Python Engineer

We'd love for you to become a key part of our Python Infrastructure team; a collaborative group that's always pushing the boundaries of what's possible.

In this role, you'll get to do it all: designing and integrating powerful new APIs that genuinely improve our customers' experience, optimising our lending platforms for performance and scale, and diving into the kind of deep architectural conversations that engineers get excited about.

About Lendable

About Lendable

• Lendable is on a mission to build the world's best technology to help people get credit and save money.
• We're building one of the world’s leading fintech companies and are off to a strong start:
• One of the UK’s most exciting unicorns with a team of over 800 people Among the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK
• Profitable since
• 2017

Backed by top investors including Balderton Capital and

Goldman Sachs with the best reviews in the market (4.9 across 10,000s of reviews on Trustpilot

So far, we’ve rebuilt the Big Three consumer finance products from scratch:

loans, credit cards and car finance. We get money into our customers’ hands in minutes instead of days.

We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do: we’re going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions worth of financial products are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes.

Join us if you want to you are trusted to make decisions that drive a material impact on the direction and success of Lendable from day 1

Lendies are relentlessly resourceful. We challenge the status quo to solve problems and find smarter solutions

Build the best technology in-house: we use new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting

No two days look the same here.

We're building something great, and we're looking for the right people to grow with us. If that sounds like you, we can't wait to hear from you.

Our stack is built on Python and FastAPI, deployed via Docker and Kubernetes on AWS, with ArgoCD handling our continuous delivery pipeline.

Responsibilities

• Loved by customers

Requirements

• Strong, modern Python development experience
• A good understanding of a modern web framework - FastAPI

Strong automatic testing skills (unit, integration, functional)

• A keen desire to want to learn and input into a highly collaborative team
• If you’ve worked in a cross functional environment, it would be a plus but not needed

Benefits

• Winning team: the opportunity to scale up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies
• Flexible working: flexible approach tailored to each role. Hybrid roles require three days in-office weekly; fully remote roles include regular opportunities for in-person connection through socials and off-sites
• Socials & connection: opportunities and events to come together, socialise, and get to know each other beyond the office walls
• Health coverage: support for your physical and mental wellbeing, including private health cover

long-term financial wellbeing through retirement savings plans

• earn a competitive bonus when you refer successful new team members
• enjoy a fully stocked kitchen, plus complimentary lunches prepared by in-house chefs on in-office days at select locations
• cycle-to-work and electric vehicle salary sacrifice schemes available in select locations

Interview process

• A quick phone call with one of the team
• A short coding exercise to complete in your own time
• Technical Video Interview for 60 mins
• Meet the team you’ll work with daily
• Culture interview for 30mins

Please note

• The availability and details of specific benefits vary by location and role. For more information, please speak to your Talent Partner.
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