Funding Circle

The role We are looking for a Data Engineering Manager to head up a critical Analytics Engineering team. What will you be doing? Team Leadership & Management: Lead, manage, and mentor a team of Analytics Engineers, fostering a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive team culture. Oversee the recruitment, onboarding, and performance management processes for the team. Set clear goals and expectations, providing regular feedback and guidance to team members. Delivery Management: Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of projects within the analytics engineering roadmap for the team, ensuring timely and high-quality outcomes. Manage the team's backlog, prioritise tasks effectively. Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for team delivery. Stakeholder Engagement & Management: Build strong relationships and collaborate effectively with key stakeholders, including technical and business leaders. Understand stakeholder needs and translate them into actionable requirements for the data team. Communicate the team's roadmap, progress, challenges, and successes clearly and proactively to technical and non-technical audiences. Engineer Development & Mentoring: Actively invest in the career development of your team members through coaching, mentoring, and identifying growth opportunities. Create personalized development plans and support Analytics Engineers in acquiring new skills and expertise. Foster a culture of continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and technical curiosity within the team. What we're looking for Proven experience managing and leading a high-performing Analytics Engineering team in a product-driven environment. Experience in Financial Services. Proven track record of mentoring and developing Analytics / Data Engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and professional growth. Proven track record of successfully delivering Analytics Engineering projects with a focus on trustworthy, high-quality data. Demonstrable experience in managing project delivery, including planning, prioritisation, and execution. Experience with Agile/Scrum. Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences. Excellent problem solving skills and the ability to translate complex business requirements into technical requirements. Ideally you would have the following: Solid understanding of modern data platform architectures, DBT and Snowflake. (data warehousing, ETL/ELT processes, data orchestration, streaming data, data governance). A proactive approach to identifying and implementing improvements related to data pipeline reliability, data quality and performance. Why join us We back you to build an incredible career. As a flexible first employer, we use a "best of both" approach. We'll see you in our London office to collaborate - with barista coffee and subsidised Just Eat lunches on us! Our Circler Proposition focuses on five areas: Flexibility: We provide a benefit allowance you can tailor to your own life and family. Health: This includes private medical and dental, health assessments, and access to a digital GP. Wealth: We offer life assurance, share schemes, and financial coaching. Development: You get a dedicated annual learning allowance to help you level up. Lifestyle: We have electric car and cycle-to-work schemes, plus season ticket loans. We also have award winning parental leave policies. We're here to support you through the big life moments, from fertility treatments to new additions to the family.

We're on a mission to back the UK's small businesses like no one else Small businesses are the backbone of the economy, and we're here to help them win. We've built a platform that uses clever data to get them the funding they need in minutes, not weeks. At Funding Circle, we have the restless energy of a fintech start-up with the stability of a public company. It's a unique mix that gives Circlers the autonomy to take ownership and the scale to make an impact that truly counts. We're a high-performing team that chooses to lift each other up. We challenge, we champion, and we have each other's backs - because we know that when we stand together, we move faster and build better. The impact is real: Last year alone, the businesses on our platform generated £7.2bn for the UK economy Come and join a mission that matters! Read our Impact Report See our Trustpilot The role London (Hybrid) 2 days in the office Competitive Salary + Benefits We are looking for an experienced React Native Engineer who wants to work on an exciting new product, within an already successful financial company. You are comfortable operating in an environment of fast pace and uncertainty and thrive in solving hard problems within a cross-functional team. As a key member of our engineering team, you will play a vital role in building and scaling our Mobile App, empowering businesses to access flexible financing solutions. Your passion for technology and your ability to solve complex problems will be instrumental in driving our mission forward. Collaborating as part of an agile cross functional team, as well as technology guilds Building great user experiences for customers Delivering innovation through software Implement business functionality, using React Native, for both iOS and Android Proactively problem solving, identifying and confidently mitigating any risks, issues or control weaknesses that arise in your day-to-day Participate in code reviews, technical discussions and team collaboration Mentor your colleagues Write unit, integration and end-to-end tests to ensure code is well tested QA features to find bugs, usability issues and performance concerns What we're looking for We value deep expertise, but a growth mindset and good energy are what really make our team click. We're a group that chooses to lift each other up and think smart every day. Commercial experience with React.js, React Native and the associated ecosystem Strong mobile automated testing experience (unit, integration & end-to-end) Good JavaScript knowledge, ideally including TypeScript Experience with continuous delivery, build pipelines and app releases (both App Store and Play Store) Familiarity with mobile ecosystem tooling such as Firebase. Familiarity with Gradle, XCode and other native build tools Ability to work with REST APIs and third-party services/libraries Solid understanding of software engineering principles Experience with code version control Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal We're building a place where everyone truly feels they belong. Even if your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement, we'd still love to hear from you. Why join us? We back you to build an incredible career. As a flexible-first employer, we use a "best of both" approach. We'll see you in our London office to collaborate - with barista coffee and subsidised Just Eat lunches on us! Our Circler Proposition focuses on five areas: Flexibility: We provide a benefit allowance you can tailor to your own life and family. Health: This includes private medical and dental, health assessments, and access to a digital GP. Wealth: We offer life assurance, share schemes, and financial coaching. Development: You get a dedicated annual learning allowance to help you level up. Lifestyle: We have electric car and cycle-to-work schemes, plus season ticket loans. We also have award-winning parental leave policies. We're here to support you through the big life moments, from fertility treatments to new additions to the family. Ready to join a mission that matters? We'd love to chat!

