Shawbrook Tech Stack
Specialist bank for real estate, SMEs, and consumer lending via digital platforms
Shawbrook is a UK-based specialist lender with £10.5bn in loans and £10.9bn in deposits across real estate, SME, and consumer segments. The tech stack reveals a mobile-first architecture (React Native, Expo, iOS, Android) paired with a backend engineering approach (.NET, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Prisma on GCP), suggesting they're modernizing core banking systems while expanding self-service customer channels. The hiring mix is Finance and Risk-heavy (16 of 30 open roles), with active work on credit risk modeling and fraud detection—indicating both regulatory pressure and portfolio quality concerns as they scale.
Tech Stack 15 technologies
What Shawbrook Is Building
◆Challenges
- Fraud detection
- Reducing arrears losses
- Managing late arrears cases
- Complex credit application analysis
- Ensuring compliance with consumer duty
- Credit risk assessment
- Capital adequacy
- Monitoring emerging risks
- Improving customer journey
- Meeting service level targets
▲Active Projects
- Property development exit loans
- Credit risk model development
- Fraud detection model
- Impairment provisioning model
- Ai-driven qa testing for collections & recoveries
- Develop comprehensive intermediary oversight framework
- Enhance monitoring and oversight practices
- Portfolio management of clients
- Event-sourced system across core financial domains
- Product and platform layers for unsecured sme lending
Hiring Activity
Department
Seniority
Notable leadership hires: Relationship Director, Assistant Relationship Director
