--- title: 'Senior Backend Engineer (Python) at Nevis Wealth' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-backend-engineer-python-nevis-wealth-london-q4z1hwkhchy3' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-05' --- # Senior Backend Engineer (Python) at Nevis Wealth - **Company:** Nevis Wealth - **Location:** London, United Kingdom - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2025-11-28 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nevis/a53507fa-48bc-41bc-b3ea-961f1bd03cf3 ## Job description ## ABOUT NEVIS Nevis is building the world’s first AI wealth management platform. We are building the system financial advisors will run on for the next decade. Our AI completes work, automates workflows end to end, and frees advisors to spend more time with clients. In the future, every wealth management firm will run on Nevis. Nevis was founded by an exceptional team of ex-Revolut executives and has raised a total of $40 million from world leading investors including Sequoia Capital, ICONIQ and Ribbit. ## THE ROLE We are looking for an exceptional Software Engineer (Python) to help build the AI platform that powers intelligent workflows for the world’s top financial firms. In this role, you will design and implement the Python systems, services, and orchestration layers that accelerate AI development across Nevis. You’ll work across applied AI, data pipelines, model execution frameworks, agentic systems, retrieval infrastructure, and backend components that support our AI products. You’ll thrive here if you love building production-grade AI platforms, care about performance and reliability, and want to work on systems that move from idea to production in days. You’ll be joining a world-class engineering team with deep experience building AI systems at scale. ## WHAT YOU’LL DO - Build and evolve Nevis’ Python-based AI platform, powering core workflows and agentic automation. - Develop model orchestration, data processing pipelines, retrieval systems, and execution runtimes for applied AI features. - Create scalable APIs, services, and internal tools enabling rapid development, evaluation, and deployment of AI systems. - Architect robust systems for model inference, prompt execution, vector retrieval, and multi-step agent reasoning. - Maintain high engineering standards through clean code, testing, observability, and CI/CD. - Collaborate closely with AI engineers, product managers, and designers to ship features used by thousands of clients. - Own greenfield AI platform components from architecture through production rollout. - Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and technical debates that shape the future of Nevis’ technical direction. ## WHO YOU ARE - 4+ years of experience in Python engineering, ideally building AI platforms, ML infrastructure, or applied AI products. - Deep expertise in Python, asynchronous programming, system design, and backend engineering fundamentals. - Hands-on experience building production systems involving: - LLM orchestration or agent frameworks (Pydantic, LangChain, custom orchestration). - Data pipelines, ETL, embeddings, or vector search - Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) or model-backed workflows - High-performance APIs and distributed services - Strong understanding of modern cloud environments (AWS preferred). - Solid foundation in computer science, distributed systems, or related fields. - Fast learner with a bias for action and a strong ownership mindset. - Excellent communication and collaboration skills. - Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. ## NICE TO HAVE - Experience shipping applied AI or ML-powered products in production. - Knowledge of vector databases, feature stores, or streaming systems. - Background in fintech, financial services, wealth management, or startups. WHY JOIN NEVIS? - Work alongside a world-class founding team backed by Sequoia, ICONIQ, and Ribbit. - Build core systems at a hyper-growth AI startup redefining wealth management. - Fast-paced environment with huge scope for ownership, impact, and career growth. - Mission-driven culture with global industry-changing potential. - 25 days’ annual leave. - Private medical insurance. - Competitive salary and benefits, including company equity. ## About Nevis Wealth ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Nevis is the first unified AI platform purpose-built for wealth management, automating end-to-end administrative workflows so financial advisors can focus on client service and growth. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States - **Founded**: 2024 - **Founders**: Mark Swan (CEO & Co-Founder), Philipp Burda (CPO & Co-Founder), Ivan Chalov (COO & Co-Founder) ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: AI-powered wealth management software / Fintech - **Target Customers**: Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs), multi-family offices, and wealth management firms of all sizes (from independent advisors to national enterprises managing $50B+ in assets). - **Mission/Purpose**: To free financial advisors from administrative work so they can focus entirely on growth and delivering world-class client service, ultimately expanding access to high-quality financial advice. ## Products & Services - **[Nevis Platform]**: A unified AI platform that automates the entire advisor workflow. Key features include: - **AI Search**: Intelligent, unified search across all client systems to find relevant information in seconds. - **Smart Meeting Prep**: Generates intelligent client briefs before every meeting. - **Meeting Summary**: Captures AI meeting summaries with deep contextual awareness. - **Automated Task Generation**: Turns every client touchpoint into actionable tasks. - **Client-Ready Emails**: Sends personalized client emails automatically in the advisor's tone of voice. - **Account Opening**: Automates data collection and submissions for opening new custodian accounts. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Key Metric**: **$40M in total funding** raised in under a year. This includes a $5M Seed round (Dec 2024) and a $35M Series A (Dec 2025). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital (led both rounds), ICONIQ Growth, Ribbit Capital. - **Growth Signals**: - Hyper-growth: Headcount grew 33 employees with a **12.2% monthly growth rate**, with 17 active job postings. - Already supports RIAs managing **over $50 billion in assets**. - Expanding globally with operations in the US, UK, Spain, Portugal, UAE, and France. - Named the "fastest growing wealth management tech startup." ## Competitive Advantages - **First-Mover & Unified Platform**: The first AI platform to unify the entire advisor workflow, moving beyond point solutions that bolt AI onto legacy systems. - **Enterprise-Grade Security**: SOC 2 Type I certified, with agreements with OpenAI and Anthropic for enhanced data privacy. The company guarantees it never uses client data to train AI models. - **Founding Team from Revolut**: The three co-founders are ex-Revolut leaders who helped build one of the world’s top digital banks, bringing deep experience in scaling complex, regulated financial products. - **Top-Tier Investors**: Backed by Sequoia Capital, ICONIQ, and Ribbit Capital, providing significant capital, credibility, and strategic network effects in the fintech space. ## Strategic Focus - **Product Velocity**: Rapidly expanding the platform’s capabilities to cover more of the advisor workflow. - **Customer Acquisition**: Onboarding new wealth management firms at a rapid pace, with a focus on both large national RIAs and smaller, high-growth firms. - **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring to scale the engineering, product, and go-to-market teams to meet market demand. - **Global Expansion**: Expanding its footprint beyond the US into European markets (UK, Spain, Portugal) and the Middle East (UAE). ## Why Work Here - **Hyper-Growth Career Trajectory**: The company promises career growth "5x faster than at a traditional company" and promotes based on impact, not tenure. - **World-Class Team**: Join a team of builders, designers, and engineers from top companies like Revolut, Sequoia, and ICONIQ. - **Top of Market Compensation**: Offers competitive pay and meaningful equity ("When we win, you win"). - **High-Performance Environment**: A culture of velocity, ownership, and relentless execution. - **Perks**: - Daily food delivery credits (7 days/week). - Late-night ride support for shipping important work. - Best-in-class equipment (choose your own laptop, monitor, setup). - Modern, centrally-located office HQ built for deep work and collaboration. - **Work Model**: The company is **office-first** with a "world class office space" in New York, emphasizing in-person collaboration for high-performance teams. ## Sources 1. 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