Lead Engineer at Fenergo in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Lead Engineer

About us

At Fenergo, we’re not just building software—we’re transforming how the world’s leading financial institutions fight financial crime. Headquartered in Dublin and trusted by over 100 of the world’s top financial institutions, we’re on a mission to change the game.

We’re more than a global leader in AI-powered client lifecycle management—we’re reimagining how financial institutions tackle compliance. From Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) to rapidly evolving regulations, we turn complexity into clarity. Our FinCrime Operating System, powered by agentic AI and intelligent automation, helps financial institutions move faster, act smarter, and stay safer across 120+ countries.

But we don’t stop there.

At Fenergo, we believe in a world where financial institutions aren’t just compliant—they’re confident. Where technology doesn’t just meet regulations—it stays ahead of them. Our mission is to empower financial institutions to stop financial crime and create a safer world.

Every product we build, every innovation we deliver, and every partnership we forge is shaped by that belief. We’re tackling some of the toughest challenges in financial technology. From speeding up onboarding to uncovering hidden risks, our work empowers banks to serve their customers with speed, integrity, and peace of mind.

Join us, and be part of a team that’s building smart solutions, solving real problems, and shaping the future—together.

What Does this Role Entail

Fenergo is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Technical Team Lead to lead and mentor a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, growth, and technical excellence. You will work closely with Product teams to deliver scalable, high-performance enterprise SaaS solutions that help fight financial crime through Transaction Monitoring. The ideal candidate will be a strong technical leader with experience in building innovative software products, driving technical excellence, and collaborating across Engineering and Product to align technical delivery with business objectives. As a Lead Engineer, you’ll have the engineers in your team reporting directly to you, and you’ll lead them in designing, building and running secure, scalable cloud services on AWS. You’ll stay hands-on with the code and help shape how we use AI across engineering.

This is an exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies, contribute to Fenergo's growth, and make a meaningful impact in the fight against financial crime.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of scalable, resilient, and secure SaaS solutions on AWS, and own key technical decisions and their trade-offs with the team and across teams.

• Translate business strategy into a clear technical roadmap. Work closely with Product to refine requirements, test assumptions and share accountability for outcomes.

• Deliver predictably and to a high standard: manage scope and priorities, remove blockers, and adapt plans as new information emerges.

• Lead, mentor, line-manage and grow a high-performing engineering team, give clear direction and regular feedback, and support each engineer's career development.

• Make sure the team meets the security, data-protection and resilience standards our regulated financial-services clients expect.

• Own production health: observability, reliability, incident response and continuous improvements.

• Champion engineering best practice in code quality, testing and CI/CD, balancing speed of delivery with long-term maintainability.

• Drive effective, everyday use of AI-assisted development across the team (e.g. AI coding assistants, AI-assisted code review, test generation and agent-based workflows), with clear guardrails and measurable gains in productivity and quality.

• Build a culture of ownership, open technical debate and experimentation, where both successes and failures are shared and learned from. Model Fenergo's values in how you communicate and make decisions.

Requirements

Key expectations

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including [2–3+] years leading engineering teams that build SaaS products.

• Strong, hands-on Python development skills. Familiarity with a modern front-end framework (e.g. React) is a plus.

• Solid experience with AWS and its services, such as Lambda, DynamoDB, Redshift, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, SNS and SQS.

• A strong grasp of system design, event-driven architecture, and operational tradeoffs, with solid judgement on architecture, tooling and technical investment.

• Strong hands-on use of AI coding tools in daily development, with a clear approach to using them responsibly, including code review, security and data-handling standards.
• Experience building and running secure, multi-tenant systems, with an understanding of data protection (GDPR) and security and compliance frameworks (e.g. SOC 2, ISO 27001).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills: you can set expectations, give constructive feedback and represent your team with Product and stakeholders across the business.

Nice to have

• Experience in FinTech, ideally AML or transaction monitoring.

• Experience building AI-powered product features on AWS (e.g. Amazon Bedrock), such as AI agents or LLM-based document processing, including evaluating and monitoring them in production.

Benefits

Our promise to you

We are striving to become global leaders across all of the categories we operate in and as part of that we are a high-performing highly collaborative team that works cross functionally to accommodate our client’s needs.

• Collaboration: Working together to achieve our best
• Outcomes: Drive Success in every engagement
• Respect: A collective feeling of inclusion and belonging
• Excellence: Continuously raising the bar

What’s in it for you?

• Healthcare cover through the VHI
• Company pension contribution
• Life assurance/ Income protection
• 23 days annual leave
• 3 company closure days
• Annual bonus opportunity
• Work From Home set-up allowance
• Opportunity to work with clients and colleagues on a global scale for a world leader in Client Lifecycle Management
• Other competitive company benefits, such as flexible working hours, work from home policy, bike to work scheme, sports and social committee and much more
• Buddy system for all new starters
• Collaborative working environment
• Extensive training programs, classroom and online, through ‘Fenergo University’
• Opportunity to work on a cutting-edge Fintech Product, using the latest of tools and technologies
• Defined training and role tracking to allow you see and assess your own career development and progress.
• Active sports and social club
• State of the art offices in the heart of Dublin’s Docklands with great facilities, canteen and games area

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusivity

Fenergo is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, where all employees are valued, respected, and can reach their full potential. We do not discriminate based on race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Our hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We believe that a diverse workforce enriches our company culture, fosters innovation, and contributes to our overall success. We strive to provide a fair and supportive environment for all employees, promoting equal opportunities for career development and advancement. We encourage all qualified individuals to apply for employment opportunities and join our team in contributing to a collaborative and inclusive work environment.

Recruitment Safety

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