London / Hybrid | Full-Time | Leadership | AI/ML SaaS | Series A
Permutable Technologies is a cutting-edge AI company helping the world’s top financial institutions make smarter decisions through real-time market intelligence and LLM-driven news analytics. We’re entering a critical phase of growth—and we’re looking for an exceptional VP of Engineering to help us scale from start-up to industry leader.
You’ll lead and grow a talented team, build a world-class engineering culture, and work hand-in-hand with our commercial and product teams to deliver ML/AI-powered tools that solve real-world problems in commodities and financial markets.
What You’ll Be Doing:
* Own the technical strategy and execution across our core products, including real-time API services, forecasting engines, and LLM-driven insights.
* Partner with Product and Data Science to build and deliver the technology roadmap aligned with our strategic priorities.
* Lead and mentor a growing team (currently ~10, with plans to scale), fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and speed.
* Oversee architecture decisions, system scalability, and efficient data infrastructure design.
* Ensure engineering and delivery standards are met consistently while staying hands-on with key decisions.
* Hire top-tier talent and promote an inclusive and collaborative team environment.
* Oversee IT, DevOps, InfoSec, and Customer Engineering, ensuring smooth internal operations and secure infrastructure.
* Represent engineering on the leadership team, communicating clearly across tech, product, and commercial functions.
What You Bring:
* Proven leadership in a SaaS B2B environment, ideally in an AI/ML or data-centric company.
* Experience scaling teams in start-ups or Series A/B growth phases (experience at both start-up and enterprise level is a bonus).
* Deep technical fluency across Python, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (Azure preferred), and scalable architectures.
* Strong understanding of Agile development, continuous delivery, and lean team dynamics.
* People-first leadership style with a track record of mentoring and developing high-performing teams.
* Exposure to machine learning, NLP, or financial data products is highly desirable.
* Ability to operate in ambiguity, balancing rapid execution with strategic long-term thinking.
Tech We Work With:
* Python, React, JS
* AWS/GCP exposure
* Docker, Kubernetes, Postgres
* LLMs, time-series models
* Real-time data pipelines & scalable APIs
Why Join Permutable?
* Work on AI that directly impacts high-stakes decisions in global markets
* Collaborate with elite financial institutions and commodity traders
* Build and scale from the ground up with founder-level influence
* Competitive compensation package