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 Together they create pointless complexity for financial planning and investment professionals, and provide outdated, overpriced experiences for customers.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with insane product-market fit, impressive early traction and an offering that has the potential to transform an outdated industry for the better.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.
The role
We are looking for two talented engineers-in-test to join our amazing team and work with us on a range of exciting products. Our engineers-in-test take part equally in development and testing – seeking to automate wherever possible, striving for testability, robustness and performance.
As we are an API first organisation you may work on our front-end, most of your work will predominantly be back-end focused.
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, Operations.
automate testing across APIs and front-end web applications, including E2E, Integration and Scalability testing.
working with, and challenging product owners and engineers to improve test coverage and to discover untested scenarios.
involved in the full software development cycle including automation.
working in a highly collaborative agile team, guiding them on quality best practise.
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 a good knowledge of test automation frameworks for both front-end and back-end testing.
have experience in API test automation and have knowledge of TypeScript and frameworks such as Mocha and Jest
have experience of moving from simple user stories to TDD/BDD stories that use like Gherkin.
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:
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.
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!