Engineer Lead

Aveni is redefining how financial institutions use AI. We build real, production-ready agentic systems that reshape how banks, advisers and financial services firms operate, replacing fragmented processes with intelligent, end-to-end workflows. We have been recognised as Fintech of the Year for two consecutive years and awarded Best Specialist Technology Service at the Professional Adviser Awards 2025. Backed by leading investors including Puma Private Equity, and commercially supported by Lloyds Banking Group and Nationwide Building Society, we previously completed one of Scotland’s largest Series A rounds. Since then, we’ve continued to grow rapidly as adoption of AI in financial services accelerates, and we’re now scaling our team to meet that demand.

We're hiring an Engineering Manager to lead and grow one of our engineering teams. You will own the performance, growth, and culture of your team, working closely with Product and Lead Engineer to create an environment of genuine ownership and high autonomy.

• Own performance, development, and progression of your team.
• Own the individual performance and development of your direct reports, setting a high bar, giving honest feedback, and creating conditions for engineers to grow into real ownership.
• Drive hiring alongside our Recruitment team, contributing to interview process design, and a high-quality candidate experience.
• Set the cultural expectation around AI coding tools, building team-wide norms for responsible, high-quality AI-assisted engineering.

Extensive experience in software engineering, with genuine hands-on technical experience. Proven experience as an Engineering Manager or Team Lead, with real ownership of individual performance and team culture. A track record of building high-trust, high-autonomy teams, not teams that work because of you, but teams that work because of the environment you built.

Experience with js or Python, and React. Experience with Agile/Scrum, and a track record of improving how teams deliver, not just following a process. Genuine excitement about AI coding tools. You use them yourself, you help your team use them well, and you stay current on what's emerging. Growing and unblocking people, building the processes and frameworks that make the team better.

We're building AI systems for a sector where trust and safety genuinely matter and we take that seriously in how we engineer. High-trust, high-autonomy culture: we give engineers real ownership and expect them to use it. AI-native engineering culture. We use AI tools across the full software lifecycle and expect our engineering leaders to lead from the front.

At Aveni, we believe that diversity drives innovation. If you’re passionate about technology and its ability to drive positive change for the future of financial services, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now to join us on our mission to transform the financial services industry through AI.

We’re a remote-first company across the UK, with regular off-sites and in-person gatherings that are always fun, motivating and team-focused.

34 days holiday (including flexible)