Senior Engineer, Funding Circle
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2 days a week in office (Queen Victoria Street, London)
Business finance that backs you and your business to succeed
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Business finance that backs you and your business to succeed
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
+ share schemes
2 days a week in office (Queen Victoria Street, London)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build the place where small businesses go to get the funding they need to win
Role
Who you are
- You love working in a complex problem domain where you can have a real and substantial impact on the business
- You have an interest or experience in relational databases, automated testing, microservices and/or event-driven architecture
- You are a keen collaborator - you love to pair and believe that working together is smarter than working in a silo
- You are a teacher - generous with your time and expertise to teach stakeholders and our fellow engineers how to answer their own questions, and can explain complex problems simply
- You proactively problem solve, identify and confidently mitigate risks, issues or address weaknesses that arise in your day-to-day
- You have a strong sense of initiative, seeking out answers where they may not immediately be clear and driving clarity from ambiguity
- We value deep expertise, but a growth mindset and good energy are what really make our team click
- Experience working in Ruby or Python
- Strong fundamental programming skills
- Ability to quickly grasp and understand complex back end systems
- It’s beneficial, but not essential if you have an interest in working with complex mathematical problems
- We’re building a place where everyone truly feels they belong. Even if your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement, we'd still love to hear from you
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Loan Servicing team within our Product Engineering department
- Our Servicing team build the systems that keep our loans moving. As a senior engineer, you’ll play a critical role in evolving our loan infrastructure, ensuring accuracy, speed and simplicity. Our team are keen problem solvers, collaborators and innovators
- This is a brilliant opportunity to get involved in a team that are core to what our customers experience once they take out a product with Funding Circle
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Funding Circle launched in 2010 and it was the perfect time in the market. After the financial crisis in 2008, financial institutions were hesitant to lend money. Loans to SMEs were at record lows.
This meant that Funding Circle's innovative platform - connecting investors and businesses directly - had immediate product-market fit and growth. Funding Circle remains incredibly focused on small businesses, and this set it apart from other lending platforms. The business has since expanded to the USA.
The company completed its IPO in September 2018 in a challenging economic environment in Europe and the USA. In 2020, however, trading in the group’s core UK market was helped by its participation in the government’s Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme – the company says it has been responsible for a quarter of CBILS loans by volume since it was accredited to join the scheme in April 2020. Funding Circle continues to be a leading SME financing platform, exemplified by its partnership with Bayview Asset Management, with whom it has surpassed £1 billion in funding for its Term Lending product.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Meet the team
Alice, Collections Executive
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Company
Employee endorsements
Focus on employee wellbeing
"We've moved to a hybrid way of working at FC. We have lots of employee benefits, from lunch budgets (Just Eat), to retail discounts, gym/health..."
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2017
$105.2m
SERIES F
Apr 2015
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $377.7m
Company benefits
- Annual learning budget
- Private Health insurance covering pre-existing conditions
- 5% Matched Pension
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Access to Wellhub (discounted gym access)
- Dental Insurance
- Just Eat for Business allowance when in the office
- Enhanced parental and adoption leave
Company values
- Think smart
- Obsess over the customer
- Make it happen
- Be open
- Stand together
- Live the adventure
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Lisa Jacobs
(CEO)Lisa is responsible for driving the company’s strategy and overseeing Funding Circle's operations in the UK and US.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Funding Circle
Victoria Bradford-Hall (VP, People)
- At Funding Circle, we are on a mission to back small businesses like no other company has ever done before. To succeed, we need a team that reflects the diverse world of the customers we support. We are building a place where everyone truly feels they belong. We know our success is rooted in a culture where every Circler - regardless of background, identity, or experience - has the confidence to bring their whole self to work. In our fast-moving environment, we don't just "accept" diversity; we actively seek it out to help us spot opportunities and find a better way. We measure our success not just by what we achieve individually, but by the impact we have on others. Even if your past experience does not align perfectly with every requirement, we would still love to hear from you.
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