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Senior Software Engineer (Search Platform)
9fi*** · London, ENG, United Kingdom
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London, ENG, United KingdomHybrid
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Job summary
About 9fi*** 9fi*** is the AI platform powering global debt markets — the world’s largest asset class at over $145 trillion. Debt markets are vast, global, and mission-critical, yet still run on fragmented data, PDFs, and manual workflows.
Benefits
We’re a scaling start up and we enjoy sharing our success, when the company succWe also offer huge amounts of responsibility, an abundance of opportunity for grFinancial & InsuranceCompetitive Salary (our salary bands are benchmarked at the top end of the markeEquity optionsPension (your minimum contributions are 4% with 9fin matching up to 7%)Private Medical InsurancePaid sick leave with Income Protection for long periods of illnessGroup Life AssuranceSeason Ticket Loan & Cycle to Work schemesTime off25 holiday days per year
Qualifications
- You must have:
- Experience designing and building search infrastructure — the data pipelines that feed it, the APIs that expose it, and the operational tooling that keeps it healthy.
- Experience with Python and modern web frameworks (we use FastAPI with strong typing and Pydantic — but we'd rather hire the right search engineer and have them pick up the language than compromise on search depth).
- Experience with cloud-managed search deployments (we run on Elastic Cloud / AWS).
Responsibilities
- Our retrievals team is responsible for making millions of financial documents (bond deals, credit reports, legal filings, earnings transcripts) searchable and retrievable across the platform.
- This means you will:
- You'll make the architectural decisions about how documents are indexed, searched, and served, and you'll be accountable for the system's performance, reliability, and relevance at scale.
- You'll design the interfaces, services, and guardrails that make the retrieval layer usable, reliable, and self-service where possible.
- You'll have direct input into the technical roadmap.
- You'll be a senior IC with real influence on engineering standards.
- Not just usage — you've been responsible for how the system is designed, operated, and scaled.
Skills
ExcelLeadership
Industry
BankingEnergyInsurance
Company size
Smb
Contract length
3 months