At On the Beach, we’re redefining how people discover, plan and book their beach holidays. Our platform serves millions of customers every year, and we’re now investing in how AI and automation can transform the way our business operates.

We’re looking for an AI Automation Engineer to help us design and build the next generation of intelligent, automated systems. From AI-powered workflows to agent-driven solutions that improve how we work at scale.

As well as improving existing processes you'll be focusing on Building Automation systems using AI-led software engineering processes.

You’ll work across the business to help identify opportunities where automation and AI can make a meaningful impact, then design and build scalable solutions to solve them. This could include everything from integrating APIs and building services, to developing AI-powered workflows using modern LLM and agent frameworks.

About the role

This is not a traditional RPA role. You’ll be working at the intersection of automation, AI and our software engineering teams, helping us design intelligent systems that reduce manual effort, improve decision-making and unlock capacity across the organisation.

You’ll partner closely with engineering, product, and business teams to identify high-impact opportunities and turn them into robust, scalable solutions.

Why join this team?

You’ll help shape how a growing tech business scales through automation and AI.

Along the way, you’ll have the opportunity to experiment with modern tools and approaches, as well as maintaining legacy processes.

You’ll be part of a collaborative and supportive team that values curiosity, ownership, and continuous improvement, and you’ll play a key role in defining what “great” looks like for automation at On the Beach.

What you’ll be doing day to day

Design and build scalable, intelligent automation solutions using Python and modern tooling, spanning low-code, no-code, and code-first approaches, and integrating APIs, services, data sources, and emerging AI and agent-based workflows across the business.

Collaborate with stakeholders to deeply understand problems and design solutions that are practical, measurable, and user friendly

Productionise solutions with a focus on reliability, observability, and security, including error handling and monitoring

Use data and qualitative feedback to measure success, run experiments, and continuously improve performance

Contribute to building best practices, standards, and reusable components across automation and AI

Coach and support others in adopting automation tools and ways of working

You’ll be a great addition if you have

• Skills in Python, with experience building production-grade solutions

• Experience designing and building automation systems or workflows beyond simple scripting

• Hands-on experience with APIs, system integration, and working across distributed systems

• Exposure to AI/LLM-based tooling or frameworks such as LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, or similar

• Awareness of security considerations and creating guiderails when building automated or AI-driven systems

Nice to have:

• Experience building or working with agent-based systems or orchestration framework

• Exposure to infrastructure as code and CI/CD practices

• Strong problem-solving mindset with the ability to break down complex challenges

• Comfortable using data to designing experiments and iterating based on results

Ways of working

• Clear and effective communicator, comfortable working across technical and non-technical teams

• Self-motivated and able to take ownership of problems from discovery through to delivery (and beyond!)

• Enjoys collaborating and sharing knowledge, with a mindset of helping others succeed

What to expect from our interview process

We’ll run a multi-stage interview process, one stage of which will be an in-person interview at our fabulous Aeroworks office in Manchester city centre.

We want to make sure everybody has the opportunity to perform at their best. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview process please let the Talent Acquisition team know and they will be happy to assist.

Hybrid working

Our fulltime hours are 37.5 per week, but we don't have rigid working hours so you can find the working pattern that's right for you. We have core working hours between 10am - 4pm, so we can collaborate and enjoy the social side of work.

We also have hybrid working so we all work from home and one day a fortnight from our Aeroworks office in Manchester City Centre. You are welcome in the office at any time however, so come in and collaborate!

Our benefits

We might be biased but we think our colleagues are pretty great. They're the people that have made On the Beach what it is today and continue to make it vibrant and successful tomorrow. That's why we offer a competitive benefits package, known as our Beach Perks, to all On the Beach colleagues.

These include:

25 days holiday plus your birthday off

Generous discount on holidays, plus you will receive 2 extra days annual leave on top of your holiday allowance to use whilst you're away on your On the Beach package holiday

Access to Learnerbly learning platform, plus workshops, courses and professional qualifications

Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental leave and adoption pay, plus other family friendly support

Employee Assistance Programme and free access to counselling

Simplyhealth Optimise Health Plan

Company Sick Pay scheme

Regular wellbeing events

Gym discount

Share Incentive Plan (SIP)

Death in Service cover

Onsite subsidised coffee shop

The Sandbox (our very own bar)

Food and drink discounts across a number of venues in Manchester City Centre

Regular social events

Cycle to Work scheme