Engineering Summer Placement
On site
London, United Kingdom
Full Time
17-04-2025
Job Specifications
Job Description
Finimize empowers retail investors by equipping them with information to make their own informed investment decisions, without any jargon, in less than 15 minutes a day. Finimize has over one million subscribers to its daily newsletter, and they’ve built a passionate global community around making investing accessible and digestible to clients.
At Aberdeen, we’re futurists, enabling our clients to be better investors. So it’s great to be working with Finimize, who share this vision of empowering investors through information.
About The Role
On a full-stack summer placement, you’ll work with a cutting-edge stack, be encouraged to take risks and broaden your skills. You’ll be working with our Engineering team as well as our founder. You’ll work directly with our VP Engineering and the rest of the team to ship features, polish our UX and help shape a fast-growing product.
Our Team
We are an enthusiastic team of entrepreneurs, engineers and creatives. Our aim is to create an environment where everyone in our team is listened to, and empowered to improve our product, processes and culture.
We encourage self-starters and look for candidates who want to grow along with the company. From a technical perspective, you should be motivated by learning new things and always striving to improve how you work. We value Engineers who are excited by building world-class digital experiences used by millions of passionate users. We place significant emphasis on keeping our codebase clean and maintainable, while moving fast, so this should be important to you.
Responsibilities
Work directly with the founding team.
Work with a strong existing team (track records everywhere, plus Engineers from Amazon Prime, Freetrade, IBM iX, start-ups etc).
Join a fast-growing company with significant financial backing. Work with an exciting tech stack (React, React Native, Relay, GraphQL, Django, Kubernetes, AWS).
Users love our product. Best-in-class reviews for a subscription app on the App/Play Store.
What Are We Looking For
Someone to be part of an ambitious team working towards shared goals
Ensuring that code you write is clean, easy to read and maintainable
A strong desire to keep learning new things!
Skills/knowledge - Modern Javascript/front-end development skills, React Worked with some backend technology (e.g. Node, Django, Ruby).
We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. Therefore, if you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire and one of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.
Our Benefits
There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.
When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits here.
Our Business
Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we do here.
We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.
If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.
About the Company
Finimize is the #1 information platform for modern investors. We empower people to become smarter investors with bitesize insights from world-class analysts. 1 million+ strong community, 250 partners. Know more
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