Senior Backend Engineer - Credit Card PaymentsHybrid in London, United KingdomWe're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Payments Infrastructure team.
You’ll design and build the payments platform behind iwoca’s business credit card – the services that approve each payment, monitor transactions for fraud, and pay out cashback.
The companySmall businesses move fast.
Opportunities often don’t wait, and cash flow pressures can appear overnight.
To keep going, and growing, SMEs need finance that’s as flexible and responsive as they are.
That's why we built iwoca.
Our smart technology, data science and five-star customer service ensures business owners can act with the speed, confidence and control they need, exactly when it's needed.
We’ve already cleared the way for 100,000 businesses with more than £4 billion in funding.
Our passionate team is driven to help even more SMEs succeed, through access to better finance and other services that make running a business easier.
Our ultimate mission is to support one million SMEs in their defining moments, creating lasting impact for the communities and economies they drive.
The teamiwoca launched its business credit card in 2026.
It gives small businesses a fast, flexible way to pay for what they need and control their cash flow, alongside iwoca’s loans.
The card is a core part of iwoca’s long-term growth.
The Payments infrastructure team builds iwoca’s card payments platform.
Its job is to approve each payment in moments when a customer uses their card.
The team also builds the platforms that pay out rewards as customers spend and monitor every transaction.
The team is small – a principal engineer, a product manager with a background in payments, and you.
It works closely with iwoca’s ledger, fraud and customer product teams.
The roleAs a senior backend engineer, you’ll own services and projects end to end, and shape the platform’s architecture with the principal engineer, from service boundaries to how authorisation,.