Job Title: Head of Engineering

Location: UK/Europe

About Us:

Wealth management runs on emails, spreadsheets, and legacy software that hasn't meaningfully changed in 20 years. Otto is changing that.

We're building an autonomous engine to rewire how wealth management operates — replacing manual, fragmented back-office work with intelligent, agentic workflows that let advisers focus entirely on clients. We're already deployed at some of the largest wealth managers in the UK, closing significant enterprise contracts, and backed by Sequoia.

This is a rare moment: a hard problem, a proven market (over £2 trillion investable assets in the UK alone), real traction, and the backing to go after it properly.

The Role:

We're looking for a Head of Engineering to help own the technical foundation of Otto as we scale. This is a senior, hands-on leadership role that sits at the heart of the company — working directly with the founders to shape what we build, how we build it, and who we build it with.

The role is designed to expand significantly as we scale. There is meaningful scope for this to grow into the defining technical leadership position in the company.

The best candidate has built before — ideally as a founder, early engineer, or technical lead at a company that went from zero to something real. You understand what it means to make architectural decisions that matter, to ship fast without breaking things, and to build for high trust enterpise clients.

What you'll do:

• Own the engineering roadmap and technical architecture, working closely with the founders to align it with product and commercial strategy
• Lead and grow a lean, high-quality engineering team — hiring well, setting standards, building fast
• Stay hands-on in the codebase — this is not a purely managerial role
• Drive the application of AI and LLM technology across the platform, including agentic workflows, document processing, and structured data extraction from unstructured sources
• Ensure the platform meets the standards enterprise clients in regulated financial services demand: security, compliance, reliability, auditability
• Help shape Otto's technical identity — with clients, partners, and future hires

What we are looking for:

• Significant engineering experience, with real hands-on building — ideally including time as a founder, early engineer, or technical lead at a startup that went from zero to something substantial
• Experience with automation, workflow orchestration, or AI-native products — you understand the architectural complexity of this space
• An enterprise mindset: you've shipped to large, regulated organisations and know what they require
• Strong instincts on how to build lean, scalable systems and the pragmatism to make the right trade-offs at pace
• Experience hiring engineers and the credibility to attract great people
• Comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and thriving in a fast-moving environment.

Why this, why now:

• The market is enormous. UK wealth management alone manages over £1.4 trillion in AUM. European wealth management is multiples of that. The firms modernising their operations now will consolidate the industry — and Otto is positioned to be the platform they run on
• Serious capital, serious network, serious conviction in this category

We're looking for people who have built things they're proud of — ideally people who've been a founder or operated at the earliest stages of a company. If that's you, we'd love to talk.