Python Developer
🌏 London, Manchester or Oxford (Hybrid)
💷 Discretionary Company Bonus Scheme
⏰ Monday – Friday (37.5h pw)
💖 Our perks
- 🌏25 days holiday (rising to 28 after 3 years’ service) plus bank holidays, to take time to recharge and do something you love.
- 🤒 Private Medical - via vitality, with reward schemes paid for you and your family.
- 🤒 Health cash plan - via Simply Health for employee's and children claiming money back for dental, optical, etc
- 👍Pension – Oodle will contribute 5% of your salary into your pension pot to help you save for the future
- 🪙Life Assurance - 4 x annual salary - benefit funded by Oodle
- 🥝Free breakfast, drinks and fruit in the office – you can help yourself to cereals, toast, fizzy drinks and lots of fruit.
- 🤟Employee discounts – discounts you can access anywhere, anytime for all major shops.
- 👌1 day volunteer day per year – an opportunity to give back to the community each year.
- ⭐Mental health care – 6 free counselling sessions via our EAP (Employee Assistance Programme).
- 🤧Paid sick leave – enhanced company sick pay.
- 👨Enhanced family leave – we provide enhanced family leave for primary and secondary caregivers.
🚗 Oodle – who are we? 🚗
Our mission is to be the UK’s simplest way to find and finance a great value used car. We want to put car buyers back in control and make the car buying experience as simple, straightforward, and joyful as possible as car buyers deserve oodles of car buying confidence!
We are a team of 400 people located in Manchester, Oxford and London. Over the past 6 years, we’ve supported 10,000’s of customers on their car buying journey and know 2025 is shaping up to be another exciting year!
🙌 The Role
Python Developer at Oodle Car Finance.
We are looking for a Python Developer with 3+ years of experience to join our Loan Processing team. You will be joining a relatively small team with big ambitions, offering a lot of opportunities for growth and specialisation. You will work close to Java developer and Data Science team to build and support the infrastructure behind our Credit Risk Management proposition. You will be managed by an Engineering Manager, who is responsible for the team’s output and career development.
This is a full-stack role. You can work remotely with occasional trips into the office to meet with the team, but you can be based anywhere in the UK. You must have the right to work in the UK.
Oodle has offices in Manchester, London, and Oxford. Many of your team mates are London based.
🛠️Our Technology:
Our solution is mainly created using FastAPI, Pandera, Pandas, and Pydantic. The team support a microservice architecture that connects Data Science models to Java Microservices responsible of the orchestration of the Loan Processing journey.
Your day-to-day work
- Collaborate with product managers, and developers to deliver both new functionality and iterative improvements to our Loan Processing system.
- Work on an extensible and testable architecture
- Review code built by your team
- Collaborate and contribute to shared tooling
- Actively participate in your team's Scrum ceremonies
- Support the Data Science team providing the correct infrastructure.
Essential Requirements for the Role
- Good knowledge of Python 3 and its best practices
- Familiarity with the libraries/tools listes in “Our Technology”
- Advocating automation test and familiarity with Pytest.
- Experience in building and maintaining microservices
- Experience implementing REST API’s
- Experience with git version control, as well as modern IDE (Pycharm)
- Not afraid of documentation, willing to experiment with new ideas and technologies
- Familiar to Docker, AWS, Github actions
- Excellent communication skills, verbal and written.
- Attention to detail.
- Creativity, passion and knowledge. You are hungry to learn about what others are doing, as well as get immersed in what Oodle does.
- The ability to problem-solve. You enjoy working in a team, and independently, to solve problems in a robust and scalable way
👩💻 Hiring Process
- ☎️ Preliminary Interview (30 mins)
- 📲 Video Interview
- 🔦 Final Technical Interview (1 hour) with the hiring manager and a member of the team.
💚 Our Values
Our values are our personal brand and lay the foundation of what we care about the most. They provide us with guidance, so we can work towards the same goals. They are our DNA and are kept at the forefront of our Oodler’s mind when making business decisions.
- Embrace being human – empathy and diversity make us stronger
- Strive for awesome – it’s awesome when we do better every day
- Everyone’s a builder – we’re in this together and we win as a team
- Bravely honest – we’re honest with ourselves and everyone else
- Think customer – they’re at the heart of everything we do
To find out more about our culture and what happens at Oodle check out our LinkedIn and Instagram.
Oodle is proud to be an inclusive workplace, and we recognise diversity of experience, thoughts and backgrounds leads to better customer outcomes and an environment where our colleagues can thrive. We have several DEI networks which are made up of our ‘Oodlers’ who strive to make positive impacts to our cultures.
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What We Do
We’re the fastest growing motor finance company in the UK, and we're on a mission to inspire car buying confidence at every step.
We believe that sorting the finance first is the best way to buy a used car. That's why we've flipped car buying on its head to give customers the confidence and control of a pre-approved budget; car finance which can be used to buy a car online or in-person from any trusted dealer.
We've already helped over 150,000 customers get the best used car for their budget, and we're delighted that our customer-centric approach has gained us the coveted five star rating on Trustpilot.
We bring new partners into our Oodle Approved dealer network every day. So if you’re a dealership and you'd like to work with us, please get in touch.
Our success comes from our partners and our people. We're committed to nurturing a strong shared-values team and creating a brilliant place to work.
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