Award-winning AI solutions for Financial Services
Lead Software Engineer
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
67 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Lead Software Engineer
Aveni
• Setting technical direction for your squad • Owning architectural decisions, managing technical risk, representing engineering perspective at Architecture Review Board • Leading AI-powered product development: designing LLM workflows, RAG pipelines, agentic features on AI platform • Driving adoption of AI coding tools across the full SDLC • Delivering production grade code across the full stack: Node.js or Python backends, event-driven AWS architecture, and React • Mentoring and growing engineers across AI and full-stack domains • Collaborating with platform teams to consume shared capabilities and contribute reusable patterns back • Ensuring everything shipped is compliant-by-design, auditable and built to standards expected in FCA regulated financial services
Job Requirements
- 10+ years of experience
- Meaningful time building and operating AI/ML systems in production
- Real technical leadership
- Strong hands-on AI/LLM skills: prompt engineering, RAG, model evaluation, and agent frameworks
- Deep expertise in Node.js or Python
- Solid experience in the other
- Comfortable switching contexts depending on what the problem needs
- Cloud-native development on AWS
- Instinct for well-designed, maintainable systems
- Genuine curiosity about AI
- Judgement to separate signal from noise when recommending what to adopt
- Instinct for building responsibly: care about auditability, compliance, and downstream impact
Benefits
- Remote-first working across the UK
- Work abroad policy for a change of scenery
- Co-working spaces available
- 34 days holiday (including flexible bank holidays and your birthday off)
- Company-wide off-sites
- Optional Personal Development Plan
- Flexible benefits platform: choose the benefits that matter most to you
- Life Insurance
- Income protection
- Critical illness cover
- Pension (up to 5% matched employer contribution and optional increased contributions)
- Private health and dental care
- Potential share options
- Enhanced family leave
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