Tech Lead, Shared Backend Platforms - Hybrid/UK Remote

Iwoca; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Medical insurance

Pension contributions

Equity

Sabbatical

Parental leave

Job summary

iwoca is seeking a Tech Lead for the Funnel Platform to own and ship shared backend services used by multiple teams across the UK. You will stay hands-on in code while line-managing two engineers and setting design and testing standards for reliability and performance.

With input from customer journey leaders, you’ll decide what to build, prioritize work without a product manager, and use data to justify shared-service initiatives that speed lending decisions.

Qualifications

• Led engineers as a tech lead for around two years while staying hands-on in the code.
• Built and ran backend services or frameworks that other engineering teams use and contribute to.
• Experience with at least one backend language and distributed systems in production.
• Ability to set priorities without a product manager and understand business impact.
• Experience applying AI to tooling or migrations.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain existing services and new ones from design to production.
• Shape design and testing standards for shared services and review changes by other teams.
• Improve services used by customer journey teams to speed their work.
• Use data to persuade teams to back shared-service work that helps all teams.
• Line-manage the team’s engineers and mentor them.

Skills

Technical leadership

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Problem finding

AI leverage

Tools

Python

Django

Job description

iwoca is seeking a Tech Lead for the Funnel Platform to own and ship shared backend services used by multiple teams across the UK. You will stay hands-on in code while line-managing two engineers and setting design and testing standards for reliability and performance.

With input from customer journey leaders, you’ll decide what to build, prioritize work without a product manager, and use data to justify shared-service initiatives that speed lending decisions.