Head of AI Engineering

Your mission
About neoshare
We’re a Munich-based AI-first fintech scale-up (founded 2019) with offices in Munich, Frankfurt, Berlin and Sofia. Our SaaS platform brings banks, investors, and advisors together to collaborate on complex financial deals making due diligence faster, smarter, and more transparent. Our AI features are already live with leading banks. Now we’re scaling.

The Role
Own and evolve our AI engineering function — transforming a 15–20 person ML team from research-heavy to a high-throughput, production-grade organization. You’ll partner with the CTO on strategy, build the platform that unifies LLM access, RAG, and backend services, and ship reliable, scalable AI features that change how banks work.

Key responsibilities

Team leadership and org build

Hire, mentor, and develop a high-performing team; set the technical bar, operating rhythms, and code/research review practices

Organize sub-teams (e.g., Core Modeling, AI Platform/Infra, Integrations) with clear ownership, SLOs, and on-call

Manage roadmap, capacity planning, and delivery across parallel initiatives

Architecture and platform

Own the LLM gateway: unified APIs and proxy layers for multi-provider routing (OpenAI, Gemini, Bedrock), with rate limits, fallbacks, and cost tracking

Build high-performance RAG pipelines (ingestion, embeddings, vector stores, caching) with robust observability and safety guardrails

Partner with Java/ NestJS teams to define clean async contracts, schemas, and  eventing  patterns; drive low-latency, scalable inference

Model lifecycle and operations

Lead end-to-end model and prompt lifecycle: data curation, training/fine-tuning, evaluation, deployment, rollback

Establish  LLMOps / MLOps : model/prompt registries, CI/CD, canary/A/B tests, offline/online evals, drift and cost monitoring

Optimize inference throughput and cost (autoscaling, batching, quantization/distillation, caching)

Strategy and collaboration

Translate company goals into an AI/ML roadmap with measurable outcomes; balance exploration with reliability and cost

Own build-vs-buy/vendor strategy for models, infrastructure, and data services; manage budgets and SLAs

Governance and security

Implement data privacy, security, and compliance practices (RBAC, secrets, auditability); track prompt/model lineage and reproducibility

Define incident response, runbooks, and postmortems for AI features

Your profile

5+ years as a backend engineer and 4+ years leading AI/ML engineering in production (10+ years total experience ideal)

Deep architecture  expertise  in Java (JVM) and/or Node.js ( NestJS ), distributed systems, APIs, microservices, and messaging/streaming

Hands-on with LLM stacks: orchestration (e.g., LangChain / LlamaIndex or custom), vector DBs (Pinecone, Qdrant , FAISS), cloud AI (e.g., AWS Bedrock)

Proven operation of systems at scale (millions of daily API calls) with strong SLOs, observability, and incident management

MLOps foundations: model registries, experiment tracking, CI/CD, Kubernetes, IaC (e.g., Terraform), security best practices

Excellent communication and stakeholder management; strong product sense focused on shipping user-facing feature

Fluent German and English for daily team collaboration, stakeholder management, and technical documentation

Nice to have

Experience with GPU/accelerator serving and optimization ( vLLM , TGI, Triton, ONNX Runtime)

Cost optimization for LLM workloads (token budgets, dynamic routing, caching)

Evaluation and safety/red-teaming for generative systems; startup/high-growth experience

Impact metrics

Platform: adoption of a unified LLM gateway; standardized observability and cost reporting

Delivery: 2–3 user-facing AI features shipped with clear SLOs and measurable impact

Reliability/cost: reduced average latency and cost per request; autoscaling and caching in place

Org: sub-team structure established ; improved code quality and on-time delivery; targeted hiring completed

Our stack

Backend: Java (JVM), Node.js ( NestJS ); event-driven microservices; API gateways/proxies

AI platform: Python, PyTorch , LLM orchestration, prompt pipelines/registry; vector DBs (Pinecone, Qdrant ); RAG services

Infra/DevOps: AWS (incl. Bedrock), Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, Observability ( OpenTelemetry , Prometheus/Grafana)

Why us

Because we value talent more than hierarchy.

Because at neoshare, responsibility isn't delegated - it's owned.

Because we use modern AI and technology as a lever for exceptional results.

Because we develop people who want to learn, grow, and deliver.

Because performance, quality, and impact belong together for us.

Because we are working together towards building a European tech champion.

What You Can Expect

Performance-driven, above-average compensation that rewards outstanding commitment.

High-end offices designed to support collaboration, wellbeing, and peak performance - including great health and fitness benefits.

Legendary team events where we celebrate our wins together and strengthen team spirit.

State-of-the-art AI tools, first-class equipment, and an environment that fosters ownership and personal growth.

Concentration of top talent, fast decision-making, and the chance to make a real impact early on.

Candidates must have the right to work in the EU; visa sponsorship is not provided for this role.

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