What is PayCaptain?
PayCaptain is the most helpful payroll solution on the planet – we’re a mission driven FinTech solution transforming the way companies pay their employees. We are elevating the traditional (boring) payroll process and creating a valuable experience for employees – and Payroll Teams, all whilst focussing on building up employee's financial wellbeing, resilience and knowledge.
Why is PayCaptain exciting?
From a Tech perspective - We adopt a hyper-automation strategy – what does that mean? We’re passionate about automation and AI - and harnessing that passion as a force for payroll good.
We want to put power in the hands of employees at the point of getting paid, to encourage their financial wellbeing through their payroll experience and build up their financial resilience through our cutting-edge software and services.
That’s where you come in…
Who are you?
You’re someone who can build and maintain n8n workflows, and integrating internal and external APIs, to enable us to scale and deliver highly effective services to our clients and users - their employees. All in the name of never having to do the same (repetitive) task twice!
You’re a business-savvy Low-Code Engineer specialising in, and passionate about, Automation and AI; bonus points if you’ve got love for financial wellbeing too – you’ll be super aligned with our mission!
5 reasons to join PayCaptain:
- This is a critical and needed role - you will get to work directly with CEO, and influence all departments at PayCaptain. You will also get to be involved in discussions with customers and partners.
- Freedom – to designing, building, testing and documenting automations; And having the space to come up with new ideas for business improvements
- Be part of the movement to [finally!] take away boring, monotonous and tedious tasks – so we can all spend more time adding value, being creative and fulfilling our mission!
- Work remotely; When it suits you – we have a flexible work schedule, where you can work from home, or choose to meet in person locally (we meet anywhere between Manchester and London!), at a time that suits you best.
- Be a part of a mission-driven B Corp – we walk the walk, we don’t just talk the talk. We genuinely believe that doing good and making money go together – starting with our own team.
What do we need for this role?
- n8n expertise - You must be highly proficient with n8n. That’s the actual job, so we really need this.
- Prompt Engineering - capable of building complex prompts and prompt chains.
- AI Agents - Proven ability to build AI Agents in n8n with multiple tools and sub-agents, capable of executing complex, autonomous tasks
- API Integration - Comfortable integrating all kinds of APIs into systems and workflows – we work with over 50 SaaS companies so we have a fair few APIs already
- Database & RAG Proficiency - Understanding of databases, including vector databases, SQL, NoSQL.
- Deployment & Hosting - Skilled in managing self-hosted tools (e.g., n8n) and configuring (AWS) environments for scalability and reliability.
- Documentation - Capable of creating thorough documentation and delivering video tutorials for workflows and systems – you can work with our Trainer to get some of this done too
Nice-To-Haves (not essential – just a bonus):
- Coding experience
- Salesforce admin / flows
What Soft Skills do we look for?
- Problem Solving - are you excited at tackling complex automation challenges?
- Communication - can you explain technical solutions to non-technical people?
- Project Management - Can you juggle and prioritise different tasks over the day?
What can we do for YOU?
- Remote, Flexible Work: Work from anywhere, with flexible hours.
- Genuine Opportunities for Growth: Our current average promotion to Senior roles happens within 2 years of Employment.
- 25 Days holiday – plus your birthday off!
- Quarterly Wellness Allowance – to help you feel great
- YuLife – for Life Insurance, Death In Service and Critical Illness Cover
- Multiple Salary Sacrifice Schemes – including Cycle and Nursery Schemes
- Equal Pension Percentage- we split the contribution 4%/4%
- Enhanced Parental Leave – 12 Weeks 100% Pay Maternity and 4 Weeks Paternity (2 weeks 100%, 2 weeks 50% pay)
- Of course – access to our PayCaptain App to help you engage with your pay, become financially resilient and access Emergency Cash – if you need it!
- And that isn’t all… we’ve got so much more on offer that we couldn’t even fit here! Please ask in advance for anything else you’d need to know?
So… You want to join us?
Please contact Emily – Community Success Manager with your CV and examples of workflows or agents you have built previously in n8n – or click Apply on LinkedIn and we will be in touch to get some examples of your work 😊
Interview Process
1st – 30-45mins with Emily to go through your experience in more detail, and for you to learn more about PayCaptain
2nd - We’d love to see a Loom/Screen Record video where you talk through what you have built and how it works? What better way to show us what you can do… than actually showing us what you have built?
3rd – 1:1 Interview with Simon Bocca – CEO and Founder and Michael Taylor – Director of Technology
