Director of Engineering, 9fin
Core Product
Data & analytics platform for finance professionals
Open for applications
Data & analytics platform for finance professionals
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help leveraged finance professionals win business, outperform their peers, and save time.
Role
Who you are
- Are a seasoned engineering leader who believes that all engineering leaders should be deeply technical. You will have a technical background in software development and a proven ability to lead multiple teams and managers in complex, high-growth environments
- Demonstrated success in defining, owning and executing technical strategy, scaling systems, and aligning engineering investments with long-term business goals
- Strong organisational design skills, with experience structuring and evolving high-performing, cross-functional engineering org
- Strategic thinker with a keen product and platform sense, capable of balancing user experience, technical architecture, and operational resilience
- Excellent communicator and executive collaborator, skilled at influencing across engineering, product, design, and executive leadership
- Committed to cultivating a culture of excellence, inclusion, and continuous improvement across technical and people domains
- Known for developing senior engineering talent, building succession plans, and empowering leaders to scale their impact
- Track record of driving operational maturity, reliability, and sustainable technical innovation across a growing organisation
What the job involves
- 9fin’s Engineering team has grown rapidly to more than 50 engineers across multiple cross-functional product squads, and we are continuing to expand
- We are seeking a Director of Engineering to set the technical vision and lead multiple high-impact teams responsible for our Core Product area, the foundation that delivers 9fin to our customers
- This role requires a deeply technical leader who thrives in high ownership environments
- You will lead by example, establishing a culture of engineering excellence where teams tackle complex challenges, innovate boldly, and grow their skills
- We are looking for an experienced leader with a proven track record of scaling both systems and teams
- You will define architecture, drive strategy across Core Product, and empower Engineering Leads to deliver at scale while staying close enough to the details to mentor and inspire your teams
- As Director, your role is to amplify the impact of your teams, making strategic decisions that shape the long-term direction of the Core Product area
- You will ensure reliability, enable rapid innovation, and create the conditions for lasting technical and cultural impact
- This is a unique opportunity to help define the future of 9fin and the experience we deliver to our customers
- Provide strategic & technical leadership over multiple engineering teams in the Core Product area, ensuring alignment with company objectives and technical direction
- Develop and scale high-performing, cross-functional engineering teams capable of delivering resilient, maintainable, and scalable systems
- Set the long-term technical vision, driving architectural decisions that enable future growth and system evolution
- Partner with senior product, design, and business leaders to align technical investments with customer value and company strategy
- Foster a culture of engineering excellence through mentorship, standard-setting, and championing robust engineering practices across teams
- Empower and develop Engineering Leads and senior ICs, helping them grow their leadership capabilities and extend their technical reach
- Own and be accountable for hiring the best engineering talent on the market, partnering with the VP Engineering, People and Talent Partners to build world class teams
- Lead large-scale initiatives and programs that span teams and domains, ensuring delivery, performance, and long-term sustainability
- Oversee technical operations and incident response practices across teams, ensuring high system reliability and actionable learning from incidents
- Identify and prioritise systemic improvements to engineering velocity, platform reliability, and developer experience
Salary benchmarks
Our take
9fin’s initial aim was to solve the problem of extracting data out of financial documents. It quickly turned to AI, where computer vision tools can be deployed to find key financial data points - like a company’s sales and revenue - quickly and automatically.
Its AI tools learn to understand the complicated legal clauses in contracts, automating a lot of the manual work that’s usually involved in this space. The result is a platform that debt capital market professionals can use to make quicker and better investment decisions.
9fin is used by leading banks, hedge funds and asset managers around the world - with a 100% deal prediction accuracy record under its belt, it’s easy to understand why. The company has seen significant investment, the most recent of which will support the scaling of its team and expansion of its product into new asset classes, as well as helping it to grow its presence in the US.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
84% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2024
$50m
SERIES B
Dec 2022
$25.3m
SERIES A
Total funding: $88.4m
Company benefits
- Flexible hybrid working policy (no in-office mandate)
- 22 weeks full pay maternity, 12 weeks full pay paternity + shared parental leave
- Learning & development budget
- 25 days off + bank holidays
- Bi-annual team and company socials
- One month paid sabbatical after 5 years of service
- Work abroad for up to 3 months a year
- Bank holiday swap program
- Vitality health insurance
Company values
- Technology doesn't serve the business. Technology is the business: Technology and business are not independent; they are one and the same. We’ve met CEOs who don’t know what language their code is written in and CTOs who don’t know who the customers are. That’s not OK
- Talent trumps experience: We judge people by the quality of their ideas, not the duration of their employment. We’d rather work with people who have spent 12 months being awesome than those who have spent 3 years being average
- Don't know? Say so: Ignorance is only a weakness when you don’t admit it. We’ve seen lots of people waste hours of productivity because they were too afraid to ask for help
- Ship early and often: It’s impossible to design a truly awesome product without customer feedback
- Never settle: The product might have shipped, but it’s never perfect. If we can’t find ways to improve we just aren’t looking hard enough
- Diversity: We don’t discriminate. As well as being an end in itself, varied backgrounds and cultures bring new perspectives and stop group think
- Have an opinion: No decision is off limits to being challenged. Disagreement is healthy, it shows you care
- Beautiful simplicity: If it’s not easy to use, then it’s broken. Consumer applications relentlessly focus on the user with beautiful interfaces and snazzy graphics. There’s no reason why B2B can’t be just as good
- Make time for others: Everyone is busy. But taking 5-10 minutes out of your day to grab a coffee with a colleague who needs advice or help is not too much to ask
- Overcommunicate: Don’t leave people in the dark. It’s better to receive a 10 second note saying “Super busy, but I’ll get to it.” than radio silence
- Family & health come first: No customer or job matters more than family and your health
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Steven Hunter
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Analyst at JP Morgan and an Investment Executive at Babson Capital Investment.
Huss El-Sheikh
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously a Business Analyst at Deutsche Bank for 4 years.
People progressing
Jen joined in 2022 as our Head of People, bringing a wealth of expertise in HR. As her industry knowledge and impact grew, Jen got promoted to COO in 2024 and is now one of our key executive leaders.
Huw joined 9fin as an intern in 2018 (one of our first employees!) 7 years later, he is now our Global Head of Strategic Operations, leading our global expansion.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at 9fin
- At 9fin we are dedicated to building and promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can reach their full potential and truly belong. We recognize that building diverse teams enables a more creative and productive environment. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be who we’re looking for — either for this role, or perhaps another.
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