AI Automation Engineer
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About the Position
AI Automation Engineer
ESTO is a fast-growing fintech company on a mission to make shopping and financial decisions effortless. We are looking for an AI Operations Engineer to join our Product Team in Tallinn, Estonia, in a hybrid role.
About the Role
As one of the first builders in our AI Operations team, you will work closely with the Head of AI Ops and teams across ESTO. This hands-on role is perfect for someone who is excited about turning possibilities into working solutions. You will experiment with the latest AI tooling, build agentic workflows and integrations, and solve problems that have a visible impact on how ESTO operates.
Responsibilities
- Build AI-powered automation - Design and ship agentic workflows, integrations, and scripts on our AI stack and internal systems.
- Remove operational bottlenecks - Take ideas from concept to production, understand the problem, design the solution, build it, test it, and iterate.
- Keep what you ship alive - Monitor the automations you and the team own, catch failures before users do, and refine them as inputs, volumes, and processes change.
- Experiment on the frontier - Try new AI capabilities and tooling, and turn the promising ones into practical solutions.
- Set the standard - Establish best practices for AI usage and workflow orchestration.
- Spread what works - Turn each automation into a reusable template and share what you learn to build a culture of experimentation across ESTO.
Requirements
- Solid engineering skills: Python (or similar), APIs, integrations, data.
- Problem solver who turns challenges into practical technical plans.
- AI-native: Excited about AI/LLMs, comfortable experimenting with tooling.
- Builder mindset: Ships small, tests, iterates from real feedback.
- Collaborative across Ops, Engineering, and Product.
- Curious: Digs into the "why," not just the task.
- Ownership mentality: Self-directed, fast-moving, comfortable with ambiguity in a role built from scratch.
Nice to Have
- Experience in automating support/finance/ops processes.
- Experience with AI agent frameworks.
- Fintech/regulated experience.
We Offer
- 28 days annual leave + public holidays + your birthday off, always.
- Hybrid work with flexible hours.
- Paid sick leave + 3 wellbeing days.
- Modern, pet-friendly office in the heart of Tallinn.
- Fully stocked kitchen: snacks, fruit & drinks.
- Monthly Stebby allowance for sports & wellness.
- Collaborative, multicultural team.
- Regular events & offsites.
- Room to bring ideas and make a real impact.
About the Company
Founded in 2017, ESTO expanded to Lithuania in 2020 and Latvia in 2021. Today we partner with 11,000+ merchants and serve nearly a million customers on a mission to simplify money by removing complexity, embracing transparency, and putting people first.
We’re driven by innovation that makes finance effortless, empowering people to take control of their financial future.
🌍 Equal Opportunity Employer
We value diversity and inclusion, and we're committed to a workplace where everyone feels welcome, has equal opportunities, and is treated fairly.
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ESTO is a fully licensed consumer credit company, specializing in providing merchants automated and tech-driven point of sale financing, custom private label solutions and tailored payment technology.ESTO was established in 2017 and in a short period of time has grown into a company with the second-largest consumer financing merchant partnership network in the Baltics.We have the ambition to expand our business model to other countries by handling real-time payments for the merchant and facilitate all payments between the client and merchant in an e-commerce setting.