Senior Technical Lead

We’re looking for an exceptional Senior Technical Lead to join our iGenius Team in Spain.

In this role you’ll lead the buildout and delivery of robust backend systems and infrastructure that power our foundational models and agentic AI offerings for financial services deployments. This is a hands-on leadership role blending software engineering and DevOps expertise. You’ll be responsible for designing scalable tools, deploying containerized systems, and ensuring production-grade reliability for complex AI workloads in financial services. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect, build, and scale backend systems and APIs to support high-throughput AI services and agentic orchestration platforms.
• Lead DevOps efforts including CI/CD pipelines, observability, infrastructure-as-code, and production deployment best practices.
• Drive containerization strategy using Docker and Kubernetes, optimizing resource utilization and reliability.
• Collaborate with ML, product, and research teams to operationalize AI models and inference workloads.
• Ensure security, monitoring, and high availability in all deployed services.

Requirements

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in backend development and infrastructure engineering, with a strong track record of building and deploying containerized microservices in production.
• Proficient in languages such as Python, Go, or Java, with deep understanding of API development, message queues, and event-driven architectures.
• Strong expertise in DevOps practices: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or similar), logging and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Experience deploying services in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including autoscaling, networking, and secrets management.
• Familiarity with LLM infrastructure (e.g. model inference, vector DBs, or agent runtime orchestration) is a strong plus.
• Excellent technical leadership, communication, and mentorship skills.
• Fluency in Spanish and English required; Italian or any other European language a strong plus.

Benefits

Compensation

iGenius offers a competitive compensation structure, including salary, performance-based bonuses, and additional components based on experience.

About iGenius

iGenius is a deep-tech company specialized in the development of Artificial Intelligence solutions for companies operating in highly regulated industries, including financial services, government, or heavy industry. iGenius’ main product, Unicorn, offers tailored solutions for companies looking to integrate AI safely and effectively, mainly through two proprietary Large Language Models (LLMs). Italia 10B, is a multi-language model optimized for regulated sectors and elevated computational efficiency, while Colosseum 355B, built with latest-generation NVIDIA technology, is fit for mission-critical use cases. In addition to Unicorn, iGenius’ product offer includes Crystal, an AI agent for Decision Intelligence that analyzes business data in natural language and accurately supports strategic, insight-driven decision-making. In December 2024, iGenius joined forces with NVIDIA to build Colosseum – one of the largest AI supercomputers in the world – to support the deployment of its models with unrivaled speed, performance, and efficiency. 

Active in both Europe and the United States, iGenius is one of the leading AI unicorns in the European landscape, and  has attracted Fortune 500 companies, including Allianz and Intesa Sanpaolo. This led Gartner to recognize iGenius as a “Cool Vendor” in the  AI Core Technologies category, as well as mention the company in its Market Guide for Conversational AI. 

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