VP of Engineering (London)

Permutable Technologies is a cutting-edge AI company helping the world’s top financial institutions make smarter decisions through real-time market intelligence and LLM-driven news analytics. We’re entering a critical phase of growth - and we’re looking for an exceptional VP of Engineering to help us scale from start-up to industry leader.

You’ll lead and grow a talented team, build a world-class engineering culture, and work hand-in-hand with our commercial and product teams to deliver ML/AI-powered tools that solve real-world problems in commodities and financial markets.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Own the technical strategy and execution across our core products, including real-time API services, forecasting engines, and LLM-driven insights.
• Partner with Product and Data Science to build and deliver the technology roadmap aligned with our strategic priorities.
• Lead and mentor a growing team (currently ~10, with plans to scale), fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and speed.
• Oversee architecture decisions, system scalability, and efficient data infrastructure design.
• Ensure engineering and delivery standards are met consistently while staying hands-on with key decisions.
• Hire top-tier talent and promote an inclusive and collaborative team environment.
• Oversee IT, DevOps, InfoSec, and Customer Engineering, ensuring smooth internal operations and secure infrastructure.
• Represent engineering on the leadership team, communicating clearly across tech, product, and commercial functions.

Requirements:

• Proven leadership minimum 8 solid years experience in a SaaS B2B environment, ideally in an AI/ML or data-centric company.
• Experience scaling teams in start-ups or Series A/B growth phases (experience at both start-up and enterprise level is a bonus).
• Deep technical fluency across Python, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (Azure preferred), and scalable architectures.
• Strong understanding of Agile development, continuous delivery, and lean team dynamics.
• People-first leadership style with a track record of mentoring and developing high-performing teams.
• Exposure to machine learning, NLP, or financial data products is highly desirable.
• Ability to operate in ambiguity, balancing rapid execution with strategic long-term thinking.

About the Company: Permutable AI is a fast-growing, deep-tech company at the forefront of AI-driven market intelligence. We empower the world’s leading financial institutions - hedge funds, asset managers, investment banks, and commodity traders - with real-time insights that drive smarter, faster decision-making. Our platform leverages cutting-edge natural language processing and large language models to transform global news and unstructured data into structured, actionable intelligence across commodities, macroeconomics, currencies, and digital assets.

We’re building tools that don’t just react to markets - they anticipate them. Our flagship product, Trading Co-Pilot, delivers real-time sentiment analysis, predictive forecasts, and narrative detection that help our clients stay ahead of market-moving events. With a team of world-class engineers, data scientists, and commercial strategists, we’re on a mission to redefine how institutions understand and act on information at scale.

At Permutable, you’ll be joining an ambitious and collaborative environment where innovation moves fast, impact is immediate, and next-generation technology is at the core of everything we do. As we scale, we’re continuously investing in our infrastructure, research, and people - making this an exciting time to join our journey.