Software Engineer, Funding Xchange
£40-60k
More information about location
Transforming SME lending by accelerating and improving lending decisions
Job no longer available
Transforming SME lending by accelerating and improving lending decisions
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£40-60k
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To unlock capital for SMEs by helping banks and lenders make quicker, better and safer landing decisions
Role
Who you are
- Modern software development processes: CI/CD, TDD, Pair programming, Agile & iterative development
- A JVM programming language like Java (3+ years)
- REST, HTTP, and implementing maintainable APIs
- Relational and NoSQL databases (Postgres, MongoDB)
- Cloud infrastructure and deployment (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- An understanding of testing methodologies and which ones apply to different elements of the product
- A great collaborator who can work with colleagues with different levels of expertise
- Excellent written, diagramming, and verbal communication skills
- Assist with design solutions with the appropriate complexity for the problem space and can convey the reasoning behind these design decisions
Desirable
- Kotlin
- Frontend development experience (Typescript, React, Vue, Angular)
- Data pipelines technologies (like DBT, Airbyte)
- Queuing and PubSub technologies (Kafka, SQS, Google PubSub)
- Experience delivering SaaS products
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Software Engineer excited by the prospect of joining our mission to extend our SME funding platform and to beneficially transform the small business lending market
- This role will be a back-end focused working closely with the leads and seniors assisting the development of new features and platform capabilities for lenders and brokers
- Working on, and helping the delivery of a variety of software projects, including:
- API-first services as SaaS products
- Event-driven API services and integrations with customer systems
- OIDC authentication and ABAC authorisation in a multi-tenant SaaS platform
- Data-driven solutions for broker and lender customers
- Contribute to the prioritisation and dependencies across a project/initiative
- Form close partnerships within a cross-functional team to deliver our product vision and roadmap
- Interact with product managers, and team members to develop a deep understanding of our stakeholders’ business problems and customer needs, ensuring that what we build meets their needs
- Ensure existing and new features are sufficiently covered by unit and integration tests
- Develop a culture of intellectual curiosity, engineering excellence, continuous improvement and innovation
- This is a remote-first position based within the UK.
Application process
- 1. Apply via Otta
- 2. CV review and general interview (30 mins)
- 3. Technical interview (75 mins)
- 4. Values fit (60 mins)
- 5. Introduction to leadership (60 minutes)
- 6. Offer!
Our take
Accessing funding is vital for the growth of businesses of any size, but finding the right lender can be a time-consuming process. Access to lenders is often limited and the funding options that they provide follow a "one size fits all" approach, leading available options to be unaffordable and inaccessible to SMEs.
The first product the Company launched was a digital credit broking platform, the Funding Xchange Marketplace, which has been running for nearly a decade, serving hundreds of thousands of customers, in which time the technology proved its worth, reducing approval time by 75% and saving SMEs on average £9,000 per loan in financing costs (a 57% saving). These learnings from the direct Marketplace enabled Funding Xchange to build market leading technology solutions and today, Funding Xchange is providing white-label software solutions for banks and lenders and is also developing industry-wide solutions that join up the SME finance ecosystem, deliver greater transparency and ensure businesses can access suitable products that address their needs.
Funding Xchange products have been adopted by 80 of the most innovative high street banks, challenger banks and specialist lenders. The company has been recognised as a leading innovator in the commercial lending space and has won numerous international awards, including a BCR grant. In 2024, it raised a Series B, backed by Barclays, which will catalyse the business’ ability to drive ecosystem adoption of these digital tools.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Apr 2024
$13.2m
SERIES B
Sep 2020
$10.6m
SERIES A
Total funding: $32.4m
Company benefits
- Flexible / hybrid working
- Virtual GP, employee assistance and wellbeing support
- 25 days annual leave plus UK Bank Holidays
- Life Assurance – 4 x base salary should the worst happen
- Recruitment referral scheme
- Autoenrollment in a pension scheme with contributions from Funding Xchange
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Katrin Herrling
(CEO)Experience as Senior Director of Strategic Planning and Head of Regional Marketing for American Express from 2005 to 2007. Manager and Principal of Bain & Company from 2007 to 2014.
Share this job