Back End Engineer

Back-end Engineer - Repeats Team
Hybrid in London / Remote within the UK

We're hiring a Back-end Engineer to join the Repeats team
We're looking for a Back-end Engineer to design the scalable, high-performance services that allow us to rapidly test and deploy new product ideas for our repeat customers.

The Company
Imagine a world where every small business has the power to thrive. That's the world we're building at iwoca. Small businesses aren't just statistics – they're the heartbeat of our communities, the character of our high streets, and the engine of our economy. Since 2012, we've revolutionised how these businesses access finance, turning what was once a lengthy, frustrating process into something remarkable: funding that's fast, flexible, and actually works for modern businesses.

Our impact speaks for itself: we've provided billions in funding to over 150,000 businesses across Europe, making us one of the continent's leading fintech innovators. But we're just getting started. Our mission? To empower one million businesses with the financial tools they deserve.

We combine cutting-edge technology and data science with genuine human understanding to make finance feel less like a barrier and more like a superpower. Whether it's managing cash flow or seizing unexpected opportunities, we ensure businesses get the funds they need – often within minutes

The team
The Repeats team is an autonomous team responsible for the lending strategy and digital user experience of our recurring customers. They own all the product decisions that occur after a customer has taken their first funding. This includes the user journey for repeat customers, the eligibility and documents requirements for repeat applications, the offer terms (such as offered amount or pricing), among other things. The team is cross-functional, with a data scientist and a strategy analyst on top of back-end and front-end developers. They work collaboratively to design new product features together and ensure these are delivered through an intuitive, high-performing digital experience.

The role
As a Back-end Engineer On The Repeats Team, You Will Design, Build, And Own The High-performance Services That Execute Our Lending Strategy. You Will Get To

• Exercise autonomy: Own projects end to end, from scoping and design to execution. Lead multi-engineer projects, coordinating with analysts, product managers, and other stakeholders.
• Drive impact: Enhance our offerings to meet the needs of repeat customers, improving their access to tailored lending solutions.
• Shape our systems: Design and maintain robust, flexible, and maintainable systems to ensure scalability and fast-paced development.
• Learn through iteration: Embrace a culture of experimentation, using trial and error to uncover insights, refine approaches, and grow your technical and strategic skills.
• Apply continuous deployment: Work iteratively, supported by high test coverage, and contribute to the team's frequent deployment cycles (averaging more than once per day).
• Unlock data-driven decision-making: we use hypothesis testing and metrics such as issuance and profitability to iterate and optimise our approach.

The projects
We're Striving To Offer Our Customers a Lot Of Flexibility, While Making The Product Easy For Them To Understand And Use. We're Constantly Testing New Features And Optimising Existing Parts Of Our Strategy. Here Are Two Examples Of Projects

• Top-up eligibility: We're optimising when customers are able to apply for more funds when they currently have an ongoing loan with us. This will involve setting up several tests affecting a core functionality of our product. This is a great opportunity to learn about our customers' behaviour and optimise a key element of our lending strategy.
• Offer amount testing: You will help re-architect our offer strategy by building and scaling the microservice that controls offer amounts. This project involves designing and migrating business logic from our core monolith to this dedicated service, enabling the team to rapidly test how offer amounts affect customer behaviour, issuance, and loss rate.

Essential
The requirements

• Experience in back-end engineering, ideally with Python.
• Proven experience leading projects end-to-end, from designing to executing a solution,
• Good understanding of business problems and communication with stakeholders.
• Experience writing comprehensive automated tests, and a high level of attention to details to ensure safe releases.

Bonus

• 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).

The salary
We expect to pay from £70,000 - £90,000 for this role. But, we're 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 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, Frankfurt and Berlin 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 leave, and unlimited unpaid leave
• A one-month, 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 save money.
• Cycle-to-work scheme and electric car scheme.
• Two company retreats a year, we've 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

• See iwoca benefits & policies for detail and some additional benefits.
• See interview welcome pack to learn more about the process.

Compensation Range: £70K - £90K