Back End Engineer, iwoca
Repeats
£70-90k
Plus share options
1-3 days a week in office
Online loans for small businesses
Job no longer available
Online loans for small businesses
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
£70-90k
Plus 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
- Experience in back end engineering, ideally with Python
- Ability to manage projects end-to-end; understanding a business problem, designing and executing a solution, and communicating with stakeholders
Desirable
- An understanding of data analysis and statistics
- A strong numerical or technical background, underpinned by a degree in maths, physics, computer science, engineering, or a related field
- Experience with Django
- Experience with relational databases (ideally PostgreSQL)
What the job involves
- Autonomy: Own projects end to end, from scoping and design to execution. Lead multi-engineer projects, coordinating with analysts, product managers, and other stakeholders
- Impact: Enhance our offerings to meet the needs of repeat customers, improving their access to tailored lending solutions
- Shaping Systems: Design and maintain robust, flexible, and maintainable systems to ensure scalability and fast-paced development
- Learning Through Iteration: Embrace a culture of experimentation, using trial and error to uncover insights, refine approaches, and grow your technical and strategic skills
- Continuous Deployment: Work iteratively, supported by high test coverage, and contribute to the team’s frequent deployment cycles (averaging more than once per day)
- Data-Driven Decision-Making: Use hypothesis testing and metrics such as issuance and profitability to quickly iterate and optimise our approach
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
21% 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
$12.3m
GRANT
Feb 2019
$24.5m
SERIES D
Total funding: $90.3m
Company benefits
- Flexible working.
- 25 days’ holiday, an extra day off for your birthday, the option to buy or sell an additional 5 days of annual leave, unlimited unpaid leave, and one-month fully paid sabbatical after 4 years.
- Instant access to emotional and mental health support with our partner, Spill.
- Pension and share options.
- Generous parental leave and a nursery tax benefit scheme to help you save money.
- Two company retreats a year, we’ve been to France, Italy, Spain and further afield.
- A learning and development budget.
- Company-wide talks with internal and external speakers.
- Events and clubs, like bingo, comedy nights, yoga classes, football, etc.
- Medical insurance from Vitality, including discounted gym membership, and a private GP service for you, your partner, and your dependents.
- Paid volunteering day to support your chosen charity.
- Cycle-to-work scheme and electric car scheme.
- See iwoca benefits & policies for detail and some additional benefits: https://coda.io/@iwocauk/iwoca-benefits-policies-uk
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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