Applied AI Manager, 9fin
+ Equity
AI-native intelligence platform for modern credit teams
Open for applications
AI-native intelligence platform for modern credit teams
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help leveraged finance professionals win business, outperform their peers, and save time.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a Lead AI Engineer to accelerate our application of AI across teams and products
- Come and join us, you will get to build large-scale AI powered systems, learn and apply the latest techniques, and work alongside other great researchers and engineers!
- Have proven experience leading engineering teams in a high-growth, fast-paced environment
- Care deeply about people development - mentoring engineers, conducting thoughtful performance reviews, and building inclusive, high-performing teams
- Combine strong software engineering skills (Python preferred) with deep knowledge of AI/ML frameworks, GenAI tooling, and modern data/infra stacks
- Have hands-on experience building and deploying ML/GenAI systems in production, ideally in domains with high complexity (finance, legal, or similar data-heavy spaces)
- Lead architectural discussions and technical trade-offs while staying close enough to dive into details when needed
- Know your way around cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and modern MLOps practices
- Thrive in a collaborative, startup-style environment: adaptable, decisive, and excited to work cross-functionally to deliver real business impact
What the job involves
- The Data Science team is growing at 9fin! We are doing world-class work with groundbreaking technologies to build data-driven products using machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, speech and audio, and knowledge/data mining
- Lead the design and delivery of complex ML and GenAI systems, ensuring solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned with business goals
- Guide the team in end-to-end model development - from experimentation and evaluation through deployment and monitoring - with a focus on reproducibility and reliability
- Drive architectural decisions for data-intensive, AI-driven applications, making informed trade-offs between cutting-edge approaches and practical production readiness
- Mentor and grow engineers across levels, sharing best practices in software engineering, ML/AI, and cloud infrastructure
- Collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders across the company to shape roadmaps, scope ambitious projects, and balance technical innovation with delivery
- Champion engineering excellence - from coding standards and CI/CD pipelines to observability and incident management - creating a culture of technical rigor and continuous improvement
- Be a visible technical leader within 9fin, pushing forward the adoption of AI/ML across teams and influencing company-wide strategy
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 point 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 involve in this space. 9fin also has a team of journalists and analysts who product news and analysis that help make sense of complex situations. The result is an integrated 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. 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, Latin America, and Asia Pacific.
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
$24.9m
SERIES A
Total funding: $88.1m
Company benefits
- Flexible hybrid working policy
- 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.
- Our culture is built on 11 core values that include "Diversity" and "Family & health come first," which guide everything we do. We believe in fostering a supportive and inclusive work environment with genuinely kind, diverse and friendly people.
- Over the past 12 months, we've hired significantly and made a conscious effort to improve diversity and candidate experience. We implemented unconscious bias training, enhanced parental leave, and diversified our sourcing channels—resulting in an increase in female representation on our engineering team from 17% to 27%. We've got a long way to go but are proud of this start, and will continue improving as we scale!
- 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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