Full Stack Developer, iwoca
BYG
£60-80k
+ Equity incentive scheme
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
£60-80k
+ Equity incentive scheme
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
- Extensive commercial experience in both frontend and backend development, ideally with React, TypeScript, and Python
- Solid understanding of RESTful APIs and integration with backend services
- Strong skills in browser testing and debugging
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex business needs into effective technical solutions
Desirable
- Passionate about innovation, evolving technologies, and engineering best practices
- Experienced with Django
- Comfortable working in a dynamic and autonomous environment
- Driven to “get things done” and deliver high-quality solutions
What the job involves
- We're looking for a full stack engineer who’s ready to make a real impact by developing the tools that empower iwoca’s teams to serve our customers effectively
- You'll help shape our technical strategy and work on high-impact projects like optimising our in-house CRM, custom-built phone system, and data-driven task management solutions
- As the Full Stack Developer, you will join the BYG team (Backyard Gardeners), who build and develop the tools that allow our operational teams to best serve iwoca's customers
- Those tools include our own proprietary Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software (called Eden) as well as the systems supporting calls (including our proprietary phone system), emails, and notifications
- These systems are used by more than 200 people in the company who interact with our customers - such as sales, customer success, credit analysts, broker account managers, and collections specialists
- As a Full Stack Engineer in the team, you’ll help shape our technical strategy in collaboration with our Product and Operations Strategy teams, and enable 200+ iwoca operations staff to efficiently and accurately serve and support our customers
- You’ll be responsible for building on top of our successful in-house CRM to deliver robust, efficient targeted solutions across a range of exciting, impactful projects
- Task Management (TM) enhancements: Our TM system helps ensure Operations Staffs carry out and prioritise the most valuable tasks to iwoca. You will help support this by working alongside our talented team of Data Scientists
- Phone system optimisation: Our custom-built phone system helps direct over 1000 daily calls to the right member of staff. By having complete control over the lifecycle of a phone call and the data attached to it, we are able to offer many improvements over an out-of-the-box solution
- Eden interface solutions: Eden is our CRM, developed with React and TypeScript, designed to support our operations team by managing key operational processes. You will leverage data visualisation and interact with many third party APIs to create impactful solutions using a modern tech stack
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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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
$12.5m
GRANT
Feb 2019
$24.9m
SERIES D
Total funding: $91.4m
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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