About LifeCheq

Who we are

LifeCheq is a service that helps you organise your finances to line up with your life goals. This starts with a clear plan that includes what investments you should make, what you can afford to spend on assets (such as property) and important expenses (such as education), and what insurance it makes sense for you to have at this stage of life.
Then, we help you put that plan into action. We’ll fill in forms, chase up product providers, check that you aren’t being given a bum deal on your insurance and keep track of what you should be doing. We’ll also make sure that, as things change, we update our recommendations so you don’t need to worry and can get on with living your life.

Check out a bit more at http://lifecheq.co.za

The systems we’re building

Our service is only made possible by applying the latest technology to the problem of how people plan and manage their financial lives.

We pick and integrate the best existing services for parts of the business which are done well by others and building up and deploy our own IP for the specific areas where it matters most.

Our systems play a central role right from when a potential client first signs up. Meetings with our consultants are scheduled, financial data is collected and a client’s goals are captured. Our advice team use our tools to model and project a client’s life into the future, adjusting the advised actions to best achieve the client's goals and presenting all this back to them in a way that is understandable and digestible.

The client then uses our app to make decisions and kick off tasks for our processing team that pulls the required information together in order to complete financial product applications. All along the way, relevant parties such as consultants, product providers and the clients themselves are kept up to date with progress.

Our system has frontends written in Clojurescript using reagent/re-frame with our backend spread across firebase and in-house web services written in Clojure and hosted on Heroku. We make use of third party services such as mailgun, sentry, logentries and auth0 to add their packaged functionality.

Our hiring process

Once we've been in contact and both think this is something that might work, you'll have 3 meetings with 3 of the founders. One general interview to talk about how well we'll all work together, one technical interview to talk about how well what you're doing matches your skills and then a third meeting to pick up questions, talk about more specifics of the role and offer and anything else that may come up. If we think things will work we'll make you an offer after the third meeting.