It was our great pleasure to host the August LondonCSS meetup – an educational and highly enjoyable evening of presentations and lively discussion, with plenty of food and drink to fuel debate. LondonCSS meetups The meetup, originally started by Stu Robson and continued by Igor Czerwinski, has attracted some of the capital’s most respected developers…
Here at LendInvest, the way our business model works means we require a deep understanding of our loan book in real time; one that can be accessed by a multitude of teams across the business. This unique business model has driven our rapid growth over the past ten years, however this model also presents three…
Good data is meaningless unless those able to make the best use of it can easily access it. Finding an easy way for non-engineering teams across the business to retrieve the data they need on their own is essential to streamlining internal processes. “The Fintech space is evolving rapidly. It’s packed with competitors all trying…
Three people enter a room: one product manager, one developer and one QA. Each represents three main perspectives on the product — that of the business, the development team and testing. Knowing where to start when building a new feature can be daunting. LendInvest’s Product Manager, Charles Fournier breaks down the ‘Three Amigos’ approach. The…
Throughout our careers we are encouraged to work with others, seek feedback and share our ideas. But how much time is spent on improving how we actually work together? Our Product Designer, Alice Williams, and Front-End Engineer, Marek Lenik recently hosted a Design Lab Meet up at LendInvest HQ where they discussed collaboration as a…
Processing and delivering loans at speed takes a responsive, dynamic infrastructure; especially for a business that’s expanding as rapidly as we are at LendInvest. Microservices give us the ability to scale with amazing efficiency: our product team break down why we take this approach to software development. What are microservices? LendInvest’s marketplace operates on microservice…
LendInvest’s founders, Christian Faes and Ian Thomas, have launched a new industry organisation for FinTech founders, called the Digital Finance Forum. The Forum’s aim is to create a wide network of people that have a vested interest in FinTech, and to provide a forum for better collaboration amongst entrepreneurs, startups, government, regulators and across the…
Like any fast-moving fintech, we’re only as good as our people, which is why here at LendInvest our team is constantly expanding. In our latest video series, we’re opening up the doors to our in-house specialists and first up we’re profiling our Engineering & Product team. Meet Fatme, Naomi, Evangelos and Tunde – just a…
On November 6th 2018, we won the Digital Innovation award at The Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 awards ceremony. The Tech Track 100 league table ranks Britain’s top 100 private tech (TMT) companies with the fastest-growing sales over the last three years. It is compiled by Fast Track and published in The Sunday Times…
In honour of London FinTech week we have decided to speak to a few of our talented LendInvest tech team and find out what inspired them to get into this fast-moving industry. Meet Gaurav, our Automation Lead in the Engineering team! How long have you been in the industry? I’ve worked in the industry for…