We're on a mission to back the UK's small businesses like no one else Small businesses are the backbone of the economy, and we're here to help them win. We've built a platform that uses clever data to get them the funding they need in minutes, not weeks. At Funding Circle, we have the restless energy of a fintech start up with the stability of a public company. It's a unique mix that gives Circlers the autonomy to take ownership and the scale to make an impact that truly counts. We're a high-performing team that chooses to lift each other up. We challenge, we champion, and we have each other's backs - because we know that when we stand together, we move faster and build better. The impact is real: Last year alone, the businesses on our platform generated £7.2bn for the UK economy. The role London (Hybrid) 2 days in the office Competitive Salary + Benefits You'll make a real difference for our customers and your team from day one. We believe the fastest way to grow is by doing, so we give you the ownership to run with things and see real-time results. This is a hands on applied Data Science role. You will be architecting and building the algorithms behind our products. Your primary focus will be designing Agentic workflows, crafting tool definitions that allow LLMs to interact with our internal systems, and rigorously evaluating performance. While GenAI is the main focus of this role, traditional ML and algorithms will also be needed. You will bridge the gap between experimental proof of concepts and production reality, establishing the evaluation frameworks and best practices that will eventually enable teams across the entire business to build their own GenAI products. The responsibilities of the role include: GenAI application creation: Design and implement the core logic for GenAI agents. You will create "tools" that the LLMs use to take action. Evaluation and quality: Develop systematic evaluation of GenAI systems to build frameworks and methodologies. You will create evaluation datasets to measure accuracy, reliability, and tool use, ensuring our models meet business standards before deployment. Data analysis and Machine Learning: Analyse business data, identify opportunities for predictive modelling. Design, implement and test predictive ML algorithms. Prototyping: Rapidly build functional application prototypes to demonstrate value to stakeholders and validate technical feasibility before full scale engineering begins. Prompt engineering and logic: Optimise system prompts and reasoning chains to build customised GenAI applications. Collaboration: Work closely with engineers and translate your prototypes into production services. Write code that is modular and readable so other teams can use and benefit from what you build. Work with non technical teams and build technology that solves their problems. Responsible AI: Implement guardrails and adversarial testing to ensure our AI agents act ethically and securely, adhering to Funding Circle's Responsible AI framework. Mentoring and guidance: Support mid level team members, use your experience to unlock situations and provide clarity to the rest of the team. What we're looking for We value deep expertise, but a growth mindset and good energy are what really make our team click. We're a group that chooses to lift each other up and think smart every day. We are looking for a Data Scientist with a strong engineering mindset. This is a Senior role, we are looking for someone with 5+ years experience and demonstrable deep expertise in the areas outlined below. You will be expected to be proficient from day one, but will also be given the opportunity to develop in areas of lower strength. Applied GenAI experience: Hands on experience building applications where LLMs interact with external data or APIs. You understand the nuances of tool use, and agentic concepts such as Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Strong python skills: You write clean, reusable, and tested Python code. You are comfortable moving out of Jupyter Notebooks and into IDEs, and you can collaborate in a Git based workflow. Evaluation rigor: You have experience or a strong understanding of how to evaluate non deterministic and ML models systematically. Data fluency: Strong SQL and data manipulation skills. You can prepare data for R&D, you can build and evaluate predictive ML models. Curiosity: The AI landscape changes regularly. Roles and responsibilities are constantly evolving. You are excited to keep up to date with the latest advances in GenAI (e.g on agentic patterns, third party libraries and tools) and pragmatically apply them to business problems. Business empathy and problem solving: You excel at understanding the needs and pain points of business users, even when described in non technical terms. You are skilled at asking the right questions to get to the root of a problem and translating those requirements into effective technical solutions that deliver business value. We're building a place where everyone truly feels they belong. Even if your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement, we'd still love to hear from you. Why join us We back you to build an incredible career. As a flexible first employer, we use a "best of both" approach. We'll see you in our London office to collaborate - with barista coffee and subsidised Just Eat lunches on us! Our Circler Proposition focuses on five areas: Flexibility: We provide a benefit allowance you can tailor to your own life and family. Health: This includes private medical and dental, health assessments, and access to a digital GP. Wealth: We offer life assurance, share schemes, and financial coaching. Development: You get a dedicated annual learning allowance to help you level up. Lifestyle: We have electric car and cycle to work schemes, plus season ticket loans. We also have award winning parental leave policies. We're here to support you through the big life moments, from fertility treatments to new additions to the family. Ready to join a mission that matters? We'd love to chat!

