Full Stack Engineer, iwoca
iwocaPay
£70-80k
1+ day a week in office
Online loans for small businesses
Open for applications
Online loans for small businesses
201-500 employees
Open for applications
£70-80k
1+ day a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To fund one million small businesses.
Role
Who you are
- Significant back end engineering experience, ideally using Python
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining API endpoints
- Confidence working across the stack, including front-end development in React/TypeScript
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate business needs into clear, effective technical solutions
Desirable
- Familiarity with PHP, particularly for contributing to ecommerce plugins
- Experience with Django and PostgreSQL
- Understanding of DevOps practices, including containerisation and CI/CD
- A strong numerical or technical background, with a degree in maths, physics, computer science, engineering, or relevant industry experience
What the job involves
- As a full-stack engineer in the iwocaPay team, you’ll build APIs, user interfaces, and ecommerce plugins that help suppliers get paid fast
- You’ll shape the end-to-end experience for buyers and suppliers, using data to guide improvements and measure impact. You’ll work closely with product, design, operations, and other iwoca teams to deliver high-quality, user-focused features
- Improving checkout conversion: We're testing different UX approaches and payment options to reduce friction at checkout and increase conversion for sellers using iwocaPay. This includes experimenting with offer layouts, messaging, and eligibility visibility
- Smarter credit decisions: We’re enhancing our decision engine to offer more accurate and instant credit decisions for buyers, based on real-time data. This includes refining our models to support higher-value transactions and broader customer segments
- Ecommerce integrations: We’re expanding and improving our plugins for major ecommerce platforms, making them easier for suppliers to install and use. The goal is to simplify onboarding while supporting more use cases out of the box
- Payment flexibility: We're building features that give buyers more control over their repayment schedules, while ensuring suppliers still get paid upfront. Recent examples include variable instalment options and post-purchase payment adjustments
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
$13.5m
GRANT
Feb 2019
$26.9m
SERIES D
Total funding: $97.6m
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
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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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