AI & data lead

<h4>Our Mission</h4><h5><strong>Money sitting idle is money lost. We're fixing that.</strong></h5><p>Founded in 2023 by <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoine-michon/">Antoine</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-adrien-hyppolite-71217ab4/">Paul-Adrien</a>, Spiko gives businesses, non-profits, financial advisers, and fintechs access to institutional-grade cash management, via app or API. We are building the full infrastructure: issuing, operating, and distributing the products ourselves.</p><p>Two years after launch, we serve thousands of organizations across Europe and process hundreds of millions of euros in flows every month.</p><p>Our ambition: become the world's leading treasury management infrastructure in a market worth trillions.</p><p>We are backed by Index Ventures, the CEO of Revolut, the founder of Kyriba, and the CTO of Wise.</p><p>Spiko runs on excellence, transparency, and straight talk.</p><h4><strong>The role: </strong>AI &amp; data lead</h4><p>Your mission is simple: <strong>supercharge Spiko with AI.</strong></p><p>We are looking for a senior engineer to join Spiko's tech team and take ownership of our AI and data initiatives. The role sits within the tech team and works with the whole company; the ambition is that you build the AI and data team around you as Spiko scales.</p><h4>Key Responsibilities</h4><ul><li><p><strong>Embed AI into Spiko's product</strong>, to give the CFOs who use Spiko the smoothest cash management experience there is. For example: letting users automate their deposits and withdrawals, run operations in Spiko straight from a prompt, or point their own AI agents at a Spiko MCP server to query positions and perform deposits and withdrawals programmatically.</p></li><li><p><strong>Empower every team to use AI in their day-to-day work</strong>, including legal, sales, marketing and ops. For instance, give our customer support AI-assisted drafting and answering.</p></li><li><p><strong>Keep us at the state of the art in AI-assisted software engineering</strong>, owning the tooling, practices and infrastructure that make AI a force multiplier for the whole tech team.</p></li><li><p><strong>Own our data platform</strong>, evolving and maintaining the analytics infrastructure (BigQuery, Datastream, Metabase, etc.) that makes production data accessible to non-technical teams, and supporting the data initiatives built on top of it.</p></li></ul><h3>Our stack</h3><ul><li><p>Languages and frameworks: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.typescriptlang.org/">Typescript</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://nx.dev/">NX</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://effect.website/">Effect</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://react.dev/">React</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://tailwindui.com/">Tailwind</a></p></li><li><p>Data &amp; AI: <a target="_blank" href="https://cloud.google.com/bigquery">BigQuery</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://cloud.google.com/datastream">Datastream</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.metabase.com/">Metabase</a>, LLM APIs and agent frameworks</p></li><li><p>Infrastructure: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.terraform.io/">Terraform</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://aws.amazon.com/">AWS</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://cloud.google.com/">GCP</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://kubernetes.io/">Kubernetes</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.docker.com/">Docker</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.postgresql.org/">PostgreSQL</a></p></li><li><p>External services: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.ory.sh/">Ory</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.datadoghq.com/">Datadog</a></p></li></ul><p><strong>What's already in place?</strong></p><p>Claude is deployed company-wide and all teams use it daily. A handful already run automated recurring workflows in production. Our product data has been queryable in plain language with Claude for almost a year, which means non-technical teams answer their own questions. You'll find a working base that needs an owner to take it to the next level.</p><h4>Who we’re looking for</h4><h5><strong>Requirements (must-haves):</strong></h5><ul><li><p>You're a software or AI engineer with 5+ years of experience</p></li><li><p>You're comfortable as an individual contributor as well as managing stakeholders both inside and outside the tech team</p></li><li><p>You are very comfortable with cloud data infrastructure</p></li><li><p>You have hands-on experience building with LLMs (agents, RAG, tool use, evaluation) and shipping AI features to production, not just prototypes</p></li><li><p>You can operate autonomously with non-technical stakeholders: understanding a business team's workflow, scoping the right automation, and delivering it</p></li><li><p>You are comfortable working in an English-speaking environment</p></li><li><p>You are curious and eager to learn, with a problem-solving mindset</p></li></ul><h5><strong>Nice to have:</strong></h5><ul><li><p>You have experience taking ownership of a technical domain across a company (platform, data, or AI enablement roles)</p></li><li><p>You have worked with functional programming patterns (we use Effect heavily)</p></li><li><p>You have built and shipped an MCP server, or agent-facing APIs</p></li><li><p>You have experience in capital markets, fintech or Web3</p></li><li><p>You have worked on tech projects in highly regulated environments (e.g. fintech, regtech, healthtech, edtech, etc.)</p></li></ul><h4>What we offer</h4><ul><li><p>💰<strong>Compensation</strong>: Competitive package depending on experience + Stock Options</p></li><li><p>📍 <strong>Offices</strong>: in central Paris &amp; London</p></li><li><p>🏡 <strong>Remote work</strong>: up to 2 days per week and one full remote week per month</p></li><li><p>💻 <strong>The best tech for your job</strong>: latest-generation laptops and industry-leading software</p></li><li><p>🏥 <strong>Health insurance</strong>: 100% covered by Spiko</p></li><li><p>💳 <strong>Monthly Budget</strong> to cover different perks of choice</p></li><li><p>🚇 <strong>Transport</strong>: 50% of public transport pass covered or the Forfait Mobilités Durables (FMD)</p></li><li><p>👥 <strong>Referral Bonus</strong></p></li><li><p>🎊 <strong>Social life</strong>: regular afterworks and biannual offsites</p></li></ul><h4>Our hiring process</h4><ol><li><p>Hiring Manager Interview - 30 min with Nicolas, Tech Lead</p></li><li><p>Product interview - 1h with a senior member of our product team (remote)</p></li><li><p>Coding &amp; System design interview - 2h with two engineers from the team (in person, Paris)</p></li><li><p>AI enablement case - 1h with Victor, Chief of Staff (in person, Paris)</p></li><li><p>Final Interviews with the Founders (in person, Paris or London)</p></li><li><p>Reference Check - we'll reach out to your references to gather further insights</p></li><li><p>Offer 🎉</p></li></ol><p></p><p><em>If something here doesn't match your résumé perfectly but you believe you'd thrive in this role, apply anyway. Tell us why.</em></p>