Forward Deployed Engineer

Otto is redefining how financial advisers work.

We’re building the copilot for wealth managers — an AI-powered platform that automates manual tasks like meeting transcription, report writing, onboarding, and client communications. Otto frees up advisers to focus on what matters most: building relationships and delivering personalised advice.

Our mission is to modernise the wealth management industry, replacing outdated systems with intelligent, seamless workflows. We believe in building high-leverage tools that enable small teams to have an outsized impact — both for our customers and within our own company.

We’re a fast-growing, Sequoia-backed startup already making waves in the wealth management industry — recently featured in the Financial Times for our pioneering work in Agentic AI.

About the job

We're looking for a talented forward deployed engineer to join our engineering team to provide white-glove deployment support for Otto products in enterprise environments.

Your time will be spent working between our Dev team and customers on:

• Building bespoke AI pipelines for document processing and agentic research.
• Creating dynamic UIs that respond to the user’s particular needs and client base.
• Setting up integrations with customer infrastructure + advising on best practices.
• Helping with discovery work to ensure customer success throughout the onboarding phases and beyond.

Location and working model:

• Hybrid, based in our London office (2 days a week), with occasional travel to customer sites.

Today, we’re a lean founding engineering team, which means you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping both our product and our success. Joining Otto at this stage gives you the opportunity to grow rapidly with the company, help define our culture, and lay the foundations for everything we build next.

Our ambition is to scale across Europe and eventually the globe, which means you will get the opportunity to gain exposure and experience in areas that will set your career on a rocket-like trajectory.

About you

• You have at least 5 years of experience
• You are a skilled full-stack engineer with experience building applications in React and Node.js.
• You have Demonstrable experience working with distributed systems.
• You have strong communication skills, and you're equally comfortable with execs and developers.
• You understand how AI is changing software development and have already levelled up.
• You are not afraid to switch between back end, front end, devops.
• We're early stage, so you'll need to think about what to build, not just how.
• You Share our values: Empathy, Transparency, Customer-centricity and Drive

We leverage AI heavily in our day-to-day development to maximise productivity. But ultimately we value an engineering mindset and considered approach. We believe AI is a racecar that needs a skilled driver.

Some of the technologies you will be working with are:

• TypeScript across the stack: React on the front end, Node.js/NestJS on the back end.
• Experience in regulated environments, including data residency and enterprise security requirements.
• Extensive experience with PostgreSQL
• Experience with SSO/OAuth2 + managing 3rd party integrations.
• Experience building workflows/automation systems.
• You’ve started a company before or worked at an early-stage startup

What we offer

• A competitive salary + equity package
• An amazing scale-up atmosphere where you'll be given full autonomy and the chance to grow and run large initiatives
• An experienced founding team in a company trying to revolutionise financial back office operations.
• A great group of colleagues, who have already built a strong culture over the last year - allowing you to convince your friends that having fun at work is possible!
• An ethical company that believes that corporations have a duty to be proactive in the building of a better world for all
• The freedom to be yourself and shape the way you work with the team