Product Builder, iwoca

About the Role

You'll own the technology platform for manda – [Employer hidden]'s new SME Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) venture. You'll move at founder pace, with the infrastructure and resources of an established fintech company behind you.

Manda is [Employer hidden]'s newest venture: an SME M&A platform that matches business owners looking to sell with credible, prequalified buyers – and provides acquisition finance where needed.

Today, manda runs on manual workflows. Your job is to build the platform that changes that.

You'll be the first dedicated technical hire on manda, working directly with the venture lead and a small deal team. The deal team owns the commercial relationships – qualifying sellers, matching buyers, managing transactions. You'll sit close to that work, turning what you learn into product decisions. As the venture scales, you'll help define how the technical team grows with it.

As Product Builder, you'll design and ship the platform that takes manda from manual process to scalable product. You'll be part product strategist, part hands-on builder – using AI-native tools and workflows to move at a pace that would normally require a much larger team.

What the job involves

Shape the product

• Partner with the venture lead to translate mission, vision, and strategy into a prioritised roadmap
• Sit with the deal team to understand where the pain is, then turn operational friction into clear, pragmatic product scope
• Work with [Employer hidden]'s core business to ensure the manda customer journey integrates with existing systems
• Design and deliver features at startup speed, using AI tools to prototype, build, and iterate faster than a traditional team
• Contribute hands-on to the codebase – Python, Django, TypeScript, React – setting the standard for code quality, testing, and performance
• Make pragmatic build-vs-buy decisions, integrating third-party tools where they accelerate progress – HubSpot as the deal team's primary CRM, for example

Your first priorities:

• Seller onboarding: How do you take an SME from sign-up to deal-ready in days, not weeks? Build a lean qualification flow that uses [Employer hidden]'s existing data and systems, adding the bespoke elements manda needs
• Data augmentation: [Employer hidden]'s data infrastructure is built for credit. Design the ingestion and integration of new data sources – navigating PII and data governance along the way – so manda can make better M&A-specific decisions and eventually automate them
• Deal management: Set up and integrate HubSpot as the primary CRM for deal tracking, connected to core systems, giving the deal team a single source of truth

Who you are

• Product and engineering: You have experience in product management and software engineering, with the ability to ship features independently across a modern web stack (our stack: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, React)
• AI fluency: You actively use AI coding tools – such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or similar – to write code, automate repeatable work, and accelerate delivery
• Builder experience: You have worked in an early-stage or 0-to-1 environment, making pragmatic build-vs-buy decisions and shipping under real constraints
• Product judgement: You can translate operational friction into clear product scope, working directly with the people closest to the problem, and know when to simplify
• Communication: You communicate technical detail clearly to commercial and non-technical stakeholders, in writing and in person
• Curiosity and experimentation: You actively seek out new tools and ways of working and test them before you're asked to

Desirable

• Systems architecture: You have experience designing and managing complex domain models
• Integrations: You have hands-on experience with third-party integrations, especially CRMs such as HubSpot
• Domain knowledge: You have a background in M&A technology, marketplace platforms, or M&A brokerage
• Data familiarity: You are comfortable working with data analytics or imperfect financial data
• SME context: You understand SME business models and transaction dynamics in the £500k–£10m enterprise-value range

About [Employer hidden]

Online loans for small businesses

201-500 employees

Fintech, B2B, Lending

Company Benefits

• Work where you work best: Twice a year we rent houses in places like Sicily and the French Alps where each team can work together for a week poolside. We champion flexible working in all our teams
• Invest in [Employer hidden]: We want people to be invested in [Employer hidden]'s success so after six months you'll be awarded share options
• Keep yourself healthy: We offer comprehensive health insurance and cash plans. You'll also get gym discounts and we host yoga classes in the office every week
• Start (and end) your day right: Each floor of [Employer hidden] HQ has a fully stocked fridge for breakfast and every Friday we unwind with beers and wine
• Life-work balance: We know your life outside of work comes first. We offer enhanced maternity and paternity leave for new parents plus a nursery benefit. We also have unlimited unpaid leave
• Learning and development: Whether you want to learn to code, experiment with motion design, or beat cognitive biases, you'll have time and budget to invest in your professional development

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