Applied AI Engineer - Direct Acquisition at iwoca · Remote (United Kingdom)
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dbt
A time you used dbt: the problem, what you did yourself, and what happened.
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Go
A time you used Go: the problem, what you did yourself, and what happened.
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Python
A time you used Python: the problem, what you did yourself, and what happened.
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We're looking for the depth of someone who has solved hard problems, and the pace of someone who moves fast in areas that are new to them.
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System ownership.
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You've owned a complex system end to end, from design to running it in production, and lived with the consequences of your architecture choi
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Design judgement.
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You've made architecture decisions other people built on, and you can explain the trade-offs and what you'd change. When an idea won't work,
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Agent engineering.
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You've built systems where LLMs take actions – more than chat or summaries – and you can explain what went wrong and how you fixed it. You k
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Why they ask: Rigour.
How to answer: Metric choice, baselines, offline vs online tests.
Why they ask: Communication.
How to answer: Problem, approach, impact, limits.
Why they ask: dbt is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
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Why they ask: Go is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Opener to see how you frame your story.
How to answer: Two minutes: current role, one achievement that matches this job, why this company now.
Why they ask: Checks ownership and depth.
How to answer: Use situation, action, result. Quantify the result.
Why they ask: Tests accountability and learning.
How to answer: Pick a real failure, own your part, show the fix and what changed afterwards.
Why they ask: Checks judgement under pressure.
How to answer: Describe a concrete framework and one example of a trade-off you made.
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