Technical Lead, iwoca
New Applications Team
£100-140k
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1-3 days a week in office
Online loans for small businesses
Be an early applicant
Online loans for small businesses
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
£100-140k
+ Share options
1-3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To give small business owners a great experience while getting the finance they need.
Role
Who you are
- Expertise in systems architecture, including designing and managing complex domain models.
- Advanced proficiency in software development using an object-oriented language
- Business-orientation: you can collaborate with stakeholders to translate complex challenges into scalable solutions. You have owned technical systems that deliver business outcomes in fast-paced environments
- Demonstrable leadership skills: you have mentored juniors and inspired teams to deliver cross-functional projects. You can balance hands-on coding with strategic planning
- Experience building and shaping large systems in complex business domains
Desirable
- Experience with Python, Django or PostgreSQL
- Familiarity with data analytics and Machine Learning processes
- An understanding of complex data systems, including event-sourced data models
- A strong numerical or technical background, ideally with a degree in maths, physics, computer science, engineering, or a related field
- Front-end development experience
What the job involves
- Lead the evolution of our decision-making systems and associated architecture
- You'll build and improve critical systems, shape iwoca’s technical vision, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative, data-driven solutions
- The New Applications team is the centre of our customer acquisition process
- They optimise the customer journey, from the moment a potential customer lands on our website through their completed credit assessment
- By identifying and implementing the most efficient ways to convert prospects into successful applicants, the team maximises the number of businesses that get our best possible offers
- Optimise the customer journey: Make it easy for potential customers to go from just ‘brand aware’ to enthusiastic applicants
- Strategise customer assessments: Identify how and when we run credit checks to maximise conversion rates
- Promote data efficiency: Continually improve how iwoca collects information from both applicants and third-party sources, minimising how long customers wait for funds
- You’ll help iwoca to realise a long-term vision of a dynamic, automated process that harmonises different input data, for different customers, wanting different products
- You’ll lead the development of a new system to dynamically route new applications to the most appropriate credit-assessment process
- The system will be fundamental to iwoca’s future success and will extend the current system, which is static and inflexible
- Re-architect the team’s code to meet an ambitious set of ever-changing challenges, though you’ll need to collaborate with principal engineers in other teams to design and deliver a coherent system as the system evolves to meet our long-term goals
- Conceive projects for the team to continuously improve aspects of various systems and processes
- Own integrations with third-party data providers
- Lead the evolution of our system architecture to optimise customer journeys and enhance decision-making processes
- Build strong stakeholder relationships, mentor junior developers, and foster a culture of learning and innovation. The systems that relate to new applications are fundamental to iwoca’s success
- Share a clear technical vision that aligns with long-term goals while working closely with tech, product, and analytics teams
- Enjoy open communication and access to leadership without layers of bureaucracy
- Embrace the energy and adaptability of a startup, where decisions are made quickly, and every day brings new opportunities and challenges
- Collaborate with teams that use shared systems and infrastructure, with support from common resources like a DevOps team
Salary benchmarks
Our take
UK SME's 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. 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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
35% female employees
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
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
$12.6m
GRANT
Feb 2019
$25.1m
SERIES D
Total funding: $91.8m
Company benefits
- Flexible working across all teams.
- Twice a year we rent houses in places like Sicily and the French Alps where each team can work together for a week poolside.
- Employee share options
- Comprehensive health insurance and cash plans.
- Counselling and private therapy benefits
- Fully stocked fridges for breakfast and snacks throughout your day.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave for new parents plus a nursery benefit.
- Unlimited unpaid leave.
- The time and budget to invest in your professional development.
- Volunteering Days
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
(CEO)James Dear
(Head of Systems & Numbers)People progressing
Joined as a Customer Onboarder, moved into the Broker Team and has most recently been promoted to Partnerships Manager.
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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