Senior AI Engineering Capability Owner

🚀 WE'RE HIRING | Senior AI Engineering Capability Owner | FinTech / Payments

Are you a senior software engineer who is already using AI agents to fundamentally change how software is built, tested and maintained?

We are partnering with an established European financial technology organisation that is looking for an exceptional Senior AI Engineering Capability Owner to help accelerate its transition towards AI-native software engineering.

This is a unique opportunity to work directly with the CTO and play a key role in transforming engineering practices across a live, regulated payments platform.

🎯 THE OPPORTUNITY

The organisation has already established an AI-native engineering foundation, including agent orchestration, automated testing and integrated delivery pipelines.

Your mission will be to take these capabilities further, making AI-assisted engineering an integral part of how the team operates.

You will:

✅ Drive the adoption of AI-native engineering practices across an established engineering team.

✅ Develop and improve AI agent orchestration, engineering workflows and automated delivery pipelines.

✅ Leverage AI agents to document, test, modernise and strengthen complex production systems.

✅ Automate security remediation, testing and compliance evidence generation.

✅ Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency across engineering and business processes.

✅ Establish engineering standards, evaluation frameworks and guardrails for safe AI-assisted development.

✅ Influence and guide fellow engineers through hands-on technical leadership rather than traditional people management.

🔎 WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

We're interested in experienced, technically strong engineers who bring:

🔹 8+ years of software engineering experience, including substantial backend or platform engineering expertise.

🔹 Strong programming experience in Python, Go, Java or TypeScript.

🔹 Proven experience building and deploying LLM-based systems in production, including AI agents, orchestration frameworks and automated workflows.

🔹 Hands-on experience with Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex or similar agentic development tools.

🔹 Experience modernising legacy systems while maintaining business-critical production environments.

🔹 Strong understanding of CI/CD, automated testing, evaluation frameworks and secure software delivery.

🔹 Experience working in regulated environments, ideally FinTech, payments or banking, where security, auditability and compliance are essential.

🔹 The ability to influence engineering teams, challenge existing practices and drive meaningful technical change.

💡 WHO WOULD THRIVE IN THIS ROLE?

You might currently be a:

• Staff / Principal Software Engineer

• Senior / Staff Platform Engineer

• Applied AI Engineer

• AI Platform Engineer

• Lead Backend Engineer

• Senior Agentic AI Engineer

What matters most is not your job title, but your ability to combine deep software engineering expertise with practical, production-level AI experience.

This is NOT an AI research, consultancy, strategy or traditional people management role.

We're looking for someone who still loves writing code, understands the complexity of production systems and can demonstrate how AI agents deliver measurable engineering improvements.

🌍 WHY CONSIDER THIS OPPORTUNITY?

✨ Work directly with the CTO and have genuine ownership over engineering methods.

✨ Help shape the future of AI-native engineering within a regulated financial technology environment.

✨ Work on complex, business-critical systems processing real financial transactions.

✨ Join an organisation that has already invested in AI-native engineering rather than merely talking about it.

✨ Enjoy flexibility to work remotely within compatible European time zones or from Copenhagen.

📩 INTERESTED?

If you're a hands-on engineer passionate about agentic AI, platform modernisation and transforming how engineering teams deliver software, I'd love to hear from you.

Send me a private message and reach out directly for a confidential conversation.

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