Staff Engineer - Core Markets

📋 Description

• Define technical strategy and architecture across Platform, AI, Retrieval, and shared services.
• Partner with Engineering Leaders and Staff Engineers to drive technical direction and platform investments.
• Design scalable backend systems, APIs, and shared platform capabilities.
• Guide architecture across teams, helping reduce complexity and establish common patterns.
• Partner with AI and Retrieval teams to build scalable search and RAG capabilities.
• Lead complex cross-team technical initiatives from design through production.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience designing and building large-scale backend systems and distributed architectures.
• Strong systems design skills and experience leading cross-team technical initiatives.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), Kubernetes, APIs, and modern backend development.
• Familiarity with AI-powered systems, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), search platforms, or vector databases.
• Strong programming experience in Python or another modern backend language.
• Comfortable influencing technical direction without direct authority.

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive Salary (top end of the market)
• Equity options
• Pension (your 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