Engineering

At Nutmeg, we know that adopting the latest technologies can help us develop and deliver a faster, higher-quality app experience for our clients. When updating the Nutmeg iOS app, we consistently look for ways to create solutions in house, using Apple’s latest APIs, removing our reliance on third parties, and helping us deliver more robust and scalable solutions.

Our goal at Nutmeg is to provide a powerful and yet straightforward investment experience for all our clients. This means that we constantly evaluate what we offer clients with a view to making improvements. Our approach to constantly look at ways of enhancing the key features and services we offer has led us to review and reinvent the client dashboard. Here, we will look at the design process we followed to launch what we believe is a more powerful, intuitive and, most importantly, valuable tool for our clients.

At Nutmeg, we put transparency at the heart of what we do. That’s why we’re pleased to be able to bring you our most detailed breakdown of where your money is invested, right there in your pocket.

At Nutmeg, we know that being able to keep up to date with your investments wherever you are is incredibly important to our customers. It’s one of the reasons we have a dedicated team of developers working on our iOS and Android apps, looking for ways to improve and develop them. We’re very proud of how we’ve rewritten the native iOS app to reach a near perfect average crash-free user rate – here’s more on how we’ve done it.

At Nutmeg we use a headless content management system to cut down on development time whenever we build or publish content. So for those of you interested in tech and coding, let’s take a brief look at the mechanics behind it all.

When looking for a new role, wouldn’t it be great to get a true understanding of what you’d be doing daily, the architecture and technologies used and the process of development from beginning to end? The only time you get to ask questions is during the recruitment process and time is limited. In this article, I’ll outline what it’s like to work on the front-end team.

Nutmeg recently hosted an internal Ideation Day to generate ideas to help solve customer problems. The winning idea, voted on by fellow Nutmeggers, was built the following week by the mobile team.

Cybercrime is estimated to cost businesses trillions of dollars a year¹. For companies such as Nutmeg, good cybersecurity to protect our customers from criminals is essential. So, what do we do to make sure your money and data is safe?

Briony is a senior engineer and sits in the mobile team. This week we asked her for some Nutmeg insights and career advice…

We live in an increasingly automated world. A study last year claimed that by 2020, at least one in five UK jobs will be affected by automation.So it might seem a little risky to take on the task of automating your own job, even if the rewards are tempting.

We’ve just launched a new feature on the Nutmeg app. You can now take a detailed look at your projection chart to see how your investments are expected to fare over the timeframe you’ve chosen, and even see the difference that paying more money in could make to your expected value in real time.

Watch our walk-through video or read our step-by-step process to see how we’re making costs more transparent than ever.