Tech Lead – New Customers Team

. Lead engineering for how new businesses become iwoca customers, including applications, checks, and offers .

Posted 10/15/2026full-timeLondon • United KingdomSenior💰 £90,000 - £120,000 per yearWebsite

Tools & technologies

DjangoPostgresPython

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead engineering for how new businesses become iwoca customers, including applications, checks, and offers
Lead two engineers and report to the head of engineering for the customer journey
Set the team’s engineering roadmap and prioritize migration from the legacy monolith
Design services that turn models and rules into lending decisions
Keep production services reliable and easy to change as models evolve
Build systems enabling data scientists to test new models on live applications
Measure long-term results of lending decisions and experiments
Line-manage and coach engineers
Set context and help engineers own projects end to end
Determine team skills and composition as it grows
Hire engineers to match team needs

What you’ll need

Led a team of engineers for at least two years, including line management, while remaining hands-on
Deep expertise in at least one object-oriented language
Designed, built, and run customer-facing backend systems in production
Ability to translate business goals into technical plans
Ability to explain technical trade-offs in terms of customer and business impact
Built agentic workflows, or used AI to deliver engineering work beyond individual capacity
Ability to judge AI usefulness and validate AI output before production
Clear, direct, and concise written and verbal communication
Lending, payments, or other financially risky domain experience is a bonus
Experience building controlled, especially long-running, experiments is a bonus
Experience migrating business-critical logic from a legacy monolith is a bonus
Experience working with data scientists from prototype to production is a bonus
Python, Django, and PostgreSQL experience is a bonus
Frontend development experience is a bonus

Comp & perks

Flexible working hours
Medical insurance from Vitality, including discounted gym membership
Private GP service for you, your partner, and your dependents
25 days’ holiday per year
Extra day off for your birthday
Option to buy or sell an additional five days of annual leave
Unlimited unpaid leave
One-month, fully paid sabbatical after four years
External counselling and therapy sessions
3% pension contributions on total earnings
Employee equity incentive scheme
Generous parental leave
Nursery tax benefit scheme
Electric car scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Two company retreats a year
Learning and development budget
Company-wide talks with internal and external speakers
Access to learning platforms like Treehouse
Offices with drinks and snacks
Events and community-led groups, including running groups, padel, and monthly ping-pong and pool competitions