\nBest Egg is a market-leading, tech-enabled financial platform helping people build financial confidence through a variety of installment lending solutions and financial health tools. We aim to help customers make smart financial decisions and stay on track, so they can be money confident no matter what life throws at them.\n\n\nWe offer a flexible work experience, top-tier benefits, and growth opportunities in a culture built on our core values:\n\n\nPut People First – We foster an inclusive, flexible, and fun workplace.\nCreate Clarity – Open communication drives trust and results.\nGet Things Done – We focus, prioritize, and deliver with excellence.\nDeliver with Heart – We lead with kindness, humility, and strong teamwork.\nListen to Our Customers – Their needs drive our innovation.\n\n\nWe are looking for collaborative, innovative team players who like to solve problems. If you're inspired by inspiring others and want to make a real difference, Best Egg is the place for you.\n\n\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse, inclusive team.\n\n\nThe Lead Software Engineer II is responsible for developing robust, scalable backend services that power the Best Egg Financial Health and Best Egg native app platforms. This role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining server-side application logic using Python in a cloud-native AWS environment.\nThe Best Egg native app enables customers to view and service their loans, providing secure and easy access to account information, payment management, and other self-service features. It is a critical part of our digital experience and customer engagement strategy. Best Egg Financial Health is a judgment-free, financial safe space where customers gain practical insights into how their financial decisions impact their ability to access money.\nYou'll be working closely with a highly skilled and growing team to transform how customers interact with credit by enabling data-driven tools such as financial forecasting, budgeting recommendations, loan servicing, and analytics services that support an intelligent and intuitive user experience.\n\n\n\nDuties & Responsibilities\n* Develop and maintain backend systems using Python in an AWS cloud-native environment.\n* Design and implement scalable RESTful APIs and services that support mobile and web applications.\n* Develop and support backend services used by the Best Egg Financial Health and Best Egg native app platforms.\n* Integrate with data pipelines and analytics services to power real-time financial tools.\n* Ensure systems are monitored, secure, and reliable using observability and logging best practices.\n* Collaborate cross-functionally with front-end developers, mobile engineers, DevOps, data scientists, and product managers.\n* Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and team ceremonies within Agile/Scrum processes.\n* Write clear technical documentation and contribute to design discussions and sprint planning.\n\n\n\nMinimum Requirements\n* We’re looking for a backend engineer with a strong Python background and a few years of experience building reliable, cloud-based systems. The right person is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, enjoys solving problems, and can clearly communicate ideas with both technical and non-technical teammates.\n* Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience\n* 3–5 years of backend development experience using Python\n* Strong experience with cloud-native development in AWS (e.g., Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, RDS)\n* Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform)\n* Experience building and consuming REST APIs\n* Experience supporting mobile app backends is a strong plus\n* Understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) workflows\n* Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (ECS or Kubernetes) is a plus\n* Ability to write clean, maintainable, testable code\n* Ability to create design docs, mockups, and lead whiteboard discussions\n* Track record solving problems and delivering high-quality solutions\n\nLeadership:\n* The ideal candidate demonstrates strong technical leadership, takes ownership of their work, and thrives in cross-functional collaboration. We are seeking an individual who is organized, self-motivated, and committed to mentoring others.\n* Demonstrated technical leadership, including coaching and mentoring team members\n* Ability to take ownership of significant features or services from design through deployment\n* Comfortable interacting with colleagues across engineering, product, design and test engineering\n* High self-efficacy, well-organized, and able to manage multiple priorities effectively\n* Passionate about reducing manual and repetitive work when designing and building backend tools and infrastructure\n\nCulture:\n* The ideal candidate aligns with Best Egg’s core values and culture.  At Best Egg, we’re proud to support millions of people navigating their financial lives. We hold ourselves to high standards—in our work, our collaboration, and how we treat one another. Our team leads with accountability and a shared commitment to our values, customers, and communities.\n* People-first mindset with a focus on inclusion, collaboration, and clear communication\n* Driven to prioritize what matters and deliver results with urgency and excellence\n* Team-oriented, and always listening to improve the customer experience\n* Advocate and practitioner of Agile methodologies\n* Strong communication skills, both written and verbal\n* Values knowledge sharing and continuous improvement\n\n\n\n\n\n$90,000 - $120,000 a yearIn addition to semi-monthly salary payments, this position is also eligible for an annual incentive bonus based on individual and company performance. Yearly incentive bonus target is 20%.\n\nEmployee Benefits\nBest Egg offers many additional benefits for our employees, including (but not limited to):\n·       Pre-tax and post-tax retirement savings plans with a competitive company matching\n program\n·       Generous paid time-off plans including vacation, personal/sick time, paid short-- \n term and long-term disability leaves, paid parental leave, and paid company \n holidays \n·       Multiple health care plans to choose from, including dental and vision options\n·       Flexible Spending Plans for Health Care, Dependent Care, and Health \n Reimbursement Accounts\n·       Company-paid benefits such as life insurance, wellness platforms, employee\n assistance programs, and Health Advocate programs\n·       Other great discounted benefits include identity theft protection, pet insurance,\n fitness center reimbursements, and many more!\n#LI-REMOTE\n\n\nIn compliance with the CCPA, Best Egg is fully committed to handling the personal information and data of employees and job applications responsibly with respect and due care. Review our CCPA Employee Policy  here  \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Python, API, Mobile, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $122,500/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nRemote / Flexible