A leading financial technology firm based in London is seeking an experienced React Native Engineer to join their engineering team. In this hybrid role, you will help build and scale their Mobile App, empowering small businesses with flexible financing solutions. Ideal candidates will have strong experience in React and React Native along with excellent communication skills. The company offers competitive salaries and benefits, promoting an inclusive workplace culture.

Description: Who are we? We want to help small businesses win. That's why we're here. We connect small business owners to investors - to create jobs, help families and power economies - because we believe that people are made to do more. And we want to help them get the finance they need to thrive, creating thousands of jobs as they drive the economy forward. . So, we created the leading online marketplace for small business loans. Our investors have lent £11.4 billion in 143,000 loans to 100,000 small business owners. In a single year, we unlocked 135,000 jobs and contributed £10 billion to the global economy. There's never been a better time to join! Be part of the team that changes everything. Let's build the place where small businesses can get the funding they need to win and leave a legacy behind, forever. What will you be doing? Assess applications using our underwriting framework, reviewing data from various internal and external sources Apply consistent attention to detail, helping to maintain the credit quality of our loan book whilst achieving our commercial Provide a best-in-class experience for our borrowers by reviewing all loan applications efficiently and in accordance with our internal quality standards Liaise with various internal stakeholders on applications in progress, dealing with amendments as requested and escalating issues as appropriate Provide feedback and recommendations on how we can improve our assessment process and borrower experience Are you? Keen to develop further in a credit team after some experience in credit analysis (Ideally SME lending) An inquisitive mind-set, openness to change, willingness to challenge the status quo and a great work ethic Strong analytical, decision-making, and communication skills Why join us? We're gearing up for our biggest chapter yet - and it's being driven by everyone. We think of ourselves as the career launchpad. A place to develop yourself, fast. Real work. Real experience. Real opportunities to collect skills. Think big remits and huge ownership to make great things happen. Yes, it's target-driven and high-octave - but we like to play hard too. That's what makes us, us. Our vibrant culture is built around potential and creating a place where you can really be you. We keep it agile and open. All voices heard. Because we believe great ideas come from everywhere. If you show skill and are willing, we'll back you all the way. This is the place for you to build something incredible. 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. Want to Build The Incredible? We'd love to hear from you.