Software Engineer, Funding Circle
Career Comeback Opportunity
1-5 days a week in office
Building the place where small businesses get the funding they need to win
Job no longer available
Building the place where small businesses get the funding they need to win
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Our mission is to build the place where small businesses get the funding they need to win. We have a huge impact on the businesses that borrow through our platform and the overall economy (last year £6.9bn of GDP generated). With over a decade leading the industry with our award winning core loans platform we are now solving more SME finance challenges as we transform into a multi-product lending platform.
Role
Who you are
- Experienced in at least one major coding language (E.g. Java, Javascript, C#, Python, Clojure, Ruby, Scala, Go)
- Returning from a career break of approximately 6 months to 2 years?
- Looking to return to work on a full-time basis
- A good fit with our values (Be Open, Stand Together, Live The Adventure, Make It Happen, Think Smart)
What the job involves
- This role sits within the Tech teams. The drivers behind our platform – brilliant people working together to create, code, and build the next game changers
- Funding Circle is excited to launch its very own Career Comeback opportunity! The purpose of this is to support talented professionals in re-joining the workplace after an extended career break
- Collaborating as part of an agile cross-functional team, as well as technology chapters
- Building great user experiences for customers
- Delivering innovation through software to automate processes that enable Funding Circle to operate at scale
- Using Clojure, Kafka, React and Ruby currently and built entirely on AWS
Application process
- 30min Call with a friendly in-house recruiter
- 1 Hour Pair Programming Session (Coderpad) in language of choice
- Final Interview (1.5 Hour Pair Programming, 45min System Design & 1 Hour Cultural Interview with an Engineering Manager)
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Funding Circle launched in 2010 and it was the perfect time in the market. After the financial crisis in 2008, financial institutions were hesitant to lend money. Loans to SMEs were at record lows.
This meant that Funding Circle's innovative platform - connecting investors and businesses directly - had immediate product-market fit and growth. Funding Circle remains incredibly focused on small businesses, and this set it apart from other lending platforms. The business has since expanded to the USA.
The company completed its IPO in September 2018 in a challenging economic environment in Europe and the USA. More recently, however, trading in the group’s core UK market has been helped by its participation in the government’s Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme – the company says it has been responsible for a quarter of CBILS loans by volume since it was accredited to join the scheme in April 2020.
Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
40% female employees
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Focus on employee wellbeing
"We've moved to a hybrid way of working at FC. We have lots of employee benefits, from lunch budgets (Just Eat), to retail discounts, gym/health..."
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2017
$98.8m
SERIES F
Apr 2015
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $371.1m
Company benefits
- Annual learning budget
- Private Health insurance covering pre-existing conditions
- 5% Matched Pension
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Access to Wellhub (formally Gym Pass)
- Dental Insurance
- Just Eat for Business 2 days when in the office
Company values
- Think smart
- Obsess over the customer
- Make it happen
- Be open
- Stand together
- Live the adventure
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Founders
Samir Desai
(Non Executive Director)Previously a Consultant at BCG and an Investment Executive at Olivant focused on financial services businesses. Awarded a CBE for services to financial services in 2015.
Lisa Jacobs
(CEO)Lisa is CEO of Funding Circle. She is responsible for driving the company’s strategy and overseeing Funding Circle's operations in the UK and US.
Andrew Mullinger
(Co-founder)Founded Funding Circle in 2009 until hiring his replacement in 2016.
James Meekings
(Co-Founder)Co-founded Funding Circle in 2009 and was UK MD up until to 2019. He now spends his time helping, and investing in, early stage companies.
Sam Hodges
(Co-Founder)Sam founded our US business and was US MD up until 2018.
Diversity & Inclusion at Funding Circle
Poonam Verma (Director of Talent Development, Culture & Belonging)
- It’s in our differences that we find our strengths!
- We celebrate and support the differences that make you, you. So we’re building a culture where difference is valued. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. We truly believe diversity makes us better. We particularly encourage applications from applicants from underrepresented backgrounds. We welcome applicants who may want to work flexibly
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