Engineering · Full-time · England, United Kingdom
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 Together they create pointless complexity for financial planning and investment professionals, and provide outdated, overpriced experiences for customers.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with insane product-market fit, impressive early traction and an offering that has the potential to transform an outdated industry for the better.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.
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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:
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.
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.
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:
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!