Our CTO discusses the importance of remote working in reaching engineers to help you scale your team and not miss out on talent

Our CEO, Christian Faes, was recently invited to give a keynote speech at NOAH19 London. It’s the third time in as many years that Christian’s spoken at the annual NOAH London conference, one of the capital’s key events that brings growth company management and investors together. Christian spoke about growing the business from strong foundations…

One word you wouldn’t naturally associate with quality assurance (QA) engineering is creativity; however it’s this particular aspect of the role that makes the function so important to a business. We caught up with our Lead QA Engineer, Meenakshi Choudhary to find out why.  “Bugs are often hidden. And performing the obvious positive tests will…

When carving out a niche in the fast-paced and competitive world of FinTech, there are several approaches you can take.  Most obviously, you can focus on the low-hanging fruit; processes and services many other players will be trying to innovate and shake-up. Alternatively, you can cast your attention to the higher-hanging fruit, and we’ve always…

A great product manager delivers considerable value to an organisation and its customers. But what makes a great product manager besides a facility with databases and visualisation tools, and a penchant for caffeinated beverages and fruit smoothies?  At LendInvest, we’re fortunate to have amazing product managers with a deep understanding of what it takes to…

In our trial of Open Banking, we have seen how it can improve the speed and quality of the underwriting process and reduce the burden on brokers and clients

Automated code building and testing is transformative. It speeds up the coding process by allowing everyone to simultaneously write and deploy code, while continuously testing to ensure bugs don’t gum up the works. A problem comes, however, when your job queue is completely occupied with builds and automated tasks, preventing other important jobs from being…

No? Don’t worry, you’ve not missed a key news story; they don’t, currently, exist. A much-needed appointment? A key finding from our first survey for the Digital Finance Forum is the keen support for the idea of the government appointing a Technology Secretary – responsible for ensuring tech in the UK remains innovative and developing…

By now, you’re probably familiar with the term Agile. Though misconceptions abound, it is simply a set of principles. Nothing more. It’s not a methodology or a framework. But these principles, when used effectively, are powerful and transformative.  We know this because our Tech team has been practicing Agile for many years. Primarily they’ve combined…

Over the past few months our development team has been transforming the LendInvest site into its most dynamic, functional and fast version to date. They’ve accomplished this feat, in part, by employing Gatsby, a very flexible, secure and efficient frontend framework that’s gaining increased adoption across the internet. Gatsby is an open source frontend page…