iwoca

Applied AI Engineer

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1 day ago
London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design and build AI agents that automate business processes, beginning with monthly direct-mail acquisition.
  • Design reusable agent architecture including persistent memory, task management, tool access, permissions, and decision records.
  • Implement guardrails that enforce suppressions, compliance checks, budget limits, and human approval controls.
  • Connect agents to predictive models, data pipelines, and channel tools, and run them alongside existing processes through production validation.
  • Measure agent intervention rates, failures, costs, and business value.
  • Own system design decisions and write most of the production code, using AI coding tools where appropriate.

Requirements

  • Own complex systems end to end from design through production operation.
  • Demonstrate strong architecture judgment and explain technical trade-offs and alternative approaches.
  • Have delivered systems quickly in unfamiliar areas that continued working when relied upon by users.
  • Have built LLM-powered systems that take actions beyond chat or summarization, and be able to diagnose and fix failures.
  • Have built permissions, data access controls, and audit trails into systems from the beginning.
  • Use AI coding tools effectively to deliver services, integrations, or internal tools, while reviewing their output before production.
  • Communicate clearly and adapt technical detail to different audiences.
  • Preferred qualifications include experience with Python, Go, Snowflake, dbt, agent evaluations, advertising platforms, CRMs, direct mail, and quantitative or technical fields such as physics, engineering, mathematics, or computer science.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working in London, with flexible working hours.
  • £80,000 to £120,000 salary range, plus an employee equity incentive scheme.
  • Medical insurance through Vitality, discounted gym membership, and private GP access for the employee, partner, and dependents.
  • 25 days of annual leave, a birthday day off, the option to buy or sell up to five additional days, and unlimited unpaid leave.
  • A fully paid one-month sabbatical after four years, counselling and therapy access, and generous parental leave.
  • 3% pension contributions on total earnings, electric car and cycle-to-work schemes, and two company retreats per year.
  • Learning and development budget, company-wide talks, and access to learning platforms including Treehouse.
  • Hybrid role based in London, with company offices also available in Leeds, Berlin, and Frankfurt.

Tech Stack

dbtGoPythonSnowflake
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About iwoca

501-1,000 employees

iwoca provides working capital loans, credit lines and B2B payment options to small businesses in the UK, delivered online and via partner integrations. It earns interest and fees on lending and also offers an API for embedded finance. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in London’s West End, the privately held company says it has provided funding to over 100,000 businesses.

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