Senior Python Engineer

Who you are

• You have 8+ years of professional experience as a software engineer
• Solid experience with Python in a web application context. You have some experience with web frameworks like FastAPI, Django or Flask. We use FastAPI
• Experience with Javascript/Typescript and a modern JS framework such as React, Angular or Vue.js. We generally use React & NextJS. You can build a frontend that's good enough for internal tooling
• Strong engineering principles & practices: design patterns, testing, clean code and a good reviewer
• Previous experience working in a product-focused team
• A keen desire to want to learn and input into a highly collaborative team
• You use AI tools like Copilot, Cursor, Claude or others in your day-to-day coding
• Exposure to Domain Driven Design, Message-Driven Systems and Event Sourcing
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS
• SQL, and finding your way around data schemas
• Shipping containerised software with Argo, Kubernetes, Docker and Terraform
• If you don’t meet all of these, please apply anyway!

What the job involves

• We’re looking for a full-stack Python engineer to join our Central Operations team
• Central Ops sits across our core products (Cards, Loans and Motor), focusing on shared operational challenges and opportunities. We build a mix of internally facing web applications and robust automations to help our Operations teams deliver great outcomes for customers, efficiently and at scale
• It’s a broad space: Operations makes up roughly half of our employee headcount and covers everything from day-to-day customer support up to complex areas like Fraud and Fincrime prevention. As our customer base grows rapidly, our role is to help ops keep pace without relying solely on headcount growth
• We make intelligent, pragmatic use of AI where it adds real value, working closely with Product, Data Science and Analytics to deploy solutions that genuinely support our ops agents
• You’ll have real ownership from an engineering perspective, shipping features that are used daily by Ops teams. It’s an evolving space at Lendable, and what you build will help shape both our tools and our technical direction
• Some examples of things we’ve built recently:
• Rebuilt our Ops QA admin system from the ground up, replacing an off-the-shelf tool with something tailored to our needs
• Deployed a pipeline to summarise customer calls into concise notes using LLMs, automatically surfaced in ops admin panels — removing the need for manual note-writing
• More than doubled the number of complaints processed by agents through a combination of targeted AI automation and improved UX

The application process

• A 30 minute introductory call
• Take Home Task
• Technical Interview
• Cultural/behavioural interview

Benefits

• 💸 Best-in-class compensation, including equity
• 🏠 You can work from home every Monday and Friday if you wish - on the other days we all come together IRL to be together, build and exchange ideas (hybrid)
• 🍲 Our in-house chefs prepare fresh, healthy lunches in the office every Tuesday-Thursday
• 🏥 Comprehensive private health insurance (including dental, optometry and general wellbeing)
• 🚗 EV car scheme (Octopus)
• 🚲 Cycle to work scheme
• 🧮 Pension
• 🌴 25 days of annual leave - excluding bank holidays
• 🎊 Multiple opportunities to socialise with your team and the wider company
• 🏋️‍♀️ 50% off gym memberships at Virgin Active and Nuffield (via Vitality health insurance)
• 💻 Equipment provided for you to do your best work!