Senior Technical Lead

Aveni
Edinburgh
1 month ago
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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 aSenior 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 theHead 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

  • Providetechnical leadershipacross squads, ensuring alignment with engineering and business priorities.
  • Leadsystem design and architectural decisions, ensuring scalable and maintainable solutions.
  • Mentor and coachTechnical Leads, Senior Engineers, and Engineers, fostering a high-performance engineering culture.
  • Drive best practices insecure coding, DevOps, and cloud-native development.
  • EnsureAI-first engineeringis embedded in development workflows, integrating AI-powered tools like GitHub Copilot.
  • Work closely withProduct and Delivery teamsto scope, refine, and deliver high-quality software solutions.
  • OverseeCI/CD pipelines, observability, and automation, leveraging GitLab runners and AWS infrastructure.
  • Support risk management, ensuringcompliance, security, and operational resiliencewithin engineering teams.

What We’re Looking For

Essential Skills & Experience:

  • Strong experience intechnical leadership, driving best practices across squads.
  • Hands-on expertise infull-stack developmentusingReact, Node.js, and TypeScript.
  • Deep knowledge ofAWS cloud-native services, includingLambda, Step Functions, and DynamoDB.
  • Expertise inCI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment usingGitLab runners.
  • Strong understanding ofsecure coding practicesand compliance inFinTech or regulated industries.
  • Proven experience mentoring and coachingengineers at all levels
  • Knowledge ofobservability, logging, and performance monitoringbest practices.
  • Experience inserverless architecture and event-driven systems.

Desirable Skills:

  • Experience optimisingElasticSearchfor performance and scalability.
  • Familiarity withInfrastructure as Code (IaC)within AWS environments.
  • Exposure toMantine UI frameworkfor scalable front-end solutions.
  • Experience integratingAI modelsinto engineering workflows.
  • Understanding ofAzure and GCP, supporting multi-cloud adoption.
  • Passion forAI, 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!

Core Skills: AWS, Management, Typescript, Node.js, CI/CDOther Skills:Seniority: Lead#J-18808-Ljbffr

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