AI Engineering Lead, GenAI Platform

The role

You will lead the GenAI Platform team to build shared foundations for product teams to develop and operate AI-powered products and agents. You will own the team's development, technical direction, and delivery while shaping the platform strategy and roadmap.

What you will do

• 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.
• Own the delivery and operation of reliable, secure and scalable platform capabilities.
• 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 and communicate trade-offs.

Required qualifications

• Experience directly managing software engineers, including hiring, performance management and career development.
• Ability to build a team with clear priorities, give useful feedback and support engineers to take ownership of their work.
• Experience building shared platforms or developer tools that other engineering teams adopted.
• Ability to translate product needs into reusable capabilities and balance immediate delivery with longer-term platform development.
• Experience building or operating complex LLM-powered applications or agent systems in production.
• Understanding of the challenges of non-deterministic systems, including evaluation, quality regressions, tool use, reliability, security and cost.
• Strong backend or infrastructure engineering background, with ownership of distributed production systems in the cloud.
• Understanding of how to operate services reliably, including monitoring, incident response, performance and cost management.
• Technical depth to review designs and code, assess alternatives and help engineers work through difficult problems.
• Ability to communicate trade-offs clearly, build effective partnerships across teams and use evidence to make decisions in ambiguous situations.

Nice to have

• 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

• Competitive Salary
• Equity
• Pension (minimum contributions are 4% with 9fin matching up to 7%)
• Private Medical Insurance
• Paid sick leave with Income Protection for long periods of illness
• Group Life Assurance
• Season Ticket Loan & Cycle to Work schemes
• 25 holiday days per year
• Local public holidays (with the ability to exchange them for alternative days)
• Work abroad for up to 3 months a year
• 1 month paid sabbatical after 5 years of service
• Enhanced parental leave & flexible working arrangements available

About the company

9fin is the AI platform powering global debt markets. The business is scaling at exceptional speed, with rapid expansion in the US and best-in-class retention.