months we’ll help you become comfortable writing TypeScript.

Benefits

Perks of the job

• Flexible working :Spend [insert how many days] a [insert week/fortnight/month] with your team in our new collaborative London office, and own your own working hours. The rest is up to you
• If this arrangement doesn’t work, don’t let it hold you back. We’re always open to making reasonable adjustments if this is a barrier to you in any way. Let us know and we’ll talk about our options. 🏡
• Flexible benefits budget - £50 per month to spend on a Ben Mastercard meaning you get your own benefits budget to spend on things you want. Whether that’s subscriptions, night classes (puppy yoga, anyone?), the big shop or a forest of houseplants. Pretty much anything goes. 💰
• 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 3 Stages

• Initial call with someone from our Tech Talent Acquisition Team (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 to check that your work style fits our processes 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

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.

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