Senior Automation and AI Engineer, Seccl
£75-90k
+ Octopus Share Incentive Plan
1 day a week in office
The embedded investment platform
Be an early applicant
The embedded investment platform
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
£75-90k
+ Octopus Share Incentive Plan
1 day a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
Seccl is the Octopus-owned embedded investment platform that’s helping more people to invest – and invest well.
Role
Who you are
- You have strong commercial experience with TypeScript or Python and are willing to learn whichever language is less familiar to you – TypeScript experience is slightly preferred
- You have experience writing or using agentic harnesses for software development and understand how to assess different orchestration approaches
- You understand the current frontier LLM landscape, its applications in software engineering and challenges such as hallucination, prompt injection, privacy, cost and latency
- You’re comfortable choosing the right tool for the job, including low-code platforms such as Zapier or Microsoft Power Platform when custom code isn’t the best answer
- You have an enablement mindset and naturally seek out ambiguity, inefficient processes and opportunities to design better ways of working
- You’re a hands-on builder who wants to understand a problem deeply, build the solution and remain accountable for running and improving it
- You understand how to make automation and AI-enabled systems reliable through testing, observability, validation, guardrails and human-in-the-loop review
- You have experience working with cloud-based systems – AWS, serverless technologies, regulated industries or financial services experience is desirable
- If this sounds like your kind of thing, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. We’d love to hear from you!
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior automation engineer to join our Automation & AI Enablement team
- Reporting to an Engineering manager, you’ll work closely with colleagues across engineering, product, operations and our customer-facing teams to identify complex operational problems and create simpler, faster and more scalable ways of working
- The team helps Seccl make better use of automation and AI as we continue to grow
- You’ll get under the skin of ambiguous processes, design improved workflows and build practical solutions using the right tool for the problem – whether that’s TypeScript, Python, an agentic system or a low-code platform such as Zapier or Microsoft Power Platform
- You’ll take ownership from initial discovery through to delivery and operation, balancing speed, quality and long-term maintainability
- Working with engineering, product, operations and customer-facing teams to uncover inefficient, manual or unclear processes
- Turning ambiguous business problems into well-designed, scalable automated workflows
- Choosing the right tool for each problem, from TypeScript or Python to LLMs, agentic systems and low-code platforms
- Designing, building, testing and operating reliable automation and AI-enabled services
- Applying appropriate quality gates, guardrails and human oversight to AI-driven workflows
- Owning your solutions throughout their lifecycle, including documentation, observability, support and continuous improvement
- Evaluating emerging LLM models, agentic tools and automation approaches based on their practical benefits and trade-offs
- Sharing your knowledge and helping other engineers and teams adopt effective automation practices
Application process
- Interviewing is a two-way thing, and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you
- Our interviews are conversational, so come with questions and be curious. In general, you can expect the interview process to look a bit like this, (following an initial chat with one of our Talent team):
- First stage – 45 mins competencies-based interview with the hiring manager
- Second stage – two-hour technical interview or assessment
Our take
Seccl is an embedded investment platform revolutionising how companies offer investment services. With its API-first technology infrastructure, it helps financial professionals and businesses launch and manage investment platforms easily. By simplifying old, clunky processes, Seccl gives firms the tools they need to offer customers a seamless, digital investing experience - whether it's for financial advisers, neobanks, or fast-growing startups.
Since being acquired by Octopus in 2019, Seccl has seen impressive growth. Now supporting over 1 million investors, it manages more than £6 billion in funds through its platform. With this, Seccl is well on track to power even more businesses, and as it continues to grow, its mission to disrupt the industry with smarter, scalable solutions is only growing in momentum.
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Company benefits
- Flexible/hybrid working: We don’t prescribe when or how many days you come into the office. It’s what you deliver that’s important
- Events and socials: Twice-yearly all-company offsites, regular team socials and plenty of non-work activities – from gigs to sporting activities – to get stuck into
- Private medical: Access GP and other health and dental appointments work through private medical insurance
- Focus on mental health: Your wellbeing is more important than work. We offer free and confidential access to therapy if you need it
- Long-service award: A month’s fully-paid sabbatical when you’ve worked here for eight years (we’re part of Octopus, after all)
- The usual stuff: 27 days’ holiday (plus religious holidays and your birthday), Cycle2Work scheme and workplace pension
Company values
- Never settle
- Take ownership
- Be generous and candid
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
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Leadership
David Ferguson
(Executive Chairman)Joined Seccl in 2022 as CEO. Before that, they spent 15 years as the CEO of Nucleus Financial Group.
Jonathan Dees
(CEO)Previously COO of Octopus Investments and ZPG. Before that, they were Interim CFO at the Fairtrade Foundation.
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