iwoca

Backend Engineer - Acquisition Technology

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11 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own the German acquisition technology stack, including lead-value signals, advertising-platform integrations, bidding, and attribution.
  • Shape the technical strategy, architecture, scaling approach, and long-term roadmap for German acquisition systems.
  • Build backend systems, data pipelines, databases, APIs, and HubSpot tooling for sales and acquisition workflows.
  • Work with marketing and data science to target relevant businesses, optimise acquisition funnels, and improve conversion.
  • Integrate third-party APIs to reduce sign-up friction and improve lead data across acquisition channels.
  • Engineer production features for data-science models and establish versioning and monitoring for those models.
  • Collaborate with UK acquisition engineers through code reviews and design decisions, and work with product, marketing, sales, commercial strategy, and data science teams.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience designing and building production backend systems in Python.
  • Strong SQL skills beyond CRUD, including schema design, query tuning, and reasoning about relational data flows.
  • Ability to take work from problem definition through delivery, making trade-offs and iterating based on system usage.
  • Experience translating commercial or product goals into technical solutions while working with marketing and sales.
  • Experience building agentic workflows or using AI to increase engineering output, with sound judgment about when to use it.
  • Clear, direct, concise written and verbal communication adapted to the audience.
  • Preferred: willingness to build frontend elements using React or TypeScript.
  • Preferred: experience with SQLAlchemy, scikit-learn, pandas, and PostgreSQL.
  • Preferred: experience designing, building, and managing relational databases.
  • Preferred: experience with Snowflake, Looker, or equivalent analytics tooling.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working in London or remote within the UK.
  • Flexible working hours and access to offices in London, Leeds, Berlin, and Frankfurt.
  • £70,000–£85,000 salary range, with quarterly performance and salary reviews.
  • Vitality medical insurance, discounted gym membership, and private GP access for the employee, partner, and dependents.
  • 25 days’ holiday, a birthday day off, the option to buy or sell five additional days, and unlimited unpaid leave.
  • A one-month fully paid sabbatical after four years.
  • External counselling and therapy sessions, 3% pension contributions on total earnings, and an employee equity incentive scheme.
  • Generous parental leave, nursery tax benefit, electric car, and cycle-to-work schemes.
  • Two company retreats per year, a learning and development budget, company talks, and access to learning platforms such as Treehouse.

Tech Stack

PandasPostgreSQLPythonReactscikit-learnSnowflakeSQLTypeScript

Categories

BackendData Engineering
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About iwoca

501-1,000 employees

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.

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