About Nviya Prime
Nviya Prime is a startup FinTech that is building a new generation of AI based predictive intelligence platforms for corporates and their financial service providers. Our predictive, proactive, continuous software connects external market events, internal corporate risks and new growth and sales opportunities. This is a genuinely exciting opportunity to join a ground-breaking early-stage AI FinTech start-up; to shape our product and future; and influence the industry.
The founding team has a very strong track record, comprising a former senior at Booz & Company and EY, a former senior executive at IBM and a senior law partner. This team brings extensive experience in Financial Services, Cloud and AI and Private Equity.
Nviya Prime
About the role
We are now looking for a CTO to join the team full-time as a co-founder to help take the business to the next level and beyond. This is a critical hands-on senior leadership role for the company with responsibility for the technology strategy, product design, development, testing and operation, The right individual will have a strong track record of commercial product development in AI with extensive experience in application integration at scale into client technology stacks; security/regulatory and public cloud. You will need to have led agile fast-paced development teams with high energy and purpose. You will need to have deep financial services industry domain experience through multiple client engagements. You will also need to have taken a FinTech start-up from inception through to exit at least once in your career.
What's involved
· Oversee product development and innovation
· Key member of the leadership team: technology and product leadership and external stakeholder engagement (clients, investors, strategic partners)
· Attract and build an outstanding technical team
· Direct client implementations at scale
Requirements
Technical
· Proven experience in scalable cloud architecture design and deployment, systems integration into client tech stack
· Understanding of LLM engineering:
o Prompt/assistant design: data engineering, context engineering
o RAG
o Agentic workflows
o Evaluation & observability: human-in-the-loop review, automatic graders, regressions on hallucination/coverage/latency/cost
o Model strategy: closed vs. open, routing/ensembles, fine‑tuning criteria, multi-vendor abstraction, safety filters
· Depth in platform engineering and security architecture; credible with client security teams
· Track record of real-world delivery of enterprise software that meets scalability & reliability standards, e.g. autoscaling APIs, cloud containers or GPU/CPU pools etc.
· Understanding of data systems : SQL/object storage, vector databases, lineage, retention policies
· Hands-on full stack coding skills; the initial phase will involve substantial coding
Non-technical
· Domain expertise: deep understanding of the wholesale financial services industry, in particular CIB sales, sales support and finance research workflows
· Track record of shipping secure enterprise software in finance or similarly regulated domains, e.g. building, deploying and scaling up 1-2 technology platforms in financial services (including experience communicating and negotiating with banking IT and compliance teams)
· Track record in recruiting and nurturing a stellar technical team
Benefits
· Competitive salary
· Equity
· Co-founder - opportunity to shape the product and business
· Flexible, hybrid working