iwoca

We're breaking down the barriers that stop small businesses accessing finance. Traditional banks are slow with rigid terms. We use technology to offer flexible and fast access to credit.

Founded 2012
51-200 employees
  • Insurance
  • Banking, Corporate Finance, & Investing
  • Headquarters address
    247 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 7QX
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    About iwoca:

    iwoca is breaking down the barriers that stop Europe’s 20 million small businesses accessing finance. Traditional banks are slow with rigid terms and burdensome criteria. In contrast, we use technology to offer flexible access to credit with five minute online applications and near-instant decisions.

    Since 2012, we've lent over £700 million to over 40,000 businesses across Europe. Our customers include everything from cafés to car dealers and salons to solicitors. Along the way we‘ve built a sophisticated technology platform, won numerous awards and grown to a smart, vibrant, fun team of over 200 people.

    Despite this, we know we’re still small. Our aim is to fund a million small business within a decade and make a real dent on the funding gap.

    Our tech stack:

    We run our Django-powered site on AWS, using AngularJS for our internal application & React+Redux for our public facing projects, with focus on adhering to ES6 standards. We use asynchronous tools (Twisted, Celery) for time-consuming tasks and scientific libraries (numpy, scipy, pandas) for risk aspects. Application orchestration is done with Docker and Ansible and our monitoring is set up using StatsD, Elasticsearch-Logstash-Kibana.

    https://github.com/iwoca

    Our tech team:

    Our tech team consists of 45 Developers across Frontend, Backend and Analytics. We all play a significant role in specifying the problem and thinking through all possible solutions. As our CTO also happens to be one of our Co-founders, tech really is at the forefront of the business. Our development cycle is tight with Agile-ish processes that means features or projects go live in days or weeks rather than months or years.
    Our team consists of some of the best ping-pong players on the planet (this might be a slight exaggeration, but they are good) and we have lost count of the number of languages we collectively speak within the team. English, 'Northern', French, German, Polish, Russian, Latvian, Italian, Spanish etc.

    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 with some cool tech 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.

    Benefits

    Everyone at iwoca is smart, humble and motivated to do a good job so you are bound to love working here. Apart from a great working environment we also have some great perks, of which here are a few:

    • Games room with a decent Pool and Ping Pong table
    • Great development programmes (paid conferences around Europe)
    • Flexible hours
    • Plenty of space to chill out and a quite room
    • Plenty of drinks and snack (healthy and unhealthy)
    • Subsidised gym membership and restaurant discounts in
    • Soho Cycle2Work scheme for great value bikes
    • Various sports teams including football and climbing
    • A super smart team of really nice people
    • Company retreats to great destinations
    • Ability to work from home occasionally

    Tech stack

    Python, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, AWS, Django, Angular, React, Redux, Twisted, Celery, NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Docker, Ansible, StatsD, Logstash, Kibana
    iwoca - Tech Retreat (November 2016)
    iwoca - We like Ping Pong
    iwoca - We like to climb
    iwoca - Company Photo