Back End Engineer - Finance Technology Team

Hybrid in London (UK) or Remote within the UK

The company

Small businesses move fast. Opportunities often dont wait and cash flow pressures can appear overnight. To keep going and growing SMEs need finance thats as flexible and responsive as they are.

Thats why we built iwoca. Our smart technology data science and five-star customer service ensures business owners can act with the speed confidence and control they need exactly when its needed.

Weve already cleared the way for 100000 businesses with more than 4 billion in funding. Our passionate team is driven to help even more SMEs succeed through access to better finance and other services that make running a business easier. Our ultimate mission is to support one million SMEs in their defining moments creating lasting impact for the communities and economies they drive.

The team

The Finance Technology team builds and maintains the payment infrastructure and financial data systems that power iwocas growth. The team partners with the Finance team to build scalable tools and supports other product teams to launch new products with enhancements to the payment infrastructure and financial data systems.

As a group of skilled back-end engineers they work closely with a dedicated Tech Lead and Product Manager using Agile methods to ship code frequently and solve complex problems together. Four of the team work remotely and three are hybrid working 1-3 days per week in the London office.

The role

Responsibility and Autonomy:

• Contribute to the delivery of well-defined projects involving many stakeholders and systems.

• Go beyond the code to develop a deep expertise in the Finance Technology teams domain understand our core financial products and our stakeholder needs to become a trusted technical advisor to the business.

• Perform detailed technical scoping and prototyping to support feasibility testing and decision making.

Delivery and Collaboration

• Implement scalable solutions for complex challenges such as building payment microservices implementing direct debits and rearchitecting our reporting technology

• Translate ambiguous product requirements into clear actionable technical plans that guide the teams work.

• Contribute high-quality production-ready code and foster a collaborative environment by reviewing work helping to troubleshoot live issues and writing useful documentation.

Learning and Growth:

• Embrace and demonstrate a growth mindset by sharing new technologies and best practices within the team and across the company.

• Work with the Tech Lead to improve our development and agile practices and to help raise the technical bar within the team.

The requirements

Essential:

• Experience with Python web frameworks (Django / FastAPI / Flask / Starlette / Ninja).

• Experience with relational databases ideally PostgreSQL but open to MySQL or similar (e.g. MS SQL Oracle); emphasis is on data integrity.

• Experience contributing to the delivery of complex projects implemented by several engineers including taking features from conception (0-1) to launch in a startup scale-up or SME environment.

• A strong technical or mathematical foundation evidenced by a degree in a quantitative field (Computer Science Engineering Physics Maths or similar) or equivalent professional experience.

• Experience of building and managing complex API integrations (e.g. Payments like Stripe/Braintree or high-scale integrations in industries like Telecoms Travel Ad-Tech or similar).

Bonus:

• A background in high-logic or high-scale fields like Fintech Gaming Healthcare Tech Logistics Security/Cryptography or similar.

The salary

We expect to pay from 70000 to 80000 for this role. But were open-minded 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 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

We put a lot of effort into making iwoca a great place to work:

• Offices in London Leeds Berlin and Frankfurt with plenty of drinks and snacks.

• Events and community-led groups including running groups padel and monthly ping-pong and pool competitions.

The benefits

• Flexible working hours.

• 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 per year an extra day off for your birthday the 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 that need emotional or mental health support.

• 3% Pension contributions on total earnings.

• An employee equity incentive scheme.

• Generous parental leave and a nursery tax benefit scheme to help you save money.

• Electric car scheme and cycle to work 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.

• Company-wide talks with internal and external speakers.

• Access to learning platforms like Treehouse.

Useful links:

• iwoca benefits & policies.

• Interview welcome pack.

Required Experience:

IC