UK consumer lender offering loans and credit cards to underserved borrowers
118 118 Money is a London-based consumer credit lender running an AWS-native stack (Lambda, ECS, Fargate, Aurora, DynamoDB) with Pega for decisioning and Snowflake for analytics, while phasing out SQL Server. Current hiring tilts toward finance, marketing, data and security at senior and leadership levels, including a Chief Growth Officer, pointing to a push on growth channels alongside tighter fraud and credit-risk controls.
Notable leadership hires: Chief Growth Officer
118 118 Money is a privately held UK lender founded in 2013 and headquartered in London. It provides personal loans and credit cards aimed at consumers who often struggle to get credit from mainstream banks. The company employs 51–200 people and hires in the United Kingdom. Its work spans credit risk management, fraud and financial crime controls, affiliate and partner acquisition channels, and consumer marketing, including a mobile app go-to-market.
118 118 Money runs on AWS (Lambda, ECS, Fargate, RDS, Aurora), with PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, OpenSearch and Snowflake, plus .NET, C#, TypeScript, Python, Terraform, Pega and Datadog.
Yes, hiring is accelerating in the United Kingdom, focused on finance, marketing, data and security, mostly senior and lead roles, plus a Chief Growth Officer.
Projects include a fraud and financial crime operating model and control framework, affiliate channel strategy, a mobile app go-to-market, pricing-for-risk strategy and customer segmentation analysis.
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