Staff Software Engineer (Full Stack: TypeScript, React, Node.js)
Summary
Build and lead the full-stack TypeScript/React/Node.js systems that power UK financial product comparisons, integrating partner APIs and driving reporting, while setting engineering standards and mentoring peers.
Hybrid: 2 days per week in our Tower Bridge office (Wednesdays & Thursdays)
exists to help consumers make more informed financial decisions. Our free, online comparison service allows consumers to compare financial products, from credit cards to savings accounts, loans to travel money. We want our users to feel reassured that we're on their side when it comes to their finances.
We’re part of RVU, a group of online brands that include: Confused, Uswitch, Tempcover, and Mojo Mortgages.
We are known as the Financial Services team for Uswitch, Confused and money.co.uk, and our goal is to be the UK’s favourite way to choose the best financial products for big life events - from credit cards to use while travelling, to savings accounts to help move you closer to a dream purchase.
exists to help consumers make more informed financial decisions. Our free, online comparison service allows consumers to compare financial products, from credit cards to savings accounts, loans to travel money. We want our users to feel reassured that we're on their side when it comes to their finances.
We’re part of RVU, a group of online brands that include: Confused, Uswitch, Tempcover, and Mojo Mortgages.
We are known as the Financial Services team for Uswitch, Confused and money.co.uk, and our goal is to be the UK’s favourite way to choose the best financial products for big life events - from credit cards to use while travelling, to savings accounts to help move you closer to a dream purchase.
We build the web apps, back office systems and tooling that power financial product comparison, integrate with our partners' APIs, track sales, optimise marketing and drive reporting. We are currently growing our offering to small and medium businesses.
Our stack is TypeScript, React and Node.js (Bun where it fits), running on Kubernetes in AWS.
Our stack is TypeScript, React and Node.js (Bun where it fits), running on Kubernetes in AWS.
As a Staff Software Engineer you will set the technical direction for Financial Services and raise the standard the team holds itself to.
You will work across the full stack (infrastructure, databases, pipelines, servers, CDNs, responsive accessible React components aligned to our design system, real-time metrics and alerting) with product managers, commercial managers, ops executives, data analysts, designers and other engineers.
Most of your day lands on the front end, but you own quality end to end.
You will work across the full stack (infrastructure, databases, pipelines, servers, CDNs, responsive accessible React components aligned to our design system, real-time metrics and alerting) with product managers, commercial managers, ops executives, data analysts, designers and other engineers.
Most of your day lands on the front end, but you own quality end to end.
You will turn commercial and customer problems into working software, and put a value on the problems worth solving first. You will make the engineers around you better, measured by what the team ships rather than what you ship alone (we do not hire lone wolves).
You will run code reviews, give and take direct feedback without ego, and keep our applications tested, secure and maintainable.
You will run code reviews, give and take direct feedback without ego, and keep our applications tested, secure and maintainable.
We already run AI inside live workflows and have several projects with AI at the core. You will find concrete uses for AI that move a metric, then help other teams adopt what actually works. We treat AI fluency as a core requirement, so expect to show, in interview, where you have used AI tooling to ship real work.
We are looking for a technical expert who raises the whole team's output. You strike the balance between rigour and urgency: you know when detail matters and when it is a valueless rabbit hole. You have built everything from MVPs to large scale production systems, and you can debug complex systems well enough that the right improvement becomes obvious. You keep up with the industry, assess new libraries, tools and approaches on evidence, and adopt the ones that pay off.
Skills required:
- Strong TypeScript, and you argue for statically typed languages on their merits
- Deep Node.js ecosystem knowledge (node, npm, yarn), including bundling and dependency management (Bun a plus)
- Proficient with AI tooling, including shipping code via CLI or editor-based LLM agents and using MCP servers
- Solid grasp of the React paradigm (one-way data binding, declarative programming, rules of hooks, common anti-patterns)
- Practical software engineering principles and complexity management (separation of concerns, design patterns, domain-driven design), and a bias towards clean, simple code
- Familiarity with container-based cloud-native applications and patterns such as REST APIs, message passing, horizontal and vertical scaling, and load balancing
- Awareness of web security concerns (SQL injection, XSS, CORS, cookies, authentication and authorisation)
Nice to have:
Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Argo Workflows, GitHub Actions, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, dbt data pipelines, Fastly, Storybook, component libraries and design systems, Bun.
You will not tick every box on this list, and we would rather you applied than talked yourself out of it. We expect you to keep learning here, and we will back you to do it.
We want to give you a great work environment, support your growth both personally and professionally, and provide benefits that make your time at RVU even more enjoyable. Here are some of the benefits you can look forward to:
- 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on RVU and personal performance)
- A hybrid working approach with 2 in-office days per week and up to 22 working days per year to “work from anywhere”
- Employer-matching pension contributions up to 7.5%
- A one-off £300 “work from home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
- Excellent maternity, paternity, shared parental, and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
- 25 days holiday (increasing with years of employment to 30 days) + 2 days “my time” per year
- Private medical cover, critical illness cover, and employee assistance programme
- A healthy learning and training budget
- Electric vehicle and cycle to work schemes
- Free in-office gym, accessible 7 days a week
- Free breakfast in the office daily
- You’ll be equipped with great technology (choice of Mac or Windows)
- Free access to the Calm and Peppy app for physical and mental health
- Regular events - from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected.