Aveni is an award-winning technology company. We use advanced AI to enable scalable efficiency for financial services companies, combining world-leading Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Model (LLM) expertise with deep financial services domain experience to drive enterprise-wide productivity. Aveni harnesses the power of voice to drive unprecedented efficiency and oversight. We’re using the latest in AI to automate and innovate, empowering businesses to achieve exceptional productivity and compliance outcomes.
Summary
As a Senior Technical Lead, you will play a critical role in defining and executing technical strategy across multiple squads. This is a hands-on leadership position where you will collaborate closely with the Head of Engineering,Technical Leads, and cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, scalable software solutions. You will ensure engineering work aligns with architectural standards, best practices, and business objectives while fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide technical leadership across squads, ensuring alignment with engineering and business priorities.
* Lead system design and architectural decisions, ensuring scalable and maintainable solutions.
* Mentor and coach Technical Leads, Senior Engineers, and Engineers, fostering a high-performance engineering culture.
* Drive best practices in secure coding, DevOps, and cloud-native development.
* EnsureAI-first engineering is embedded in development workflows, integrating AI-powered tools like GitHub Copilot.
* Work closely with Product and Delivery teams to scope, refine, and deliver high-quality software solutions.
* Oversee CI/CD pipelines, observability, and automation, leveraging GitLab runners and AWS infrastructure.
* Support risk management, ensuring compliance, security, and operational resilience within engineering teams.
What We’re Looking For
Essential Skills & Experience:
* Strong experience in technical leadership, driving best practices across squads.
* Hands-on expertise in full-stack development using React, Node.js, and TypeScript.
* Deep knowledge of AWS cloud-native services, including Lambda, Step Functions, and DynamoDB.
* Expertise in CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment using GitLab runners.
* Strong understanding of secure coding practices and compliance in FinTech or regulated industries.
* Proven experience mentoring and coaching engineers at all levels
* Knowledge of observability, logging, and performance monitoring best practices.
* Experience in serverless architecture and event-driven systems.
Desirable Skills:
* Experience optimising ElasticSearch for performance and scalability.
* Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) within AWS environments.
* Exposure to Mantine UI framework for scalable front-end solutions.
* Experience integrating AI models into engineering workflows.
* Understanding of Azure and GCP, supporting multi-cloud adoption.
* Passion for AI, machine learning, and developer experience enhancement.
Benefits
What We Offer
* Salary up to £100,000
* A collaborative and innovative work environment
* Career growth opportunities towards Technical Lead and beyond
* Exposure to cutting-edge AI-first engineering practices
* 34 days holiday plus your birthday off
* Share options
* Remote and flexible working
* Life insurance
* Income protection
* Private health care
* Eyecare
* On-going career development and training
* Freebies and discounts
* Emotional wellbeing (Employee assistance programme provides access to 24/7 employee counseling and emotional support)
* Cycle to work scheme
* Pension scheme (employer contribution matched up to 5%)
Join Us in Making a Difference
At Aveni, we believe that diversity drives innovation. We're committed to building a team that reflects the diverse communities we serve and creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best work. If you're passionate about leveraging technology to drive positive change and want to be part of a team that's shaping the future of financial services, we'd love to hear from you. We know that some people are likely to only apply where they meet 100% of requirements, but we’d like to hear from you anyway. Apply now to join us on our mission to transform the financial services industry through AI!
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