Backend Software Engineer
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Back End Engineer
iwoca
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 £70,000 - £90,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
DjangoPostgresPython
About the role
- Design, build, and own the high-performance services that execute our lending strategy.
- Own projects end to end, from scoping and design to execution. Lead multi-engineer projects, coordinating with analysts, product managers, and other stakeholders.
- Enhance our offerings to meet the needs of repeat customers, improving their access to tailored lending solutions.
- Design and maintain robust, flexible, and maintainable systems to ensure scalability and fast-paced development.
- Embrace a culture of experimentation, using trial and error to uncover insights, refine approaches, and grow your technical and strategic skills.
- Work iteratively, supported by high test coverage, and contribute to the team’s frequent deployment cycles (averaging more than once per day).
- Use hypothesis testing and metrics such as issuance and profitability to iterate and optimise our approach.
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.
- 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).
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.
- A learning and development budget for everyone.
- Company-wide talks with internal and external speakers.
- Access to learning platforms like Treehouse.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Pythonback-end engineeringDjangoautomated testingdata analysisstatisticsrelational databasesPostgreSQLscalabilityhigh test coverage
Soft skills
project leadershipcommunicationattention to detailproblem-solvingcollaborationadaptabilitystrategic thinkingexperimentationstakeholder managementiterative development
