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Senior Backend Developer (Python)

Creata il 11-05-2022
Location London

Descrizione

iwoca is enabling Europe’s 20 million small businesses to access finance. We have built an award-winning, sophisticated machine learning technology platform, offering access to flexible 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 mission is to finance 1,000,000 small businesses within a decade. We need more smart, humble, hands on people to help us reach this goal.

We're hiring a Senior Back End Developer (Python) to work on our Django-powered site on AWS, use asynchronous tools (Twisted, Celery) for time-consuming tasks and scientific libraries (NumPy, SciPy, pandas) for risk aspects. We use Docker/Terraform/ECS for application orchestration, and DataDog/Sentry for our monitoring.

Requirements

We're seeking someone with;

  • Strong numerate educational background (CS, Engineering, Maths, Physics etc).
  • Significant back end development commercial experience.
  • Python/Django experience.
  • Relational database experience (PostgreSQL).
  • Experience with Docker.
  • Enthusiasm to build useful, real-world products.
  • An open-minded attitude.

Bonus attributes;

  • Rust (programming language) experience or interest.
  • Mentoring skills and leadership potential.
  • Previously worked in a tech product scale-up company.

Benefits

What’s life like as an iwocan?

We all enjoy:

  • Bright, modern office spaces in London (Fitzrovia) & Leeds, and we support remote compatible working.
  • A calendar of both in-office and remote events week including Bingo, Comedy Nights, Escape Room challenges….
  • Two company retreats a year (in places like the French Alps or Spanish seaside).
  • Pool, ping pong, foosball tables and tournaments.
  • Virtual and in-office yoga classes every Tuesday and Thursday morning.
  • An ever-growing number of clubs including climbing, chess, football and boxing.
  • Plenty of drinks and snacks in our office kitchen.

Just for you:

  • Medical insurance from Vitality, including discounted gym membership.
  • We take your well being incredibly seriously, so you’ll have instant access to emotional and mental health support services via our partner Spill.
  • Share options.
  • Enhanced maternity and shared parental leave.
  • A workplace nursery tax benefit scheme. Save £££ on your nursery costs.
  • 25 days holiday per year and an extra day off on your birthday.
  • All the equipment you need to set up your home working space up.
  • Paid volunteering time for you to support your chosen charity.
  • Extra leave if you want to travel or study.
  • Special celebrations for anniversaries and long service including sabbatical.
  • Flexible working arrangements.
  • Cycle-to-work scheme.

And to make sure we all keep learning, we offer:

  • L&D budget including a book budget to encourage you to keep learning.
  • 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.

Benefit

25 days holiday a year, plus all UK Bank holidays

25 days holi...

A smart, fun and internationally diverse team - together, we represent over 35 different nationalities

A smart, fun...

Additional leave so that you can take more time to go travelling or to study, outside of your holiday allowance

Additional l...

An additional Day Off on your Birthday

An additiona...

Company-wide talks with internal and external speakers

Company-wide...

Cycle-to-work scheme for great value bikes

Cycle-to-wor...

Enhanced maternity/paternity leave and shared parental leave

Enhanced mat...

Plenty of drinks and snacks in our office kitchen

Plenty of dr...

Pool, ping pong, foosball tables and tournaments, morning yoga and an ever-growing number of active clubs (you can set up your own!)

Pool, ping p...

Regular novelty perks such as free massages, which can be proposed by anyone in the team

Regular nove...

Stock options for all employees after 6 months within the business

Stock option...

The opportunity to give your time to support a charity of your choice, via a paid volunteering day

The opportun...

Working from the summer/ winter house twice a year

Working from...

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