Lead Software Engineer

🕒 March 24

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Aveni

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💸 Finance

☁️ SaaS

Artificial Intelligence • Finance • SaaS

<Aveni> is a technology company that builds NLP-powered, compliance-focused AI solutions for the financial services industry. It offers products such as Aveni Assist (an AI meeting assistant that automates adviser admin, CRM updates and report generation), Aveni Detect (automated QA, risk and vulnerability detection across customer interactions) and FinLLM (a finance-specific language model). Aveni provides ready-to-deploy and bespoke/co-developed AI for SMEs, mid-sized firms and enterprises, emphasizing data security, traceability and regulatory/compliance monitoring (Consumer Duty) to improve adviser productivity and quality assurance.

📋 Description

• 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

🎯 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