Engineer In Test (ui)

About us

Seccl is the Octopus-owned embedded investment platform that’s helping more people to invest – and invest well.

Our sector is being held back by old tech, dismal processes and misaligned interests. Together they create pointless complexity for financial planning and investment professionals, and provide outdated, overpriced experiences for customers. We’re on a mission to fix it.

We help forward-thinking financial planners, wealth managers and investment platforms to reimagine their business and client experience – empowering them to build better, more sustainable and more valuable operations, and meet the digital demands of the future, not the baseline expectations of the past.

And we do it by reimagining their technology – with a low-cost, hyper-efficient and (genuinely) API-first technology infrastructure that handles millions of requests every day, and powers the portfolios of more than 160,000 investors.

A regulated custodian and ISA/SIPP provider, we combine the disruptive mindset and ambitious mission to shake things up, with the commitment and substance to not screw them up.

We’ve doubled the size of our business over the last six months and expect to do that a few more times over the next few years.

We’re proud to be part of Octopus, the £12.8 billion group that's on a mission to breathe new life into broken industries, through companies like Octopus Energy, Octopus Investments and Octopus Money.

TLDR

We’re a business with insane product-market fit, impressive early traction and an offering that has the potential to transform an outdated industry for the better. As we set our sights on rapid growth, the performance and output of our engineering team is absolutely crucial. We’re looking for another engineer-in-test to help us deliver on our promise and catapult our business forward.

The role

We are looking for a talented engineer-in-test to join our amazing team and work with us on a range of exciting products. Our engineers-in-test are fundamental to the squad, providing testing input throughout the software development lifecycle and test at various testinglevels.  We may be an API first organisation, but we additionally support several UI Platforms to allow our clients easy and seamless integration to our platform. This role will be focused on these platforms. As part of the UI squad, most of your work will be UI focused, however you may work on the backend and knowledge of API testing is still useful.

On a typical day you will be…

• working in a domain aligned cross functional squad made up of engineers, engineers-in-test and product. Supported by colleagues from DevOps, Customer and Operations.
• develop, maintain, and execute automated tests for our React-based UI using React Testing Library, Jest and Playwright. Tests will be automated at various levels, such as unit testing, integration testing and E2E testing. UI specific testing such as visual regression, accessibility, browser and device testing will be implemented where appropriate.
• there may also be non-functional testing to consider. There may also be some manual/exploratory testing, but the role has an emphasis on automated testing.
• be comfortable writing tests as well as providing expert and targeted advice to engineers, guiding them on quality best practice.
• collaborate with our engineers in test to create test plans, strategies and ensure approach standardisation throughout our platform.
• working with and challenging engineers to improve test coverage and to discover untested scenarios.
• involved in the full software development lifecycle as part of a highly collaborative agile team.
• Identify, document, and track bugs and performance issues.

You’ll be successful if you …

• care about the quality of your output and will help and critique others to allow us to achieve consistent high standards throughout the team.
• enjoy testing products throughout the development process and working closely with engineering and product teams.
• possess the ability to work across multiple projects and are adaptable to a fast paced, high growth environment.
• strive to achieve high test coverage across our product and development lifecycle.
• have a knack for discovering untested scenarios and like working closely with others to ensure robust acceptance criteria.
• have excellent knowledge of test automation frameworks for front-end testing.
• experience in integrating test automation within a CI/CD pipeline.
• comfortable in working with and writing Typescript.
• working autonomously, taking ownership for personal and team delivery and outcomes.

This role isn’t for you if:

• You rely on a lot of top-down direction. Here, you’ll have a lot of freedom and ownership of your role, and you’ll be expected to shape your own progression.
• You’re not comfortable working in a fast-paced environment. Our speed and scalability is what set us apart; you need to be able to act quickly and think on your feet.
• You struggle to follow through on your ideas. We value people who do what they say they will. If you care about something, you have the freedom here to make it happen.
• You don’t like change. You’ll get on great here if you relish the ambiguity of rapid growth and are willing to embrace uncertainty.

Our culture

We are proud to cultivate a culture first, human environment and genuinely listen to our people about what matters to them most. As a result, we’re proud we’ve cultivated a transparent and inclusive environment that encourages diversity of thought, challenge and experimentation. Our purpose is supported by a series of non-negotiable operating principles that define how we work to deliver value for each other and for our clients: 

1. Never settle

We think of ourselves as ‘embedded hero-makers’ for our customers. We put them first, and if we say we’ll do something, we’ll move heaven earth to do it. We think boldly and embrace change. 

1. Take ownership

We think rigorously and deeply about a problem, but then charge at it, acting with and urgency and speed that sets us apart. But we never lose sight on quality or long-term scalability. 

1. Be generous and candid

We encourage our people – and our customers – to challenge us and never shy away from tough conversations. We have a flat and inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves – and speak up. 

We have offices in central Bath and Edinburgh, and London. We’re working as a hybrid team supporting each of our people to choose how they work best. We’ve always been supportive of flexible working that focuses on delivery and impact, rather than hours worked. Don’t just take our word for it, check out our Glassdoor page for the latest reviews or our Instagram, and LinkedIn for company updates and insights from the team.

What’s in it for you…

We offer a generous blend of benefits for the things that really matter to our people, including:

• 27 days holiday + bank holidays (some can be flexible) + day off on your birthday.
• 3 days (full time) per year for Dependant leave.
• 2 days off per year to volunteer for a registered charity of your choice, including our charity partners Aid Box Community and Edinburgh Food Project.
• Length of service award – 1 month paid sabbatical at 8 years.
• 6% employer pension contribution, and life assurance.
• Private medical insurance with AXA Health.
• Enhanced Parental leave and flexibility to integrate your home and work life in a trusted environment.
• Will writing offering via Octopus Legacy.
• MacBook and up to £500 home office set up budget.
• £700 per person learning budget.
• Option to work abroad for up to 6 weeks in the year.
• Health and wellbeing initiatives including free therapy via Wellness Cloud, mental health support via Headspace.
• Strong financial wellbeing focus including access to Octopus Money, Octopus Share Incentive Plan and Seccl invest (our own platform for you to manage your investments).
• Octopus Electric Vehicle scheme after 12 months of employment.
• Perkbox – Flexi-points giving you a range of discounts and perks including free weekly coffee, gym and retail discounts.
• Cycle to work scheme - saving money on a range of bikes and accessories.

Our aim is to build a diverse and inclusive company of awesome people, with unique skills, passions and experiences.  We encourage everyone to join us, whatever your gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or background.

Please note that we do not provide sponsorship for candidates residing outside the UK. However, we welcome applications from individuals who possess valid work permits that allow them to work in the UK. If you already have the right to work in the UK or hold an eligible work permit, we encourage you to apply for this position.

If you think you have most of what we are looking for, then what are you waiting for? Go ahead and apply. We’d love to hear from you!