At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the development of an AI-native SaaS product for financial services.
- Company: Innovative fintech company transforming investment vehicles with cutting-edge technology.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working, and the chance to build a team from scratch.
- Other info: Opportunity for significant career growth in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Why this job: Join a startup within a startup and shape the future of finance with AI.
- Qualifications: Proven entrepreneurial experience and deep technical expertise in AI and systems architecture.
The predicted salary is between 80000 - 100000 £ per year.
Chief AI Engineer / Chief AI Officer / AI CTO / Head of AI Fintech Client | Technology & Product
Location: London (5 days/week in office, with flexibility when required) | Full-time | Reports to: CEO The Opportunity Our client is a financial technology company building investment vehicles for retail and institutional investors in the private markets, serving the world's leading asset managers, global banks, and alternative investment firms.
They are now building the next-generation platform to insource fund administration currently outsourced to third parties, transforming the company into the book of record.
It is an AI-native enterprise Saa S product designed to slot plug-and-play into an established blue-chip client base, with commercial potential materially larger than the existing offering.
This is being built as a ring-fenced startup within a startup: a self-contained team operating under the CEO with full autonomy, backed by an established brand, funding, and enterprise client base.
As Chief AI Engineer you will be the technical co‐founder, architecting and building the product from the ground up and hiring the team that ships it.
This is an entrepreneurial journey with real unknowns, ups and downs.
We are looking for a builder who wants that.
Must Haves These five are non‐negotiable: Entrepreneurial track record.
You have built something from nothing, ideally as a founder or founding engineer.
You are comfortable with ambiguity, thrive without process, and know what it takes to go from zero to product.
Proven leadership.
Deep experience hiring and building world‐class technical teams from scratch, and developing them into high performers.
Intense systems architecture expertise.
Serious architectural depth across databases, middleware, cloud infrastructure, and system integration.
You design systems and write code today, not from a distance.
Azure.
Strong working knowledge of the Microsoft ecosystem: Azure, Azure AI Foundry, data services, and cloud infrastructure.
Must‐have, not nice‐to‐have.
AI‐native development.
Deeply embedded in the new phase of AI software engineering, sometimes called AI SDLC or AI DLC.
AI‐first across the full lifecycle: coding, testing, workflow automation, and data processing.
Shipping AI‐native products, not AI‐augmented ones.
The Role You will own the technical architecture end to end, leveraging our client's existing Azure infrastructure and data lake while making independent calls on new tooling.
You will ship at startup speed, take an AI‐first approach to every layer of the product, make build‐vs‐buy decisions across the stack, and hire and lead a small, high‐calibre team alongside a business lead and the CEO.
The product covers investor onboarding, KYC/AML, share register management, and fund administration, built as a scalable enterprise Saa S offering for large financial institutions.
Nice to Have Domain knowledge in financial services would be valuable: KYC/AML, fund administration, investor onboarding, share registries, or private markets infrastructure, and experience integrating third‐party compliance and identity verification tooling.
Not required, but it would shorten the run‐up.
A Note on Confidentiality Our client's name is not disclosed at this stage.
Full details, including the company name and strategic context, are shared with shortlisted candidates once an initial conversation with We Are Agentic has taken place and both sides agree to progress. #J-18808-Ljbffr
Chief AI Engineer / Chief AI Officer / AI CTO / Head of AI in London employer: We Are Agentic
Join a dynamic fintech startup in the heart of London, where innovation meets opportunity. As a Chief AI Engineer, you'll not only lead the technical vision but also shape a collaborative culture that values autonomy and rapid delivery. With a focus on employee growth and the chance to build an elite team from the ground up, this role offers a unique platform for meaningful contributions in a thriving industry.
