Tech Lead, New Customers — Flexible Hours, Lending Platform

iwoca; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Medical insurance

Private GP service

25 days' holiday + birthday day off

Company equity incentive

Sabbatical after four years

Counselling and therapy access

Pension contributions

Parental leave

Nursery tax benefit

Electric car scheme

Two company retreats

Job summary

iwoca is seeking a Tech Lead to guide two engineers and own the engineering roadmap for the customer journey from application to lending. You will migrate offer logic from a legacy monolith into distributed services, while leading the team and collaborating with data scientists.

You will design services, ensure reliability, and drive experiments and growth. The role combines hands-on coding with hiring and coaching as iwoca scales.

Qualifications

• Lead a team of engineers and own the engineering roadmap.
• Design services turning models and rules into lending decisions.
• Collaborate with data scientists from prototype to production.

Responsibilities

• Shape what the team builds and decide deployment order.
• Architect scalable backend services and data interfaces.
• Build experiments and long-running tests with data scientists.
• Line-manage engineers and grow the team’s capabilities.
• Migrate legacy logic out of a monolith while preserving functionality.

Skills

Technical leadership

Backend engineering

Python

Communication

AI leverage

Tools

Python

Django

PostgreSQL

Job description

iwoca is seeking a Tech Lead to guide two engineers and own the engineering roadmap for the customer journey from application to lending. You will migrate offer logic from a legacy monolith into distributed services, while leading the team and collaborating with data scientists.

You will design services, ensure reliability, and drive experiments and growth. The role combines hands-on coding with hiring and coaching as iwoca scales.