*this role is open to remote working within the UK. Successful candidates will be required to travel to their closest UNiDAYS campus (London or Nottingham) on occasion.\nThe role in a nutshell\n\nThe Senior Analytics Implementation Engineer will play an important role in supporting UNiDAYS product, engineering and marketing goals through both maintaining and more importantly improving the way we capture digital data (App and Web) at UNiDAYS. \nThis role is best suited to those with experience of responsibilities for digital data capture, ideally with exposure to doing so on mobile applications and websites.  Day to day you’ll be responsible for correctly measuring our digital journey and features across all, including the implementation of MarTech tags directly but often in collaboration with our engineering teams. \nBeyond day-to-day activity there is an opportunity to take on further responsibility within this role and help to unify and simplify our tracking approach across all platforms enabling us to evolve our tracking estate and supporting our growth aims at UNiDAYS \n\n\nDay to day responsibilities \n\n\n* Design & write digital data requirements for digital journeys and features based on the needs of the business and work with engineering teams to ensure their correct implementation (Across all platforms) including QA, UAT and Release Monitoring. Primarily within GA4 and Segment \n\n* Collaborate with our marketing teams to either deliver or consult on the correct implementation of Marketing Technology platforms including the use of GTM where required\n\n* Lead on data governance for digital data capture proactively working with analysts/reporting teams to identify data integrity issues through to collaborating with engineering teams on resolution through to final resolution \n\n* Maintain and improve on our existing data capture documentation library to improve self service from analysts and monitor technical analytical debt \n\n* Work with our engineering teams (with the support of your manager) on key projects, including developing new overarching measurement approaches and standards\n\n\n\nWhat we need from you\n\n\n* Intermediate to advanced experience in working with engineering teams consulting and supporting the implementation of tracking solutions\n\n* Strong communication skills and the ability to translate stakeholder requirements into engineering-friendly solutions. \n\n* Intermediate to advanced experience working with Firebase for data capture (owning spec design, UAT and QA)\n\n* Basic to Intermediate experience working with Google Tag Manager or similar tag management platforms\n\n* Intermediate to advanced experience working digital analytics and MarTech platforms \n\n* A Solid understanding of marketing technology principles and data pipelines \n\n* Experience working with Google Analytics 4 (Desirable)\n\n* Experience working with Segment and Launch Darkly (Desirable)\n\n* Experience working within a product-centric organisation (Desirable)\n\n* Experience working within a sprint-focused task environment (Desirable)\n\n* Exposure of a basic understanding of BigQuery for GA4 (Desirable)\n\n\n\nPerks\n\nWe've accomplished a lot since we started in 2011, but in many ways, this is just the beginning. This is the chance for you to get in on ground zero. An opportunity to make a difference within the business with global reach. We are the world’s largest Student Affinity Network, with over 22 million verified members in 115 markets including the US, UK, Germany, India, Canada and Australia. We work with 800 of the world’s biggest brands globally, taking their products and services into the hearts and minds of tomorrow’s professionals, delivering engagement, building affinity and sales. You’ll also be working for a Great Place to Work CertifiedTM company who have been recognised on the UK’s Best WorkplacesTM for Wellbeing and UK's Best Workplaces for Women 2022 list. To find out more about our workplace initiatives, see our UK exclusive case study with Great Place to Work and be sure to visit our profile for more information.\n\nWe offer a fast paced, fun & social working environment where you can truly make an impact. We believe that work should enhance and complement your life which is why we leave it up to you to decide where you work. You can choose to work from your assigned campus (either Nottingham or London) or from home, whatever works best for your individual needs. Your manager may request you attend team meet ups at your campus but other than that it is up to you! We work hard at UNiDAYS, but we also believe in fair compensation for hard work. That's why we're pleased to offer all employees full access to our comprehensive benefits package.\n\nOur perks include:\n\n\n25 days holiday per year increasing with length of service, plus flexible bank holidays\n\nCompetitive salaries\n\n4pm finishes every Friday\n\nCompany bonus scheme\n\nCompany pension scheme\n\nPrivate health insurance (Vitality)\n\nIncome protection policy\n\nLife assurance policy\n\nEmployee Assistance Program\n\nEnhanced parental leave pay\n\nCore hours with flexibility around how/when you manage your time\n\nRegular team building activities\n\nThe latest tech and hardware will be supplied from day one\n\nGood Vibes Program: we know we’ve all had to adapt to new ways of working and UNiDAYS has always taken pride in the community we’ve created in the office but we’re just as committed to creating an innovative approach to fostering connections and improving engagement outside of the office! We want to boost your remote working experience so think virtual parties, pottery classes, wellness classes and guest speakers just to name a few!\n\nSupport for home working for all new team members. We will help assess your home set up and you can expense £150 towards any additional furniture you may need to be safe and comfortable when working from home \n\n\n\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status. \n\n  \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Travel, Mobile, Senior, Marketing and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n