iwoca

Senior Back End Engineer, FinTech

iwoca

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £70,000 - £100,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

DjangoGoPostgresPythonRust

About the role

  • Hybrid in London (UK) or Remote within the UK
  • Lead the delivery of well-defined projects involving many stakeholders and systems.
  • Go beyond the code to develop a deep expertise in the fintech team’s 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.
  • Architect and implement scalable solutions for complex challenges, such as building a new ledger system or integrating real-time payments.
  • Translate ambiguous product requirements into clear, actionable technical plans that guide the team’s work.
  • Contribute high-quality, production-ready code and foster a collaborative environment by reviewing work, helping to troubleshoot live issues, and writing useful documentation.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • Experience building scalable back-end systems for payments or financial ledgers
  • Proficiency in Python and experience with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL
  • Experience building highly available systems that process a large number of transactions (10,000+ per day)
  • A strong numerical or technical background (for example, a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Maths, or a related field).
  • Experience with the Django framework. (Bonus)
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines (DevOps). (Bonus)
  • Experience with Rust. (Bonus)