Back End Engineer

iwoca
London
4 days ago
Create job alert

Back End Engineer Repeats Team

Hybrid in London UK

The company

Fast flexible finance empowers small businesses to manage their cash flow better and seize opportunities making their business and the economy stronger as a whole. At iwoca we do just that. We help businesses get the funds they need when they need it often within minutes. Weve already made several billion in funding available to more than 100000 businesses since we launched in 2012 and positioned ourselves as a leading Fintech in Europe.

Our mission is to finance one million businesses. Well get there by continuing to make our finance ever more relevant and accessible to more businesses by combining cuttingedge technology data science and a 5star customer service.

The team

More than half of iwocas lending goes to repeat customers. The Repeats team shapes iwocas product offering and user experience for those customers by using the scientific method to maximise an internal metric. As the team works to maximise a metric rather than reporting to a stakeholder they enjoy a high degree of autonomy in choosing how to optimise these areas.

The team has a data scientist (with a second joining soon) a frontend engineer and two backend engineers (you would be the third).

The role

  • Autonomy: Own projects end to end from scoping and design to . Lead multiengineer projects coordinating with analysts product managers and other stakeholders.

  • Impact: Enhance our offerings to meet the needs of repeat customers improving their access to tailored lending solutions.

  • Shaping Systems: Design and maintain robust flexible and maintainable systems to ensure scalability and fastpaced development.

  • Learning Through Iteration: Embrace a culture of experimentation using trial and error to uncover insights refine approaches and grow your technical and strategic skills.

  • Continuous Deployment: Work iteratively supported by high test coverage and contribute to the teams frequent deployment cycles (averaging more than once per day).

  • DataDriven DecisionMaking: Use hypothesis testing and metrics such as issuance and profitability to quickly iterate and optimise our approach.

The projects

  • Instant decisions: We can sometimes make instant decisions by using fresh automatically collected data to refresh a customers previous decision (made by a credit analyst). Well make improvements to this process to allow instant decisions for larger amounts and for more customers.

  • Offer amount testing: Implement a test that will help us understand how offer amount affects customer behaviour issuance and loss. This should allow us to increase issuance and better meet our customers needs.

  • New product features: Were striving to offer our customers as much flexibility as possible while making the product easy for them to understand and use. Although we cant share details of unreleased features some recent highlights include interestonly periods (where for the first few repayments the customer only repays interest) and the option to extend these periods.

The requirements

Essential:

  • Experience in back end engineering ideally with Python.

  • Ability to manage projects endtoend; understanding a business problem designing and executing a solution and communicating with stakeholders.

Bonus:

  • 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).

The salary

We expect to pay fromfor this role. But were openminded so definitely include your salary goals with your application. We routinely benchmark salaries against market rates and run quarterly performance and salary reviews.

The culture

At iwoca we prioritise a culture of learning growth and support and invest in the professional development of our team members. We value diversity in thought and skill and encourage you to explore new areas of interest to help us improve our products and services.

The offices

We put a lot of effort into making iwoca a brilliant place to work:

  • Offices in London Leeds and Frankfurt with plenty of drinks and snacks

  • Events and clubs like bingo comedy nights yoga classes football etc.

The 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 leaveand unlimited unpaid leave

  • A onemonth 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 .

  • Cycletowork scheme and electric car scheme.

  • Two company retreats a year weve been to France Italy Spain and further afield.

And to make sure we all keep learning we offer:

  • A learning and development budget for everyone.

  • Companywide talks with internal and external speakers.

  • Access to learning platforms like Treehouse.

Useful links:


Key Skills
EMR Systems,Typing,Customer Service,Athenahealth,HIPAA,Debits & Credits,POS,Microsoft Outlook,Medical office experience,Office Experience,Dental Office Experience,Phone Etiquette
Employment Type :Full-Time
Experience:years
Vacancy:1
Monthly Salary Salary:70000 - 90000

Related Jobs

View all jobs

Back End Engineer

Lead Back-end Engineer

Senior Back-End Engineer

Back End Typescript & AWS Engineer/Developer

Lead Full Stack Engineer

Lead Mobile Engineer

Get the latest insights and jobs direct. Sign up for our newsletter.

By subscribing you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service.

Industry Insights

Discover insightful articles, industry insights, expert tips, and curated resources.

Contract vs Permanent AI Jobs: Which Pays Better in 2025?

n the ever-evolving world of technology, the competition for top talent in artificial intelligence (AI) is intense—and the rewards are significant. By 2025, AI roles in machine learning, natural language processing, data science, and robotics are expected to be among the highest-paid professions within the UK technology sector. As an AI professional, deciding between contracting (either as a day‑rate contractor or via fixed-term contracts) and permanent employment could drastically impact your take‑home pay, job security, and career trajectory. In this article, we will delve into the various types of AI roles in 2025—particularly focusing on day‑rate contracting, fixed-term contract (FTC) roles, and permanent positions. We will compare the earning potential across these three employment types, discuss the key pros and cons, and provide practical examples of how your annual take‑home pay might differ under each scenario. Whether you are already working in AI or looking to break into this booming field, understanding these employment options will help you make an informed decision on your next move.

AI Jobs for Non‑Technical Professionals: Where Do You Fit In?

Your Seat at the AI Table Artificial Intelligence (AI) has left the lab and entered boardrooms, high‑street banks, hospitals and marketing agencies across the United Kingdom. Yet a stubborn myth lingers: “AI careers are only for coders and PhDs.” If you can’t write TensorFlow, surely you have no place in the conversation—right? Wrong. According to PwC’s UK AI Jobs Barometer 2024, vacancies mentioning AI rose 61 % year‑on‑year, but only 35 % of those adverts required advanced programming skills (pwc.co.uk). The Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) likewise reports that Britain’s fastest‑growing AI employers are “actively recruiting non‑technical talent to scale responsibly” (gov.uk). Put simply, the nation needs communicators, strategists, ethicists, marketers and project leaders every bit as urgently as it needs machine‑learning engineers. This 2,500‑word guide shows where you fit in—and how to land an AI role without touching a line of Python.

ElevenLabs AI Jobs in 2025: Your Complete UK Guide to Crafting Human‑Level Voice Technology

"Make any voice sound infinitely human." That tagline catapulted ElevenLabs from hack‑day prototype to unicorn‑status voice‑AI platform in under three years. The London‑ and New York‑based start‑up’s text‑to‑speech, dubbing and voice‑cloning APIs now serve publishers, film studios, ed‑tech giants and accessibility apps across 45 languages. After an $80 m Series B round in January 2024—which pushed valuation above $1 bn—ElevenLabs is scaling fast, doubling revenue every quarter and hiring aggressively. If you’re an ML engineer who dreams in spectrograms, an audio‑DSP wizard or a product storyteller who can translate jargon into creative workflows, this guide explains how to land an ElevenLabs AI job in 2025.