Lendable
Finance / FinServ
PythonEngineer
Neural analysis suggests this role is
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“Python Engineer at Lendable. Skills: Python, FastAPI, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes. designing and integrating powerful new APIs that genuinely improve our customers' experience. optimising our lending platforms for performance and scale”
What You'll Achieve.
make machines do the heavy lifting
Industry & Context.
relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status quo
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Strong, modern Python development experience, A good understanding of a modern web framework, FastAPI, automatic testing skills (unit, integration, functional)
Nice to Have
worked in a cross functional environment
What You'll Do.
designing and integrating powerful new APIs that genuinely improve our customers' experience
optimising our lending platforms for performance and scale
diving into the kind of deep architectural conversations that engineers get excited about
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
collaborative group that's always pushing the boundaries of what's possible; highly collaborative team; cross functional environment
Full Job Description
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 newest unicorns with a team of just over 700 people - Among the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK - Profitable since 2017 - Backed by top investors including Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs - Loved by customers with the best reviews in the market (4.9 across 10,000s of reviews on Trustpilot https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/lendable.co.uk) 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 1. Take ownership across a broad remit. You are trusted to make decisions that drive a material impact on the direction and success of Lendable from day 1 2. Work in small teams of exceptional people, who are relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status quo 3. Build the best technology in-house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting About the role 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. No two days look the same here. We're building something great, and we're looking for the right people to grow with u
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