Why iwoca?
iwoca is
breaking down the barriers that stop Europe’s 20 million small
businesses from accessing finance. Traditional bank loans have slow
application processes, inflexible terms and burdensome criteria. In
contrast, we use cutting-edge technology to offer flexible access to
credit with a five minute application process and a decision in hours.
Since
2012, we've lent over £400 million to over 20,000 businesses across
Europe. Our customers include everything from cafés to car dealers,
salons to solicitors. Along the way we have built a sophisticated
technology platform, won numerous awards and grown a fun, and vibrant
team.
However, we’re still near the start of our journey – our aim
is to finance a million small businesses within a decade and so we need
more smart, hands-on people to help us reach this goal.
About the role:
At iwoca we are dedicated to building the smartest lending platform
in the world as we believe that finance should be as simple, seamless
and powerful as electricity. We like to work to an Agile-ish processes,
which means features or projects go live in days or weeks rather than
months or years.
We are very fortunate to have a passionate and
dedicated CTO / Co-founder who ensures that Tech is always at the
forefront of the business so the work you do is always valued. We use
AngularJS for our internal application & React+Redux for our public
facing projects, with focus on adhering to ES6 standards. We are
practical developers who like to use the best tools for the job rather
than the newest, shiniest tools as we believe that performance and code
quality are key.
Right now we are developing new features on our
in-house Angular application which servers our 100+ operations team. You
would be joining a flexible team open to making changes to our current
tech stack, so you will have plenty of opportunity to have an input on
the direction of the business/product. We believe in investing in
research to find the best possible outcome.
Requirements
We are looking for someone with:
- Experience working with JavaScript including ES6 and frameworks (ideally Angular or React - we use both!)
- Experience working in JQuery and/or other JavaScript libraries/bundlers (e.g Webpack, Lodash etc.)
- A good understanding of testing from e2e to unit testing (we use Jasmine, Mocha, Nightwatch, Enzyme etc.)
- Experience in automating tasks, we use Grunt and Gulp
- Experience with CSS3 (including post/pre-processors) and HTML5
- Experience with version control systems, ideally Git
- A member of the JavaScript community and/or experience using D3.js that would be a real bonus!
Benefits
You
will always have a say in the business and have the opportunity to
really make a difference. Joining our team means you will be working on
some cool projects and get the opportunity to really make a difference
to people’s lives. We also help all our employees become top performers
and reward everyone in numerous different ways. Everyone at iwoca is
smart, humble and motivated to do a good job so you are bound to love
working here.
In addition to a competitive salary, we also provide the following:
- A smart, fun and internationally diverse team - together, we represent over 35 different nationalities
- Company retreats in great locations - we have at least two per year in places like the French Alps and by the Spanish seaside
- A
really lovely office in central London - we’re right by Tottenham Court
Road, and close to the bars, theatres and restaurants in Soho and
Fitzrovia
- Pool, ping pong, foosball tables and tournaments,
morning yoga and an ever-growing number of active clubs (you can set up
your own!) - such as climbing, chess, cycling, football, running,
boxing, etc
- Regular novelty perks such as free massages, which can be proposed by anyone in the team
- Plenty of drinks and snacks in our office kitchen
- Cycle-to-work scheme for great value bikes
- Company-wide talks with internal and external speakers
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave and shared parental leave
- Stock options for all employees after 6 months within the business
- 25 days holiday a year, plus all UK Bank holidays, plus a day off for your birthday
- The opportunity to give your time to support a charity of your choice, via a paid volunteering day
- Additional leave so that you can take more time to go travelling or to study, outside of your holiday allowance
- Tickets to exciting tech conferences across Europe
- A calendar of tech meetups hosted on the premises
- Flexible working, including flexible hours and working from home days - all made easy with video conferencing and slack