As the most senior AI hire, you will architect a sophisticated multi-agent orchestration layer for regulated financial institutions. Moving beyond simple wrappers, you'll solve high-stakes technical challenges in document intelligence, automated underwriting, and hallucination detection. This is a hands-on leadership role shaping the future of a platform already trusted by marquee enterprise banks.
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Staff AI Engineer at Covecta
Are you a deep AI specialist tired of building basic LLM wrappers? This Salesforce Ventures-backed fintech is building something much harder: a sophisticated multi-agent orchestration platform already being used by enterprise banks like Metro Bank. From solving document intelligence on 200-page credit memos to building auditable reasoning trails, you will lead the technical direction of a platform that delivers 60-80% time savings for mission-critical banking operations.
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Location
London, United Kingdom
Compensation
£120k-£150k + Equity
Company
Covecta
Role overview
15-30 employees
Covecta is on a mission to transform how financial services operates. Founded by industry leaders from Mambu, McKinsey, and Finastra, our AI agents are built with deep banking expertise — tackling complex, manual processes across customer acquisition, onboarding, decisioning, and servicing. Teams are seeing up 70% time savings on tasks and we're already trusted by leading institutions including Metro Bank. We've raised $6.5M in seed funding led by Salesforce Ventures.
We're a growing, fast-moving team based in London ready to take on a $36 trillion industry that's long overdue for change.
What you will do
- Design and own the core agentic orchestration engine that coordinates dozens of specialized agents across complex financial lifecycles and human-in-the-loop workflows.
- Build advanced NLP and OCR pipelines to extract structured reasoning and data from messy financial paperwork, bank statements, and 200-page credit memos.
- Establish rigorous evaluation and alignment frameworks to ensure auditable AI decision trails, meeting the strict trust thresholds required by global financial institutions.
Who this is a fit for
- Deep hands-on expertise shipping production-grade AI systems, specifically focusing on NLP, agentic architectures, or information extraction rather than just basic API integration.
- Strong research instinct and architectural judgment, capable of translating emerging techniques in hallucination detection and structured reasoning into reliable, scalable production code.
- Proven ability to operate with high ownership in a fast-paced environment, making consequential technical decisions while contributing as a high-impact individual programmer every day.
Why this role is remarkable
- Lead AI strategy at a startup that scaled from MVP to paying enterprise customers like Metro Bank in under a year, targeting a $36 trillion industry.
- Work directly with a founding team of former Mambu, McKinsey, and Accenture leaders who have previously scaled fintech valuations from €1.9bn to €4.7bn.
- Tackle genuinely hard engineering problems in a high-stakes regulated environment where accuracy, explainability, and multi-step reasoning are mission-critical requirements.
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I get to know what you’re great at, then find roles you’d never find yourself.Ok, I'll go first. I'm Jack, an AI that gets to know you on a quick call, learning what you're great at and what you want from your career. Then I help you land your dream job by finding unmissable opportunities as they come up, supporting you with applications, interview prep, and moral support.
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Jill is the AI recruiter working for the company. She recruits from Jack’s network.
If your profile’s a match and Covecta wants to meet, Jill will make the intro. In the meantime, Jack will send you excellent alternatives.