AI Engineering Lead, GenAI Platform

The Opportunity

The AI Engineering team at 9fin is building the next generation of AI capabilities that will power our products for years to come. We're looking for an Engineering Lead to lead the GenAI Platform team, building the shared foundations that enable product teams to develop and operate AI-powered products and agents.

Reporting to the Head of AI, you'll own the team's development, technical direction and delivery. You'll shape the platform strategy and roadmap, working with product and engineering teams to understand their needs and decide where shared capabilities will have the greatest impact.

You'll combine people leadership with strong engineering judgement, staying close to architecture and code while giving engineers the support and autonomy to do their best work.

Every day is different, but here's an example of the kind of things you'll work on:

• Lead and grow the team through hiring, coaching, feedback and clear expectations for performance and development.

• Set the GenAI platform's direction and priorities, evaluate technical approaches and adapt the roadmap as product needs and evidence evolve.

• Own the delivery and operation of reliable, secure and scalable platform capabilities, balancing quality, performance, cost and speed of development.

• Make the GenAI platform easy for other engineers to adopt and extend through effective APIs, tooling, documentation and clear ownership.

• Partner with AI and evaluation specialists to establish how platform changes are tested, measured and released.

• Work with product, engineering and security colleagues to resolve dependencies, communicate trade-offs and turn emerging needs into sustainable capabilities.

What Makes This Role Different

You'll join an evolving GenAI platform with substantial scope to shape its next stage. You'll help decide what the platform should provide, which approaches to adopt and how the team should grow as 9fin's AI ambitions develop.

Your impact will reach across product teams. By building shared capabilities that engineers trust and choose to use, you'll help teams deliver AI products more quickly and operate them with confidence.

You'll own both people leadership and technical direction, developing the team while remaining closely involved in the engineering decisions that determine the platform's success.

Collaboration & Technical Leadership

• Have the technical depth to review designs and code, assess alternatives and help engineers work through difficult problems.

• Communicate trade-offs clearly, build effective partnerships across teams and use evidence to make decisions in ambiguous situations.

Experience with any of the following would be highly advantageous

• Event-driven architectures or long-running asynchronous workloads

• Secure execution environments and access controls

• AI evaluation, experimentation or observability

• Platforms handling sensitive data in finance or other high-trust environments

Benefits

We’re a scaling start up, and we enjoy sharing our success, when the company succeeds, we always reinvest that in our people. We also offer huge amounts of responsibility, an abundance of opportunity for growth and a platform to truly excel.