Senior Software Engineer

We’re redefining consumer lending in the UK, and beyond. Using advanced AI and Open Banking data, we make fair, affordable personal finance available to more people. While traditional lenders rely almost entirely on credit scores, we look at the full financial picture - how much you spend, and what you can afford to repay to build a deeper, more accurate understanding of each customer's unique financial situation.

• Seven or more years professional experience in software engineering

• Proven experience leading the development of significant new functionality

• Proficiency in writing well-structured async Python code with type hints and unit tests

• Experience maintaining codebases for business-critical systems

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Effective communication and collaboration skills

• Proficiency in Git for version control

• Basic knowledge of cloud infrastructure with experience working with at least one of AWS, GCP, or Azure

• Strong SQL skills for efficient data management and retrieval

• Knowledge of lending products and business processes will be a major advantage

• Fluency in both Chinese and English

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  Develop new features backend services that could span any part of the lending lifecycle, from finding and onboarding new customers, to helping underwriters asses their affordability, all the way through to actually paying out and then collecting a loan

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  Participate in the entire SDLC, helping to design changes, review code, build tests, and coordinate deployments

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  Own a part of the platform, and be responsible for the smooth operation of associated business processes, and their KPIs.

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  Collaborate closely with colleagues in Product and Design as well as users (both internal and external) to understand, challenge, and refine requirements

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  Provide second-line support within business hours, helping to troubleshoot and resolve any system issues that impact our customers

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  Supporting junior engineers through PRs and pairing

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  Apply strong SQL skills to troubleshoot and improve the performance of data management and retrieval across our Postgres databases