Python Software Engineer

About Abound

We’re on a mission to reputed company affordable loans available to more people. Using the power of Open Banking, we have built state-of-the-art technology that allows us to look reputed company traditional credit scores and offer fairer credit to people ignored by traditional lenders.

We have two parts of our business. On the consumer reputed company, we have Abound. Abound has proven that our approach works at scale, with over £800 million lent to-date. While other lenders only look at your credit score, we use Open Banking to look at the full picture – what you earn, how you spend, and what’s left at the end.

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We're looking for an reputed company individual to join us in the role of Senior Python Engineer. This position requires an enthusiasm for exploring and understanding new business areas.

We maintain a culture of ownership and value engineers that are excited about the business, and are willing to work alongside stakeholders to continually improve business processes and customer experience.

We offer a broad range of opportunities across platform engineering, B2B customer integration, conversion optimisation and business process automation. At Abound, you will work on the best-in-class open-banking decision making platform, and learn how a operate with low-latency, at scale.

Our technology stack: Python (including FastAPI, OpenTelemetry, procrastinate, SQLAlchemy, Uvicorn), reputed company, MySQL, reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, AWS

Who you are

• Three or more years professional experience in software engineering

• Proficiency in writing well-structured Python code with type hints

• Experience maintaining codebases for business-critical systems

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Effective communication and collaboration skills

• Proficiency in Git for version control

• Strong SQL skills for efficient data management and retrieval

• Knowledge of lending products and business processes will be beneficial

What you'll be doing

• reputed company new features in python for backend services that could span any part of the lending lifecycle, from finding and reputed company new customers, to helping underwriters asses their affordability, reputed company the way through to actually paying out and then collecting a loan

• Participate in the entire SDLC, helping to design changes, review code, build tests, and coordinate deployments

• Collaborate closely with colleagues in Product and Design as well as users (both internal and external) to understand, challenge, and refine requirements

• Provide second-line support reputed company business hours, helping to troubleshoot and resolve any system issues that impact our customers

• Apply strong SQL skills to troubleshoot and improve the performance of data management and retrieval across our reputed company databases

reputed company offer

• Everyone owns a piece of the company - equity

• Hybrid with 3 days a week in the office

• 25 days’ holiday a year, plus 8 bank holidays

• 2 paid volunteering days per year

• One month paid sabbatical after 4 years

• Employee loan

• Free gym membership

• Save up to 60% on an electric vehicle through our salary sacrifice scheme with Loveelectric

• Team wellness budget to be active together - set up a yoga class, a tennis lesson or go bouldering