Overview

The Back End Engineer - Partner Tech Team role at iwoca (Hybrid in London / Remote within the UK). We partner with a variety of third-party platforms to embed iwoca loans into their customer journey. Our mission is to empower small businesses with fast, flexible funding and to build fintech that supports growth.

Responsibilities

• Continually improving our Lending API and other developer tools, so that partners can integrate with iwoca quickly and easily.
• Adding new functionality to facilitate deeper integrations and ensure iwoca is the best embedded finance provider on the market.
• Improving the conversion rate of customers who come to us through partners, by streamlining the journey and removing obstacles.
• Own features and projects from scoping and design through to production.
• Collaborate with other engineers to meet the team’s goals, while being trusted to define your own solutions and work independently.
• Design and maintain robust, flexible, and maintainable systems to ensure scalability and fast-paced development.
• Deliver new functionality critical to onboarding important new partners and optimise the customer experience.
• Leave code, docs, and processes in better shape than you found them.
• Work on systems that genuinely help businesses get the funding they need and design effective solutions with partners and internal stakeholders.
• Use data to make decisions, uncover insights, and refine strategies.

Autonomy

• Own features and projects from scoping and design through to production.
• Collaborate with other engineers to meet the team’s goals, whilst being trusted to define your own solutions and work independently on your part of the problem.
• Design and maintain robust, flexible, and maintainable systems to ensure scalability and fast-paced development.

Impact

• Deliver new functionality critical to onboarding important new partners.
• Optimise the customer experience, leading to measurable improvements.
• Leave code, docs, and processes in better shape than you found them.

Purpose And Product Thinking

• Work on systems that genuinely help businesses get the funding they need.
• Collaborate with our partners and internal stakeholders to design effective solutions.
• Use data to inform decisions, uncover insights, and refine strategies.

Essential

• Experience designing and building scalable back-end systems, ideally in Python with Django.
• Experience working with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL, with an understanding of performance and maintainability considerations.
• Experience building and maintaining APIs that are easy to use, reliable, and well-documented.
• Experience managing projects end to end, from understanding business problems to designing and delivering technical solutions.
• Pragmatism in balancing delivery speed with long-term system health.
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication, focusing on outcomes and impact.

Bonus

• Front-end development experience, particularly with React and Typescript.
• Experience with DevOps practices, including containerisation and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience using data to inform technical decisions or product improvements.

The salary

We expect to pay from £65,000—£90,000 for this role. We’re open-minded, so please include your salary goals with your application. We routinely benchmark salaries against market rates and run quarterly performance and salary reviews.

The culture

At iwoca, we prioritise a culture of learning, growth, and support, and invest in the professional development of our team members. We value thought and skill diversity, and encourage you to explore new areas of interest to help us innovate and improve our products and services.

The offices

Offices in London, Leeds, Berlin, and Frankfurt with plenty of drinks and snacks. Events and clubs like bingo, comedy nights, football, etc.

The Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Medical insurance from Vitality, including discounted gym membership
• A private GP service for you, your partner, and your dependents
• 25 days’ holiday per year, an extra day off for your birthday, option to buy or sell an additional five days of annual leave, and unlimited unpaid leave
• A one-month, fully paid sabbatical after four years
• Instant access to external counselling and therapy sessions for team members
• 3% Pension contributions on total earnings
• An employee equity incentive scheme
• Generous parental leave and a nursery tax benefit scheme
• Electric car scheme and cycle to work scheme
• Two company retreats a year
• Learning and development budget for everyone; company-wide talks; access to learning platforms

Compensation Range: £65K - £90K

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

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