Senior Engineer

at  Funding Circle UK

WHO ARE WE?

Our mission is to build the place where small businesses get the funding they need to win.
We do this by uniting cutting-edge data and technology to deliver an unbeatable customer experience. With a decade of expertise under our belt, we’ve built a game-changer of a platform that’s reshaping the landscape of SME lending. Say goodbye to lengthy loan applications and hello to lightning-fast decisions!
We have a huge impact on the businesses that borrow through our platform, the communities they serve and the overall economy (last year £6.9bn of GDP generated and 106,000 jobs created!). You can read our full Impact Report here: https://www.fundingcircle.com/uk/impact
Engineering at Funding Circle ️
At the heart of our platform’s success lies our extraordinary engineering & data teams. They are the architects and the driving force solving the technical challenges that grant 75% of our borrowers an instant decision. Technology is not just integral; it’s pivotal to our mission, ensuring that our multi product platform continues to be the leader in cutting edge fintech products and reshaping the SME lending landscape, one small business at a time.
We’re all about boosting your career here at Funding Circle, and we’ve designed a comprehensive framework to guide you along the way. We encourage our team to reimagine their career progression, shifting away from conventional paths, and providing opportunities to explore both leadership and individual contributor (IC) roads.
At Funding Circle, we celebrate and support the differences that make you, you. We’re proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and affirmative-action employer. We truly believe that diversity makes us better.

THE ROLE

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer.
The driving force behind the world’s leading platform for small business lending is our engineering team. We are a diverse group from more than 25 different countries and cultures who bring together a wide range of backgrounds and experience (from music to aerospace engineering).

WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING?

• Working on a Funding Circle critical system as part of a team of Engineers
• Responsible for technical quality of a set of systems run for FC
• Responsible for ensuring these systems follow the agreed principles and architecture defined at Funding Circle
• Delivering innovation through software to automate processes that enable Funding Circle to operate at scale
• We work with a variety of tech, but you should expect to be mainly working with, Ruby, Python and Kafka all built entirely on AWS via Terraform
• Supporting our production systems
• Proactively problem solving, identifying and confidently mitigating any risks, issues or control weaknesses that arise in your day-to-day responsibilities