Back End Engineer - Finance Tech team
Back End Engineer - Finance Tech team
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Back End Engineer Finance Tech team
Hybrid in London / Remote (with monthly site visits) in the UK
Were looking for a BackEnd Engineer
Youll be building flexibility and scalability into our product offering payment systems and financial data pipelines.
The company
Fast flexible finance empowers small businesses to manage their cash flow better and seize opportunities making their business and the economy stronger as a whole. At iwoca we do just that. We help businesses get the funds they need when they need it often within minutes. Weve already made several billion in funding available to more than 100000 businesses since we launched in 2012 and positioned ourselves as a leading Fintech in Europe.
Our mission is to finance one million businesses. Well get there by continuing to make our finance ever more relevant and accessible to more businesses by combining cuttingedge technology data science and a 5star customer service.
The team
The Finance tech team works closely with our CFO Head of Capital Markets and Financial Operations Lead. Our teams mission is to enable growth through seamless customer payments and reliable financial data. Frictionless payments are core to iwocas excellent customer service. Financial data is used by Finance other business stakeholders as well as investors so it is crucial it is uptodate and accurate.
The Finance tech team has a Tech Lead PM and six developers predominantly backend although we have been becoming more fullstack this year. We follow Agileinspired processes using continuous integration and delivery so that features go live in days or weeks not months or years.
The role
Lead projects to solve technically challenging business problems.
Develop highquality thoroughly tested code that seamlessly integrates with our architecture.
Critically review code to identify bugs and enhance clarity and scalability.
Build strong relationships with Finance stakeholders and influence the business domain.
Develop deep expertise in payments accounting and financial metrics to inform your work.
Perform detailed technical scoping and prototyping to support the Product Manager in feasibility testing and decisionmaking.
The projects
Payment providers: We will be integrating several new payment partners to facilitate payments to and from our customers. Each new partner provides an opportunity for refactoring to make our systems more scalable.
Loan features: We have new loan product features planned building on previous additions like revenuebased repayments interestonly periods and government guarantees. Feature work will involve updates to our Rustbased loan calculators data models and data warehouse.
Data warehouse improvements: Improving the availability of data and the speed of ETL pipelines to provide analysts and other business stakeholders with effortless access to uptodate financial data. This will involve designing new data tables and pipelines as well as enhancing existing ones.
The requirements
Essential:
Experience working on largescale dataintensive systems.
Experience engaging with stakeholders and leveraging domain insights to drive solutions.
A strong numerical or technical background ideally with a degree in maths physics computer science engineering or a related field.
Bonus:
Experience in finance financial technology payments or accounting
Experience with our technologies: Python Postgres Pandas/Polars RabbitMQ Rust
The salary
We expect to pay fromfor this role. But were openminded so definitely 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 diversity in thought and skill and encourage you to explore new areas of interest to help us improve our products and services.
The offices
We put a lot of effort into making iwoca a brilliant place to work:
Offices in London Leeds and Frankfurt with plenty of drinks and snacks
Events and clubs like bingo comedy nights yoga classes football etc.
The benefits
Flexible working.
Medical insurance from Vitality including discounted gym membership.
A private GP service (separate from Vitality) for you your partner and your dependents.
25 days holiday an extra day off for your birthday the option to buy or sell an additional five days of annual leaveand unlimited unpaid leave.
A onemonth fully paid sabbatical after four years.
Instant access to emotional and mental health support.
3 Pension contributions and share options.
Generous parental leave and a nursery tax benefit scheme to help you .
Cycletowork scheme and electric car scheme.
Two company retreats a year weve been to France Italy Spain and further afield.
And to make sure we all keep learning we offer:
A learning and development budget for everyone.
Companywide talks with internal and external speakers.
Access to learning platforms like Treehouse.
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Employment Type
Full-Time
