Backend Engineer (Python)

  • iwoca
  • Dec 06, 2021
Full time

Job Description

Join one of Europe's leading Fintech startups. iwoca is breaking down the barriers that stop Europe's 20 million small businesses from accessing finance. We believe finance should make life easier, not harder, for small businesses. When small businesses go to traditional lenders they are forced to deal with long waits, absurdly rigid criteria, and impersonal bureaucracies.

We believe small businesses deserve a financing service that strips out the hassle; that gets to know each customer's needs; that generates opportunities instead of problems. iwoca is finance, custom-built to expand possibilities for small business.

We're still near the start of our journey - our aim is to finance one million small businesses within a decade and we need more smart, hands-on people to help us reach this goal.

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.

About the role:

At iwoca we are dedicated to building the smartest lending platform in the world as we believe that finance should be as simple, seamless and powerful as electricity. We like to use Agile(ish) processes, which means features or projects go live in days or weeks rather than months or years.

We run our Django-powered site on AWS, use asynchronous tools (Twisted, Celery) for time-consuming tasks and scientific libraries (numpy, scipy, pandas) for risk aspects. Application orchestration is done with Docker/Terraform/ECS and our monitoring is set up using DataDog/Sentry. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to learn lots on the job and develop rapidly within a high performing team of engineers.

We want to pay all of our employees fairly, so that's why we regularly benchmark salaries based on market rates and to recognise your increasing value to our business. We are ideally looking to pay between £45,000 - £90,000 DOE for this role, this isn't fixed so let us know in your application what you are looking for. We know there may be some candidates who may not fit within this salary range, if this is the case we would still love to hear from you.

Requirements:

We look for people that are smart, humble, motivated and who are always looking to improve. Ideally, you'll have:

  • Very strong numerate background, e.g. Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or equivalent
  • A high technical aptitude and strong attention to detail
  • Experience programming in Python / Django (but we will definitely consider ambitious graduates looking to kickstart their career)
  • Self-starter with ability to work autonomously in an unstructured environment
  • Understanding of web technologies
  • Industry experience with full stack architecture
  • Relational databases (esp. PostgreSQL)
  • Willingness to learn!
Not required but would be great to see:
  • Typescript / React
  • Experience with Docker
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  • Flexi-working
  • Retreats abroad
  • Medical insurance from Vitality, including discounted gym membership
  • Therapy sessions from Spill
  • Share options
  • Enhanced maternity and shared parental leave
  • A workplace nursery tax benefit scheme
  • 25 days holiday per year and an extra day off on your birthday,
  • Unlimited unpaid leave
  • Paid volunteering day
  • Special celebrations for anniversaries and long service including sabbatical
  • Cycle-to-work scheme
  • L&D budget
  • Book budget
  • Company-wide talks with internal and external speakers
  • Access to learning platforms like Treehouse if you want to learn to code
  • Telephone Call
  • Tech Test
  • Technical interview
  • Cultural interview
  • Offer
Python, DjangoPython, Django, PostgreSQL, Typescript, React, Docker