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.