Contract React Native Engineer (Outside IR35)

Who are Bippit? What is our mission? 🚀

Bippit is expert financial guidance for every employee, no matter their situation, background, or bank balance.

The truth is, we all have financial stress. Whether it’s dealing with debt, navigating life events, or maximising our wealth over time… but talking about financial matters can be difficult.

That’s why we’re on a mission to normalise the conversation around money, and measurably improve the financial wellbeing of millions of households, through professional support that’s free at the point of use, for everyone, for the very first time.

It’s a mission that inspires our team every day, and helps us support people at all stages of their career.

What you'll be doing 💼

Working alongside our Senior Frontend Product Engineer, you’ll spend the majority of your time coding, but you’ll also have responsibilities outside of coding, for example - working with our Product Team to refine the Roadmap & digging into usage data. You’ll be helping your team test products, build prototypes, and brainstorm experiments to make our product better.

All of this means we'll be able to ship our products and features faster, and to a higher quality, to really impact our users' experience. We want people who aren't afraid to take ownership of building great products, and are empowered to make the best changes that need to be made.

What you’ll actually be doing:

• Working on our cross-platform app, which includes web, Android and iOS on one code base
• Working on internal and external portals
• Helping to migrate legacy code to a new system

How we build/how we work:

If you’ve worked in a startup environment before, you’ll most likely have worked in similar ways to us. We’re a small and highly flexible team, where our Product and Engineering departments work very closely together, which helps us make effective & fast decisions about the product.

Once an idea has been formed, Product validates it with our users, we spec things out at a high level with stakeholders, Prod/Eng works together on the spec (along with Design & QA), and responsibility sits with the Engineering team for building and deploying.

Our Tech Stack

• The Bippit app: React Native (Android, iOS, and Web, using Expo + Next.js w/ Nativewind)
• Our external portal: Fullstack React w/ Next.js + Tailwind
• Our legacy internal portals: Laravel + Svelte
• Documentation and testing frameworks (OpenAPI, Storybook, Testing Library)
• APIs - Firebase Auth, OpenAPI, Open Banking
• CI/CD (CircleCI, EAS)

What we’re looking for:

• A UK-based contract React Native engineer
• Experience working on product-focused applications
• Strong product sense - you can build good UI and UX that converts well without too much help, ability to input in design / product sessions
• Strong experience with modern fullstack React - Frameworks like Next.js, Remix, etc
• Hybrid app experience - primarily React Native, but would consider candidates with Android, iOS, or other Hybrid framework experience
• Experience turning digital designs into front end code (e.g. using Figma, Sketch, etc)
• High ownership and autonomy - we want you to feel comfortable and confident in your decision making

It’s a bonus if you have:

• Experience or knowledge of the Firebase ecosystem of APIs - Firebase Auth, Analytics, etc
• Some backend knowledge, or interest in learning (Rust, Node.js)
• Previous product roles or evidence of working in a product engineering capacity
• Fintech experience
• Data visualisation

Diversity, Equality and Culture at Bippit…

At Bippit, we embrace a culture that acknowledges and values the strength derived from our differences. Our team members are selected not to replicate who we already have, but to enhance and diversify our culture. In line with this ethos, we commit to the following core principles:

• Diversity and Differences: We actively encourage and celebrate diversity and differences within our team and respect the unique perspectives and experiences that each individual brings.
• Respectful Communication: We foster an environment of open communication, where every team member's voice is heard, and we listen to and respect everyone's needs. We strive to create a sense of belonging for all employees.
• Openness and Inclusivity: By default, we prioritise openness, honesty, transparency, and authenticity. We believe that an inclusive environment contributes to the strength and success of our Bippit.