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🚀 About Webigence and Spark Travel Webigence has 25 years of experience crafting UX‑first, often highly complex software. Our engineers pair forward‑thinking agile practices with an obsession for intuitive design, shipping products that feel effortless even when the logic underneath is anything but. Alongside a handful of long‑standing third‑party clients, we’re scaling our own SaaS product—Spark Travel—at pace. You’ll join a smart, collaborative team that pushes each other to articulate and defend every architectural decision in pursuit of best‑in‑class software. Spark Travel itself is on a mission to drag the tailor‑made travel industry into the 21st century. Our cloud‑native platform unifies sales, supplier contracting, dynamic pricing, and on‑trip operations—everything from the first quote to the traveller’s safe return. The market is huge, the incumbents are slow, and we already have meaningful traction: roughly 35 customers and an accelerating sign‑up pace, a very healthy sales pipeline, and a roadmap brimming with genuinely novel features. With a fantastic existing team across engineering, product, customer success, marketing, and sales, we’re gearing up for hyper‑growth. We’re looking for two down‑to‑earth professional, a conscientious Senior Software Developer, to build on what already works and unlock our next wave of innovation. 🌟 Your Impact • Raise the bar sensibly. Whether you’re refining our Azure architecture as CTO or shipping revenue‑critical features as Senior Dev, you’ll set high standards without reinventing the wheel., • Champion intuitive user experiences. Both roles care deeply about usability, ensuring our platform feels effortless for travel pros and their travellers., • Own the craft. Understand the problem, ship the solution, measure the outcome—and when something’s working, double‑down on it., • Move the needle. Your work will streamline the day‑to‑day of leading tailor‑made tour operators and DMCs—enhancing trip experiences for their travellers as we scale. 🧭 Role Snapshot 2️⃣ Senior Software Developer • Be UK‑based (remote within the UK) with ability to attend occasional team meet‑ups in London (travel expenses covered)., • Design, build, and maintain features across the stack: .NET (C#) based API backends, Angular (TypeScript) based frontends, SQL Server, Cosmos DB., • Own mission‑critical modules such as pricing engines, itinerary or form builders, client proposal app, etc., • Write clean, tested code; automate everything from CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions) to performance benchmarks., • Investigate and diagnose issues and perform root cause analysis., • Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Customer Success., • Propose incremental improvements and occasionally explore new tech (e.g. Azure OpenAI) when it clearly solves a problem. You might be our Senior Dev if… - Hold a 1st-class or 2:1 degree in Computer Science or a closely related discipline. - 4+ years building modern web or data applications with .NET and at least one JavaScript framework. - Hands-on experience with Azure or another major cloud provider, plus an understanding of microservices and event-driven architectures. - You love balancing delivery speed with technical excellence, and you’re keen to keep learning. 🎁 What We Offer • Competitive salary, equity options coming soon, • Remote‑first culture with asynchronous workflows, • Private healthcare, • Employer pension contributions above statutory, • Home‑office setup budget, • Coworking space allowance, • Flexible hours with async core overlap, • Professional‑development budget, • Conference & certification leave, • Choose‑your‑own‑tech toolkit, • Travel‑to‑London expenses for required in‑person meetings, • Collaborative and innovative company culture 📩 How to Apply • Send your CV., • Confirm you are currently living and legally able to work in the UK., • Share one project or decision you’re proud of, why it mattered, and what you learned. Please note: We are only considering UK‑based applicants who fully meet the role criteria. Applications that do not comply will not be considered now or in future hiring rounds. Deadline: 15th March 2026 (rolling review—apply early). Spark Travel is an equal‑opportunity employer and a welcoming neurodiverse team. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. We’re not just saying that, we really mean it!

