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alcova.ai

alcova.ai

Other Engineering
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Posted on Apr 24, 2025

We are an ambitious, US VC-backed startup building domain-specific AI for the Wealth Management sector, tackling critical niche, industry challenges with an agentic approach. Our core AI and Product engineering team is being established in Melbourne, offering a unique opportunity to be part of a locally run, yet global operation.

The Opportunity:

As a Founding Engineer you'll play a senior role in defining our technical direction, product roadmap, and engineering culture from day one.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, and deploy core infrastructure, supporting agents, and scalable applications tailored for financial services, applying best practices in system design and software engineering.
  • Lead the delivery of high-performance AI systems, balancing cutting-edge AI/ML innovation with practical, customer-centred solutions and robust supporting tech.
  • Influence the company's strategic technical direction.
  • Help design, hire, and scale our world-class Melbourne engineering team.
  • Be a key technical leader, mentor, and innovator, fostering creativity and pragmatic problem-solving.

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent Engineering discipline.
  • 5+ years of hands-on software development experience working across the stack.
  • Proven track record shipping and maintaining high-performance production applications.
  • Resilience, determination and a proactive, positive approach to teamwork and problem-solving.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Proven technical leadership on large-scale systems; financial services experience not a requirement.
  • Deep expertise in Product Engineering and have had demonstrated experience across information security and distributed systems.
  • Exceptional communication and mentoring skills.

What We Offer:

  • Unique chance to join an early-stage, dynamic start-up culture with a competitive compensation package with equity.
  • Significant influence on technical strategy, product direction, and company impact.
  • Opportunity to define engineering practices and shape our innovative, collaborative culture.
  • Flexible working arrangements and a close-knit, ambitious team.