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Wayflyer

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Backend Software Engineer

🗓️ Posted 2026-02-25 Remote Europe Fulltime Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market 5,000 EUR–8,000 EUR/mo

About the Company

Unlock your business's full potential with access to purpose-built financing. Unlocking the full potential of ambitious businesses worldwide with 5k- 20m of purpose-built working capital. Today's fast-growing businesses need a capital provider that keeps pace with their ambitions. Traditional financing options are slow, cumbersome, and often out of reach. That's why we built Wayflyer. Our unique technology can assess your growth potential to deliver tailored financing options in minutes, not months. Since launching in April 2020, we've deployed over 6 billion to 6,000+ businesses globally, backed by leading investors like QED, Left Lane Capital and DST Global. We're a fast-growing, venture-backed startup with big ambitions. From our offices in Dublin, London, Berlin, New York, Charlotte and Sydney, we're serving consumer brands, retail outlets, software companies, service providers and beyond. Financial Services Specialties: eCommerce, Shopify, Funding, DTC, Wholesale, Amazon, Financing, Small Business Loans, Banking

Responsibilities

  • ● About Wayflyer
  • ● Today's small businesses need a capital provider that keeps pace with their growth ambitions. Traditional financing options are slow, cumbersome and often out of reach. That's why we built Wayflyer.
  • ● Our technology allows us to assess businesses in minutes, generate financing offers that reflect their growth potential and send funds in as little as 24 hours. To date, we've deployed over 6bn to thousands of businesses worldwide, backed by Tier 1 banks like J.P. Morgan.
  • ● You'll be collaborating with ambitious colleagues from around the world. We have offices in Dublin, London, New York, Charlotte, Berlin and Sydney.
  • ● The challenge
  • ● We assess businesses in minutes and send funds in as little as 24 hours. The systems that make that possible need to be fast, reliable, and built to scale as we grow into new markets.
  • ● What you'll actually do
  • ● Design and develop scalable backend services using Python and Django, focusing on our core financial products
  • ● Build and maintain RESTful APIs that power our customer-facing applications and internal tools
  • ● Implement robust data models and database schemas to support our financial services infrastructure
  • ● Write clean, testable code with comprehensive unit and integration tests
  • ● Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement new features and improvements
  • ● Optimize application performance and ensure high availability of our services
  • ● Participate in code reviews and contribute to technical documentation
  • ● Monitor and maintain production systems, ensuring reliability and security
  • ● Who thrives here
  • ● You should be comfortable making and defending technical decisions, while remaining open to feedback and alternative approaches. You'll need to balance technical excellence with business needs and help guide the team toward pragmatic solutions.
  • ● You excel at stakeholder management and can effectively communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences. You're proactive in identifying and addressing potential issues before they become problems.
  • ● We look for candidates with most or all of the below traits that can point to real experience applying them.
  • ● Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience