Tech Lead, Unique AI
RAG & Knowledge Ingestion
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3 days a week in office
Agentic AI for financial services
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Agentic AI for financial services
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower Financial Services by delivering cutting-edge, AI-powered solutions that streamline operations and drive innovation.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience with strong expertise in TypeScript and Node.js
- Experience as a technical lead for a backend or platform domain, with ownership of architecture, technical direction, and mentoring
- Strong experience building ingestion or unstructured data pipelines, ideally involving document parsing across formats such as PDF, Office documents, HTML, or email
- Strong database, indexing, and retrieval experience across PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Qdrant, or similar systems
- Experience improving retrieval quality in production using embeddings, vector search, or RAG-style retrieval systems
- System design maturity: you can design for scale, failure handling, service boundaries, and pragmatic trade-offs under real constraints
- Multi-tenant SaaS experience: you understand data isolation, tenant-scoped processing, and enterprise security requirements
What the job involves
- We're looking for a backend-focused tech lead to own the technical direction of this platform end to end
- This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will set architecture, guide implementation across the core ingestion services, mentor engineers through design and code review, and drive improvements in reliability, throughput, retrieval quality, and maintainability
- Technical leadership: Define and own the RAG platform’s architecture and standards, make trade-offed design decisions, drive high-impact backend improvements across the pipeline, and communicate a clear technical roadmap
- Hands-on backend engineering: Build and evolve ingestion, processing, and retrieval services/APIs, strengthen async pipelines (RabbitMQ, retries, backpressure), enhance parsers, and optimize indexing on Qdrant/Elasticsearch for quality and latency
- Retrieval and document intelligence: Partner with AI engineers to advance chunking, embeddings, metadata, and RAG patterns; integrate Python services for agentic workflows; improve retrieval via better indexing/enrichment/evaluation and adopt OCR/layout/table extraction when it moves the needle
- Technical leadership for the team: Mentor and unblock engineers through reviews and pairing, elevate reliability/performance/observability/testing, and support hiring and onboarding without primary people-management duties
- Platform ownership: Run production delivery via Helm/Kubernetes and ArgoCD GitOps, enhance observability with OpenTelemetry/Prometheus/logging/alerts, and enforce multi-tenant data isolation, security, and auditability end to end
Our take
Zurich-based Unique AI is a fintech solutions firm leveraging the power of AI to help companies optimise their middle and back office processes. Through a suite of AI agents, Unique’s solutions help financial institutions tackle complicated problems and enhance the customer experience, all whilst maintaining the highest standards of compliance.
What helps Unique stand out in the world of AI agents is its combination of flexible use case agents and customisable deployments. Its agile agents can be programmed to 25 specific use cases, many of which are common workload pilers for financial institutions, whilst the customisability of the platform means they can also be configured to unique problems encountered by clients.
With $30 million in Series A raised in 2025, Unique is planning to accelerate its plans for product development and market growth, with a focus on entering the US in the near future. With 40+ leading European clients, the company’s agile product shows promise and effectiveness.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2025
$30m
SERIES A
Dec 2023
$6.5m
SEED
Total funding: $52.5m
Company benefits
- Leading Company 💪 A chance to be part of a leading company in a rapidly evolving industry
- 5 additional educational days
- Hybrid set up 🧑💻🏢
- Culture 🌿 A modern company with flat hierarchies that focuses on a people-oriented culture and places great emphasis on transparency and open communication
- Innovative & Impactful Projects 🚀 Engage in groundbreaking projects within the Generative AI space. Contribute towards building the foundations enabling financial institutions to operationalize AI.
Company values
- We respect and value everybody's uniqueness - We know that diversity is a gain and makes us stronger as a team.
- We are a team of entrepreneurs - The success of our company depends on every single one of us.
- We foster sustainable business through integrity and loyalty - We aim to build long-term relationships with customers, employees and other partners.
Company HQ
Enge, Zürich, ZH
Leadership
Manuel Grenacher
(Co-Founder & CEO)Is also a Board Member of LAAZ Mountain Vision for Weisse Arena Group, Founder & Board Member at Core Systems AG and BenLink.
Michelle Heppler
(Co-Founder & CCO)Previously the Co-Founder and CCO of Pathmate Technologies, was a Senior Account Manager at Swisscom and an IT Business Lead for Daimler AG.
Andreas Hauri
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously Head of Intelligence Services at SAP, was the CEO & Co-Founder of ambrpay and a Board Member & Investor for ph. ltd. Was also a Startup Mentor for two years at the Fintech10 Incubator & Accelerator
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