IT & Software

Tech Lead - New Customers Team

iwoca

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this Tech Lead role, you guide the engineering behind how new businesses become iwoca customers, from application to funding. You’ll lead a small team and own the roadmap for moving offer logic from a legacy monolith to multiple services. Your work will translate models and business rules into robust lending decisions in production, with a focus on reliability and adaptability as models evolve. You’ll collaborate with data scientists, product, and strategy to drive customer-first outcomes and measurable lifetime value. This is a chance to shape high-impact customer journeys in fintech and help scale lending for SMEs.

Pay / Benefits
  • flexible working hours
  • medical insurance with Vitality
  • private GP service
  • 25 days holiday plus birthday and leave options
  • sabbatical after four years
  • pension contributions and equity incentive
Responsibilities
  • Lead and line-manage two engineers, shaping the team's work and end-to-end delivery
  • Define and own the engineering roadmap, prioritising migration from monoliths to services
  • Design and implement services that operationalise models and lending rules
  • Build infrastructure to test models on live applications and monitor long-running experiments
  • Ensure production reliability and maintainability as models evolve
  • Collaborate with data scientists and product/strategy to align technical work with business goals
  • Drive legacy migration while preserving dependent systems and data
  • Recruit and grow the team with the right skills and specialties
Key requirements
  • Technical leadership: >=2 years of line management while remaining hands-on
  • Backend engineering: deep OO language expertise, production-grade systems
  • Commercial or product thinking: translate business goals into technical plans with customer impact
  • AI leverage: experience with agentic workflows or using AI to augment engineering work
  • Communication: clear, concise, audience-appropriate explaining of trade-offs
  • clear communication
  • stakeholder collaboration
  • mentoring and coaching
  • Python
  • Django
  • PostgreSQL

Reference: WJ-747_31059463

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