AI Agent Architect for Financial Automation

Auquan; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity: Stock options

Private Medical Insurance (UK)

Pension

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Auquan seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and build multi-agent systems that automate financial workflows. You’ll own end-to-end development from design to deployment, collaborating directly with investment clients and ensuring scalable, reliable platforms.

You will work with Python, React/NextJS, FastAPI, MongoDB, and Redis, applying AI to code, test, and optimize workflows while meeting tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software development in fast-paced, product-focused environments.
• Owned a subsystem or workflow end-to-end (requirements → architecture → implementation → launch).
• Strong Python fundamentals; think in primitives, patterns, and systems.
• Already use AI to automate work or build LLM-powered workflows.
• Comfortable translating customer ambiguity into crisp technical solutions.
• Able to unblock yourself through learning, experimentation, and AI tools.
• Thrive under tight deadlines, high expectations, and minimal process.
• Familiar with our tech stack: Python, React/NextJS, FastAPI, MongoDB, Redis.

Responsibilities

• Take ambiguous workflow requests and turn them into scoped, architected, implemented, and deployed multi-agent systems.
• Build reliable multi-step, multi-agent workflows used in production by financial institutions.
• Own reliability, latency, success metrics, and customer adoption.
• Work directly with customer engineering teams to deliver smooth deployments.
• Convert bespoke workflows into reusable platform primitives and components.
• Build orchestration logic, tools, templates, and pipelines used across engineering pods.
• Ship V1s in days, operate with high agency, tight prioritisation, and strong defaults.
• Identify patterns across customers and turn them into reusable systems.
• Influence architecture and direction of core platform components.
• Use AI for coding, testing, debugging, workflow design, and documentation.
• Build evals, safety nets, and AI-native engineering workflows.

Skills

Python development

Multi-agent systems

LLM workflows

Customer collaboration

Problem solving

Tools

FastAPI

MongoDB

Redis

React/NextJS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Azure/AWS

Job description

Auquan seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and build multi-agent systems that automate financial workflows. You’ll own end-to-end development from design to deployment, collaborating directly with investment clients and ensuring scalable, reliable platforms.

You will work with Python, React/NextJS, FastAPI, MongoDB, and Redis, applying AI to code, test, and optimize workflows while meeting tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.