Description
Who are we?
iwoca is breaking down the barriers that stop Europe’s 20 million small businesses from accessing finance. Traditional bank loans have slow application processes, inflexible terms and burdensome criteria. In contrast, we use cutting-edge technology to offer flexible access to credit with a five minute application process and a decision in hours.
Since 2012, we've made finance available to over 50,000 businesses across Europe and lent over £1 billion. Our customers include everything from cafés to car dealers, salons to solicitors. Along the way we have built a sophisticated technology platform, won numerous awards and grown a fun, and vibrant team.
However, we’re still near the start of our journey – our aim is to finance a million small businesses within a decade and so we need more smart, hands-on people to help us reach this goal.
Requirements
At iwoca we are dedicated to building the smartest lending platform in the world as we believe that finance should be as simple, seamless and powerful as electricity. We like to use Agile(ish) processes, which means features or projects go live in days or weeks rather than months or years.
We are very fortunate to have a passionate and dedicated CTO / Co-founder who ensures that Tech is always at the forefront of the business so the work you do is always valued. You will be working in a hybrid team of Data Scientists and Software Developers to design and build a bespoke in-house CRM platform that will help our operations team be as efficient as possible, and give them a structured insight to the data we work with.
We are looking for someone with:
- Experience programming in Python
- Familiarity with JavaScript
- Very strong numerate background, e.g Degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or equivalent
- A high technical aptitude and strong attention to detail
- Self-starter with ability to work autonomously in an unstructured environment
- Strong basis in computer-science fundamentals
- Understanding of web technologies
- Experience with relational databases (we use PostgreSQL)
- A basic understanding of database query optimisation, specifically with SQL
- Hands on experience using Web API is also preferred
Benefits
What’s life like as an iwocan?
We all enjoy:
- Bright, modern office spaces in Tottenham Court Road and Covent Garden
- Two company retreats a year (in places like the French Alps or Spanish seaside)
- Pool, ping pong, foosball tables and tournaments and yoga
- An ever-growing number of clubs including climbing, chess, football and boxing
- Plenty of drinks and snacks in our office kitchen
- A paid volunteering day each year, for you to support your chosen charity
Just for you:
- Medical insurance from Vitality, including discounted gym membership
- Stock options
- Enhanced maternity and shared parental leave
- A workplace nursery tax benefit scheme
- 25 days holiday per year and an extra day off on your birthday
- Extra leave if you want to travel or study
- Special celebrations for anniversaries and long service including sabbatical
- Flexible working
- Cycle-to-work scheme
And to make sure we all keep learning, we offer:
- Tickets to tech conferences across Europe
- Company-wide talks with internal and external speakers
- A calendar of meetups we host at our office
- Access to learning platforms like Treehouse if you want to learn to code