Data Scientist, iwoca
CLTV
£70-90k
+ An employee equity incentive scheme
Online loans for small businesses
Job no longer available
Online loans for small businesses
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
£70-90k
+ An employee equity incentive scheme
201-500 employees
Company mission
To fund one million small businesses.
Role
Who you are
- Ability to effectively communicate with stakeholders and downstream users of the model, and to maintain up-to-date and reliable documentation
- Strong problem-solving skills in probability and statistics
- Experience developing code collaboratively and implementing solutions in a production environment
- Proficiency with data manipulation and modelling tools — e.g., pandas, statsmodels, R
- Experience with scientific computing and tooling — e.g., NumPy, SciPy, Matlab, etc
- Self-driven with the capability to efficiently manage projects end-to-end
- Experience working on research projects, particularly those involving mathematical, statistical, or analytical modelling
Desirable
- Experience building machine learning models from scratch (e.g., built your own optimiser)
- Excellent knowledge of stochastic processes and related mathematical techniques
- Experience with Python. (Note: we mostly work in Python.)
- Knowledge of financial concepts (e.g. calculations with deterministic cash flows)
What the job involves
- You can expect working closely with stakeholders, delivering solutions iteratively to incrementally add value, collecting and addressing feedback, and also providing support to the team and wider business
- Your role as a Data Scientist in the CLTV team will involve growing and demonstrating your skills in several key areas,
- Explore and integrate innovative modelling methods into our training pipeline to enhance the predictive power and flexibility of our model
- Take responsibility for the full lifecycle of the model, including training, validation, deployment, and performance monitoring
- Clearly communicate and explain any model changes to the business, ensuring transparency and fostering trust in the model's predictions
- Collaborate with Data Scientists and Analysts in other teams to ensure that our model predictions are appropriately utilised and interdependencies are accounted for
- Utilise our modelling and analytics tools (and introduce new ones where appropriate) to uncover insights, such as customer behaviour patterns or the efficacy of new modelling techniques
- Effectively communicate these insights with the broader business to drive value by changing the way iwoca operates
- Independently develop data science solutions to address iwoca's business challenges, with increasing responsibility in solution design
- Maintain strong communications with stakeholders throughout your work to ensure that your solutions are pragmatically solving the business problem at hand and to get technical feedback for personal growth
Salary benchmarks
Our take
UK SMEs are the backbone of a complex economy that is constantly changing, so the need for fast and responsive access to finance is becoming more and more important to ensure their success and growth. iwoca allows SMEs access to business loans in less than a minute, with its API and business marketplace partnerships.
With offerings like iwoca's, gone are the days where waiting up to eight weeks for a loan decision was viable. Its simplified business loans of £1,000 - £500,000 come with no fees attached, and applying online takes no more than five minutes. The ready availability of iwoca loans gives business owners a level of certainty, so that they can make instant decisions to help their business grow.
iwoca has made a number of partnerships with other players in the business finance space, including an impressive industry-first invoice checkout integration with QuickBooks. Funding raised by the company, which is now operating at net profitability, will enable it to meet a recent surge in demand for corporate loans and offer more to larger SMB businesses. And the company has made several billion in funding available to over 100,000 businesses since launching, positioning itself as a leading European fintech.
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Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"Great opportunities available to learn from both individuals through shadowing, and teams through presentations and even secondment opportunities -..."
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Aug 2019
$13.7m
GRANT
Feb 2019
$27.3m
SERIES D
Total funding: $99m
Company benefits
- Work where you work best: Twice a year we rent houses in places like Sicily and the French Alps where each team can work together for a week poolside. We champion flexible working in all our teams
- Invest in iwoca: We want people to be invested in iwoca's success so after six months you'll be awarded share options
- Keep yourself healthy: We offer comprehensive health insurance and cash plans. You'll also get gym discounts and we host yoga classes in the office every week
- Start (and end) your day right: Each floor of iwoca HQ has a fully stocked fridge for breakfast and every Friday we unwind with beers and wine
- Life-work balance: We know your life outside of work comes first. We offer enhanced maternity and paternity leave for new parents plus a nursery benefit. We also have unlimited unpaid leave
- Learning and development: Whether you want to learn to code, experiment with motion design, or beat cognitive biases, you'll have time and budget to invest in your professional development
Company values
- Motivated: Going to work shouldn't feel like a slog, so we want everyone in the team to personally care about what they're working on. We stay motivated by celebrating our wins, learning from our mistakes, and always looking for new gaps to step into
- Smart: At iwoca being smart isn't about what you know, it's about how you think. Smart thinking means looking at each problem by asking ‘why’ first, then figuring out ‘how’
- Humble: We know all ideas are flawed, all code has bugs, and everyone makes mistakes - it’s how we learn. For us, being humble means you question yourself first, rather than your team
- Growth Mindset: We think there's always a better way to solve a problem. So we never let ourselves get comfortable with being good enough
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Christoph Rieche
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously spent 7 years at Goldman Sachs as a Vice President before co-founding iwoca in 2011.
Joost Versteeg
(CMO)Joost initially joined iwoca in 2017 as an Intern. Since then, they have held a number of roles, from Growth Analyst to Head of Commercial Strategy and became CMO in 2024.
People progressing
Serita joined as a Customer Onboarder, before moving into the Broker Team. Most recently they have been promoted to Partnership Manager.
Leo joined in 2018 as a Client Onboarder. Since then, they have worked in a number of roles and now serve as the Product Manager.
Jenny originally joined the Client Onboarding team and now leads the Customer Success department for the German business.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at iwoca
- We work hard to make iwoca a place where everyone feels welcome, where you can confidently be yourself. We understand that diversity isn't an optional add-on, it's the core ingredient of what makes us great.
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