PlannerPal is an AI-powered platform transforming how financial advice and wealth management are delivered. We help advisers and their teams save time, reduce admin, and deliver better client outcomes by automating meeting notes, documentation, and CRM updates.
Trusted by hundreds of advisory firms, PlannerPal is reshaping the advice industry – improving efficiency, compliance, and data quality across the client journey. The company recently signed enterprise contracts with both a top-10 and a top-5 UK wealth management firm, further establishing its position as a key technology partner in the sector.
Recognised by the Financial Times Adviser as one of the Top 3 AI tools for financial advisers, PlannerPal is a UK-based wealth tech company backed by venture capital investors, with deep experience in financial services, technology, and AI. The platform is scaling rapidly through numerous industry technology partnerships, including a strategic AI partnership with Iress Xplan.
The Role;
We’re now looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to bridge PlannerPals application development with a strong background in devops or enterprise-level agentic engineering.
You will focus on:
- Designing and building key features of our solutions
- Development and design of CI/CD pipelines, including Infrastructure as a Code and the enablement of developers
- Building and deploying AI agents to production.
- Ensure that coding and testing standards are upheld
This role offers the opportunity to work closely with the founders at a defining stage in our growth.
Tasks
Responsibilities;
Solution design;
- Own the end-to-end solution design for new features within a defined architecture framework
- Make pragmatic decisions about trade-offs (scope, performance, scalability, security) in a fast-moving environment.
Hands-on development;
- Take ownership of complex or high-impact pieces of work, especially where the architecture, integrations or performance considerations are non-trivial.
- Design, build and optimise the journeys of our service using our tech stack:
- Backend: Python
- Frontend: React + Flutter
- Data / Infra: Postgres, AWS ( S3, ECS etc.)
- Write high-quality, testable code and contribute to our continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
Infrastructure development;
- Design and optimise reliable CI/CD pipelines, resilience, observability and security within AWS (i.e. CDK, Terraform) utilising workflows such as Github Actions, GitLab CI for example
- Manage AWS resources and containerised applications deployments via Docker
- Build and maintain a scalable infrastructure utilising Terraform (CDK within AWS)
Technical ownership & continuous improvement;
- Help evolve our platform architecture for performance, resilience, observability and security as we scale.
- Identify and drive improvements to developer experience, tooling and internal processes (e.g. testing, release, monitoring, on-call), in collaboration with both in-house and outsourced engineers.
Requirements
Key Requirements;
Essentials;
- Degree in Computer Science or related developer education (e.g. a reputable coding bootcamp) or equivalent practical experience.
- 7+ years’ experience designing, developing, shipping and maintaining backend applications using Python and front-end web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks (ideally