We build financial products that accelerate the economic freedom for people who move across borders. We started with car insurance — insuring over a million drivers — and we’re scaling beyond. Tens of millions of people move countries each year, facing overlooked financial challenges. Our future is in building financial products around their needs to positively impact their lives.
How we workWe’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 three tribes; Acquisition, Retention & Claims. 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 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 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.
The Mobile Team you'd be joining
Our Mobile Team's mission is to build the best app in the business. That means creating a truly customer-first experience that makes the difficult (but essential) things easy, quick and intuitive.
You’ll work directly with our users to get a full picture of our customers and the problems we can solve for them. And you’ll do that as part of a cross-functional team, working alongside product teams across tribes to build a platform that’s essential to delivering an inclusive, easy-to-use, and empathetic Marshmallow experience.
What you'll be doing
Lead engineers in a product team enabling a smooth app experience for tens of thousands of policies, ensuring that we provide customers with affordable, instant, and inclusive insurance
Manage and execute ambiguous technical solutions with appropriate sense of urgency to deliver impact to the business
Create and promote efficiency and speed within the team by improving existing solutions and developing new ones
Partner with stakeholders to understand requirements, constructively challenge assumptions, suggest alternatives, and deliver functionality iteratively.
Mentor engineers from Junior to Senior levels of experience, supporting their development through feedback and sharing opportunities
Work closely with the EM to champion and roadmap technical debt investment
Ensure alignment between iOS and Android platforms by overseeing project delivery, identifying cross-platform blockers early, and facilitating consistent implementation across both platforms.
What we're looking for from you
8+ years of experience in iOS development
2+ years of experience as a Technical Lead
Strong expertise in Swift, with hands-on experience in app development using either UIKit or SwiftUI, with a preference for SwiftUI
Skilled in working closely with various stakeholders including Product, Design, and fellow engineers to align objectives and drive successful outcomes.
Strong experience with leading, developing and delivering complex projects
Worked in a high growth start-up environment or product focused environment.
Experience mentoring and guiding more engineers with a range of experience
Our Tech Stack
SwiftUI for new features (approx. 90% of the app)
Modular architecture using local Swift packages
Automated testing: unit tests, snapshot tests, and UI tests
Bitrise for continuous integration
Fastlane for TestFlight and App Store deployments
SwiftLint, SwiftFormat, and Danger for automated code styling and checks
We use Tuist to help us manage our modular architecture and speed up our builds.
Perks of the job
Hybrid working - Spend 3 days with your team in our collaborative London office. The rest is up to you!
Competitive bonus scheme - designed to reward and recognise high-performance
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
Sabbatical Leave - Get a 4-week fully paid sabbatical after being with us for 4 years
Work From Anywhere - 4 weeks of work from anywhere to use, with no need to come to the office ✈
Mental wellbeing support – Access therapy and mental health sessions through Oliva
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
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, 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 Tech Talent Acquisition team via Zoom (30-45 mins)
A take-home assessment (several days at your discretion) which will be reviewed by our Engineers.
Follow up technical interview with our Engineers to walk us through your take-home task and questions around your past experience and projects via Zoom (90 mins)
A culture & past experience interview with one of our Engineering Managers 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.
Everyone belongs at MarshmallowAt 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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