6 days ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the engineering roadmap for the New Customers team, including deciding what business logic to extract from the legacy monolith and in what order.
- Design, build, and operate services that turn lending models and rules into decisions for each application.
- Build systems that enable data scientists to test new models on live applications and measure long-term outcomes.
- Line-manage and coach two engineers, provide context, support end-to-end ownership, and hire engineers as the team grows.
- Translate business goals into technical plans and communicate trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Use and evaluate AI-assisted engineering workflows while checking outputs before production.
Requirements
- At least two years of leading an engineering team with line-management responsibilities while remaining hands-on.
- Deep expertise in at least one object-oriented programming language and experience designing, building, and running customer-facing backend systems in production.
- Strong commercial or product thinking, including the ability to connect technical trade-offs to customer and business outcomes.
- Experience building agentic workflows or using AI to deliver engineering work beyond individual capacity.
- Clear, direct, concise written and verbal communication skills.
- Preferred: experience in lending, payments, or another domain involving financial risk.
- Preferred: experience building controlled-experiment systems, especially long-running experiments.
- Preferred: experience migrating business-critical logic from a complex legacy monolith.
- Preferred: experience taking data-science work from prototype to production.
- Preferred: experience with Python, Django, and PostgreSQL.
- Preferred: experience building frontend features as well as backend services.
Benefits
- Hybrid work in London with offices also available in Leeds, Berlin, and Frankfurt.
- Flexible working hours.
- Medical insurance from Vitality with discounted gym membership and a separate private GP service for the employee, partner, and dependents.
- 25 days of annual leave, a birthday day off, the option to buy or sell up to five additional days, and unlimited unpaid leave.
- A fully paid one-month sabbatical after four years.
- External counselling and therapy sessions.
- 3% pension contributions on total earnings.
- Employee equity incentive scheme.
- Generous parental leave and a nursery tax benefit scheme.
- Electric car scheme and cycle-to-work scheme.
- Two company retreats per year.
- Learning and development budget, company-wide talks, and access to learning platforms such as Treehouse.
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About iwoca
iwoca provides working capital loans, credit lines and B2B payment options to small businesses in the UK, delivered online and via partner integrations. It earns interest and fees on lending and also offers an API for embedded finance. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in London’s West End, the privately held company says it has provided funding to over 100,000 businesses.