Automation Engineer

Job description

📍 Location : London (E1) or Sheffield (Fargate, Sheffield City Centre) 🖥 Hybrid working as standard: 2 days a week in the office, the other 3 days remote (or office if you prefer) Please note that while we love the use of AI, this is not a 'prompt-only' role. We are looking for someone who can write clean, functional code (using programming/ scripting language such as Python/JavaScript) from scratch with their own knowledge, without relying on AI assistants to write it for them. The Opportunity: Working directly with teams across the entire business to identify manual inefficiencies and rescue them from repetitive, low-leverage work. Operate at the intersection of operations and engineering, combining low-code platforms with custom code to build robust automation internal ecosystems. Actively integrate LLMs and AI via APIs directly into our daily workflows to create smarter, more intuitive automation solutions. Own the process end-to-end, from scoping workflows with non-technical stakeholders to building, monitoring, and maintaining the pipeline. What we need from you: You must have strong, hand-written programming skills in programming/ scripting languages such as Python or JavaScript with the ability to read, debug, and rewrite code from scratch. You have proven experience designing, building, and deploying workflows utilising low-code/no-code platforms like Zapier or n8n. You possess practical experience connecting business systems using REST APIs and integrating AI models into production-ready solutions. You can communicate comfortably with non-technical colleagues, mapping their business problems into structured, logical workflows. Our mission: Two in five people in the UK rent their homes. Our mission? To be the gold standard platform for renting We started Goodlord because we wanted to make renting simple and transparent for everyone involved: the agent, the landlord, and the tenant. We knew Generation Rent would lead to more tenants, with higher digital expectations and we were confident we could provide a solution Like all scale-ups it’s been a bit of a rollercoaster journey, but we’re now stronger than ever, with around 3,000 letting agents using the platform, exciting and varied products and 350+ Goodlordians across the group supporting the mission! Why you'll love being a Goodlordian Aside from the role, the people, our culture and our mission…