iwoca.co.uk - Applied AI Engineer - Direct Acquisition

• We're looking for the depth of someone who has solved hard problems, and the pace of someone who moves fast in areas that are new to them. • System ownership. You've owned a complex system end to end, from design to running it in production, and lived with the consequences of your architecture choices. • Design judgement. You've made architecture decisions other people built on, and you can explain the trade-offs and what you'd change. When an idea won't work, you say so and offer a better one. • Pace. You've got things live quickly in unfamiliar areas and they kept working once people relied on them. • Agent engineering. You've built systems where LLMs take actions – more than chat or summaries – and you can explain what went wrong and how you fixed it. You know when a problem needs an agent and when it needs a for-loop. • Controls. You've built permissions, data access rules and audit trails into systems from the start. • Constructive challenge. You work well with commercial and product colleagues, and when an idea won't work, you say so and offer a better one. • AI leverage. You've used AI coding tools to produce engineering work you couldn't have delivered without them – a service, an integration, or an internal tool others use. You have opinions on how to get the most out of them, and you check their output before it reaches production. • Communication. You write and speak clearly, directly, and concisely. You adapt technical detail to your audience. • Languages and data tools. You've worked with Python, Go, Snowflake or dbt. • Evaluation. You've built evals that measure how an agent performs and where it fails. • Marketing and growth tech. You've worked with ad platforms, CRMs or direct mail. • Quantitative foundations. You come from a numerical or technical field, such as physics, engineering, maths or computer science. • At iwoca, the best idea wins. We model our culture on independent thinking, challenging untested logic, and evidence-based decisions. We prioritise learning and growth, and give people the autonomy to develop in the direction that makes them most effective. • We're a tech company and believe in the power of AI to help us work faster and better. We provide the infrastructure where every iwocan always has access to the best models and where those models have access to all of our data. We will help our people to learn how to use and grow with the new tools available to them. • We put a lot of effort into making iwoca a great place to work: • Offices in London, Leeds, Berlin, and Frankfurt with plenty of drinks and snacks. • Events and community-led groups, including running groups, padel, and monthly ping-pong and pool competitions.