iwoca.co.uk - Backend Engineer - Partner Flow
Requirements
• Experience designing and building scalable back-end systems, ideally in Python. • Experience working with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL, with an understanding of performance and maintainability considerations. • Experience building and maintaining APIs that are easy to use, reliable, and well-documented. • Experience managing projects end to end, from understanding business problems to designing and delivering technical solutions. • Pragmatism in balancing delivery speed with long-term system health. • Clear, concise written and verbal communication, focusing on outcomes and impact. • A genuine team player: you support your teammates, share knowledge, and care about the team's success as much as your own. • AI fluency. Experience using AI coding tools to accelerate real delivery, and a genuine interest in getting better at it - with a pragmatic sense of where it adds value and where it doesn't. • Front-end development experience, particularly with React and Typescript. • Experience with DevOps practices, including containerisation and CI/CD pipelines. • Experience with experimentation (e.g. A/B tests or RCTs) or using data to drive product decisions. • Working knowledge of modern data tooling - ideally Snowflake and dbt - used to build analytical or reporting pipelines.
Responsibilities
• Section 3 of 3: You and AI • At iwoca, we expect AI to become central to how analytical and technical work gets done. We’re looking for AI native engineers who use the latest tools to turn great ideas into living products. • Which of these have you experimented with or integrated into your workflow? • Whether it’s for your day job or a weekend project, tell us what’s in your toolkit. Select all that apply. • Models in CLI (e.g. Claude Code, Aider, Cline, or similar) • AI-Native IDEs (e.g. Cursor, Windsurf, PearAI, or similar) • Spec-driven development (SDD): Using AI to turn high level specs into working code (e.g. using tools like Kiro, Spec-kit, Tessl Framework or similar) • Advanced Context & Knowledge Graphs (e.g. Cognee, MCP servers, RAG-based codebase indexing) • Locally hosted AI (e.g. Ollama, LM Studio, or similar) • AI Reliability & Maintenance (e.g. building evals, observability, or guardrails for your AI workflows) • None of the above • Is the tool you had in mind not mentioned above? Note it here • Tell us a story about an AI-driven workflow you’ve built that you’re proud of. • Professional or personal – both count. We’d love to hear what the bottleneck or challenge was, what you used or built, and what happened. • Diversity Survey (Optional) • This survey helps us evaluate our diversity and inclusion efforts. It's voluntary and optional. And, refusal to submit the survey will not affect your job application. • Survey answers are not seen on an individual basis. This submission will only be used to help us with our commitment to continuously improve our diversity and inclusivity best practices. • Either way, thank you for reading. • What is your current age? • I prefer not to answer • What is your gender identity? • Another Gender Identity • Which of the following communities do you belong to? Please select all that apply. • Person with disability • Refugee or immigrant • None of the above • What is your racial or ethnic identity? • Our data retention policy. • When you apply for a job at iwoca we will retain your personal data (includes your CV, email correspondence, interview notes and application test scores) for a period of time so that, in the event of a legal claim, we can demonstrate that we did not discriminate against applicants on prohibited grounds and that we conducted the recruitment process in a fair and transparent manner. • For candidates applying to our vacancies in the UK: • If you are unsuccessful with your application we will keep hold of your data for 6 months. For more information on this, please see our UK candidate privacy notice. • For candidates applying to our vacancies in Germany: • If you are unsuccessful with your application we will keep hold of your data for 6 months. After this period, we will securely destroy your personal data in accordance with our DE Data Retention Policy. • Optional : Consent to extended retention period: • If you are happy to give us consent to do so, we would like to keep your data for up to 24 months so we can contact you should any future opportunities arise. Please tick the corresponding consent box below if you would like us to retain your data for that extended period. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us via the details below. • Help or queries: • If you have any questions about our privacy policies or the protection of your data please contact our data protection officers by email at [email protected] (UK) or [email protected] (Germany) • Note: The consent period lasts for 2 years • Recruiting Privacy Policy • Submit Application
Benefits
• Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • We ask for your degree and subject here so we can quickly review and prioritise candidates whose academic training is most relevant. • Please write only your degree type, subject, and university (e.g. BSc Computer Science, University of Southampton). • What's your phone number? • Select all that apply (office vs. remote working within the UK): • 4 or 5 days in office per week • 1 to 3 days in office per week • 1 or 2 days in office per month • Mostly remote within the UK (less than 10 days in-office per year) • Fully remote within the UK (no office visits at all) • For example; British Citizen, Indefinite Leave to Remain, Permanent Resident, EU Settled Status, Skilled Worker VISA, Graduate VISA, Student VISA, Global Talent VISA, High Potential Individual (HPI) VISA, Ancestry VISA, Spouse VISA, British National (Overseas) [BN(O)] VISA, etc. • Please state 'No VISA' if you do not currently have the right to work in the UK. • If you will require VISA sponsorhip the UK, please provide details of when, and VISA type. • For some interviews, we use an automated transcription tool to support accurate note-taking and objective evaluation. If we do, transcripts are stored securely in our applicant tracking system in line with our Candidate Privacy Notice. • Yes, I'm happy for interviews to be transcribed • No, I prefer not to be transcribed • Whether it's a new challenge, a change in circumstances, or something else entirely – we want to understand what's prompted the move. • Tell us about your ambitions, the kind of work you want to do, and where you'd like your career to go. • What caught your attention - was it the responsibilities, mission, team, product, culture, or something else? • Whether it’s for your day job or a weekend project, tell us what’s in your toolkit. Select all that apply. • Models in CLI (e.g. Claude Code, Aider, Cline, or similar) • AI-Native IDEs (e.g. Cursor, Windsurf, PearAI, or similar) • Spec-driven development (SDD): Using AI to turn high level specs into working code (e.g. using tools like Kiro, Spec-kit, Tessl Framework or similar) • Advanced Context & Knowledge Graphs (e.g. Cognee, MCP servers, RAG-based codebase indexing) • Locally hosted AI (e.g. Ollama, LM Studio, or similar) • AI Reliability & Maintenance (e.g. building evals, observability, or guardrails for your AI workflows) • None of the above • Is the tool you had in mind not mentioned above? Note it here • Professional or personal – both count. We’d love to hear what the bottleneck or challenge was, what you used or built, and what happened. • I prefer not to answer • Another Gender Identity • Person with disability • Refugee or immigrant • None of the above • Our data retention policy.When you apply for a job at iwoca we will retain your personal data (includes your CV, email correspondence, interview notes and application test scores) for a period of time so that, in the event of a legal claim, we can demonstrate that we did not discriminate against applicants on prohibited grounds and that we conducted the recruitment process in a fair and transparent manner.For candidates applying to our vacancies in the UK:If you are unsuccessful with your application we will keep hold of your data for 6 months. For more information on this, please see our UK candidate privacy notice.For candidates applying to our vacancies in Germany:If you are unsuccessful with your application we will keep hold of your data for 6 months. After this period, we will securely destroy your personal data in accordance with our DE Data Retention Policy.Optional : Consent to extended retention period:If you are happy to give us consent to do so, we would like to keep your data for up to 24 months so we can contact you should any future opportunities arise. Please tick the corresponding consent box below if you would like us to retain your data for that extended period. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us via the details below.Help or queries:If you have any questions about our privacy policies or the protection of your data please contact our data protection officers by email at [email protected] (UK) or [email protected] (Germany) • Our data retention policy. • For candidates applying to our vacancies in the UK: • 6 months • For candidates applying to our vacancies in Germany: • 6 months • Optional : Consent to extended retention period: • Help or queries: • Note: The consent period lasts for 2 years • Recruiting Privacy Policy
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