Lead Software Engineer

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who wants to code daily, own architecture, and lead by example.

You ll design and build the core AI-powered platform, set technical standards, and work closely with product, data, and leadership to ship intelligent automation and decision-support tools for a legacy industry.

What You ll Be Doing

You ll lead the architecture of an AI-driven investment intelligence platform while staying deeply hands-on across the entire stack, from frontend UX to backend services, AI integrations, and core infrastructure. Working closely with the CTO, data scientists, and product leadership, you ll help shape both the technical direction and the product itself.

You ll build and mentor a small, elite engineering team, setting a high technical bar through example while driving strategy around scalability, security, and reliability. Along the way, you ll explore and integrate emerging AI frameworks, tools, and blockchain technologies to keep the platform at the cutting edge.

5+ years of professional software engineering experience * 2+ years in a technical or team lead role * Strong ownership mindset; you execute and lead from the front * Excellent communication and decision-making under ambiguity * Node.js, React, and TypeScript * Python for AI workflows and automation * Microservices and distributed system design * Experience with AI / LLM frameworks (e.g. LangChain, OpenAI API, Vertex, LiteLLM) * GCP experience and DevOps best practices (monitoring, observability, CI/CD) * PostgreSQL and relational data modelling * Event-driven systems (Pub/Sub, Kafka) and NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB) * Experience building and running production SaaS platforms

Nice to Have * RAG, autonomous agents, or Model Context Protocol (MCP) * TDD, Agile, and DevOps environments * Blockchain / Web3 integrations or tokenisation frameworks * Cryptography, security, or distributed systems knowledge * Fintech, asset management, or due-diligence automation background