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Machine Learning Engineer - FTC

Allica Bank
City of London
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About Allica Bank

Allica is the UK’s fastest growing company and the fastest‑growing financial technology (Fintech) firm ever. Our purpose is to help established SMEs, one of the last major underserved opportunities in Fintech.


Department Description

We’re building the next generation of intelligent financial tools for SMEs, starting with an AI‑powered Treasurer. Our platform will give business owners real‑time visibility across accounts, AI‑native cashflow forecasting, and smart treasury optimisations – redefining how small and medium‑sized businesses manage money.


Role Description

  • Build and deploy ML and LLM‑powered applications that deliver actionable financial insights and decision support.
  • Work end‑to‑end across the stack: from prompt design and fine‑tuning models, to architecting scalable inference infrastructure and designing evaluation frameworks.
  • Rapidly prototype and iterate with product and design to bring new AI‑native features to life.
  • Ensure enterprise‑grade reliability and low latency in real‑world, high‑stakes financial settings.
  • Play a central role in shaping our engineering culture, technical direction, and AI stack.

Personal Attributes & Experience

  • Seasoned ML engineers or standout graduates – talent, drive, and hunger to build at the frontier of AI.
  • Strong technical ability in machine learning, NLP, or large language models.
  • Hands‑on experience with Python, PyTorch/TensorFlow, Hugging Face, LangChain, or similar frameworks.
  • Build robust evaluation frameworks to assess model performance beyond accuracy – focusing on explainability, fairness, and financial reliability.
  • Develop guardrails and fail‑safes to ensure AI outputs are trustworthy in high‑stakes financial contexts.
  • Work on model interpretability and explainability, making sure SMEs can understand the ‘why’ behind the insights.
  • High agency, ownership and curiosity: comfortable working in ambiguous, fast‑moving environments.

Bonus Points For

  • Experience shipping LLM applications in production.
  • Contributions to ML/AI projects and/or a portfolio of ML projects you’ve worked on.
  • Achievements in competitive programming, STEM olympiads, or other indicators of exceptional technical ability.
  • Peer‑reviewed publications.

This is a 12‑month fixed‑term role.


Working at Allica Bank

  • Full onboarding support and continued development opportunities
  • Options for flexible working
  • Regular social activities
  • Pension contributions
  • Discretionary bonus scheme
  • Private health cover
  • Life assurance
  • Family friendly policies including enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave

Flexible working

We know the ‘9-to‑5’ isn’t right for everyone. That’s why Allica Bank is fully committed to flexible and hybrid working. Please let us know what is best for you and, if we can, we will do our best to accommodate.


Diversity

We’re a diverse bunch here at Allica Bank, with all kinds of experiences, backgrounds and lifestyles. Our openness and differences make us stronger, and we want everybody to feel comfortable bringing as much of themselves to work with us as they like.


Seniority level

  • Entry level

Employment type

  • Full‑time

Job function

  • Engineering and Information Technology


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