Aveni is redefining how financial institutions use AI. We build real, production-ready agentic systems that reshape how banks, advisers and financial services firms operate, replacing fragmented processes with intelligent, end-to-end workflows. We have been recognised as Fintech of the Year for two consecutive years and awarded Best Specialist Technology Service at the Professional Adviser Awards 2025. Backed by leading investors including Puma Private Equity, and commercially supported by Lloyds Banking Group and Nationwide Building Society, we previously completed one of Scotland’s largest Series A rounds. Since then, we’ve continued to grow rapidly as adoption of AI in financial services accelerates, and we’re now scaling our engineering organisation to meet that demand. Our engineering team includes experienced software engineers and PhD-level AI specialists, with strong ties to the University of Edinburgh, giving you access to exceptional expertise and opportunities for continuous learning as part of the day-to-day work. The role We're looking for a Lead Software Engineer to be the most senior technical voice in one of our product squads, working as a technical co-leader alongside the Engineering Manager. You'll own the squad's technical direction and engineering quality end to end, from architectural decision making and hands-on delivery, to mentoring engineers and shaping how we build across the organisation. This role demands genuine depth in AI. You'll be leading LLM powered feature development and setting the standard for how AI tooling amplifies the whole engineering process, combined with the full-stack and cloud-native chops to back it up. What you'll be doing • Setting technical direction for your squad. Owning architectural decisions, managing technical risk, and representing the engineering perspective at our Architecture Review Board, • Leading AI-powered product development: designing LLM workflows, RAG pipelines, and agentic features that run on top of our AI platform in production, at scale, • Driving adoption of AI coding tools across the full SDLC, from planning and design through code review, testing, deployment and setting the bar for how the squad works, • Delivering production grade code across the full stack: Node.js or Python backends, event-driven AWS architecture, and React where the squad needs it, • Mentoring and growing engineers across AI and full-stack domains, through code reviews, design documents, and day-to-day pairing, • Collaborating with platform teams to consume shared capabilities and contribute reusable patterns back, not building one-off solutions when a platform component will do, • Ensuring everything we ship is compliant-by-design, auditable, and built to the standards expected of software in FCA regulated financial services What we're looking for • A seasoned engineer with 10+ years of experience, including meaningful time building and operating AI/ML systems in production, • Real technical leadership. You've set direction, made architectural calls, mentored others, and influenced how a team builds, not just what it ships, • Strong hands-on AI/LLM skills: prompt engineering, RAG, model evaluation and agent frameworks. You know how these work in production, not just in demos, • Deep expertise in Node.js or Python, with solid experience in the other; comfortable switching contexts depending on what the problem needs, • Cloud-native development on AWS. Serverless, event-driven, Lambda, with an instinct for well designed, maintainable systems, • A genuine curiosity about where AI is going and the judgment to separate signal from noise when recommending what to adopt, • An instinct for building responsibly. You care about auditability, compliance, and the downstream impact of what you ship Why Aveni • You'll work at the frontier of applied AI in a domain where it actually matters, helping financial services firms serve their clients better and meet growing regulatory obligations, • AI-native engineering culture: we use AI tools seriously, across the full development process, and we're always looking to push further, • High impact from day one. As a Staff Engineer, your technical decisions will shape the product, the platform, and the engineers around you, • A talented, collaborative team building something genuinely novel, with the backing, the architecture, and the proprietary models to do it properly Benefits at Aveni What you’ll love • Remote-first working across the UK., • Work abroad policy for when you want a change of scenery., • Co-working spaces available if you want an office buzz sometimes., • 34 days holiday (including flexible bank holidays) and your birthday off., • Company-wide off-sites (yes, karaoke may happen)., • Optional Personal Development Plan., • Flexible benefits platform: you choose the benefits that matter most to you (not the company)., • Protection essentials, because we know they matter - Life Insurance, Income protection, critical illness cover, Pension (up to 5% matched employer contribution and optional increased contributions)., • Private health- and dental care for your peace of mind., • Potential share options, have a stake in what you’re building., • Enhanced family leave. Join Us in Making a Difference At Aveni, we believe that diversity drives innovation. We've built our business to ensure an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best work. If you're passionate about technology and its ability to drive positive change for the future of financial services, we'd love to hear from you. Even if you don’t meet 100% of requirements, we’d like to hear from you anyway if you believe you’d fit in. Apply now to join us on our mission to transform the financial services industry through AI.

Full-time | Remote with trips to Silicon Valley office | Reports to Founders Introduction: • Join us at Fastino as we build the next generation of LLMs. Our team, boasting alumni from Google Research, Apple, Stanford, and Cambridge is on a mission to develop specialized, efficient AI., • Fastino's GLiNER family of open source models has been downloaded more than 5 million times and is used by companies such as NVIDIA, Meta, and Airbnb, • Fastino has raised $25M (as featured in TechCrunch) through our seed round and is backed by leading investors including Microsoft, Khosla Ventures, Insight Partners, Github CEO Thomas Dohmke, Docker CEO Scott Johnston, and others. What You’ll Work On: • Experiment with novel language model architectures, helping drive and execute Fastino's research roadmap, • Optimize Fastino’s multimodal models to improve response quality, instruction adherence, and overall performance metrics, • Architect data processing pipelines, implementing filtering, balancing, and captioning systems to ensure training data quality across diverse content categories, • Implement reinforcement learning techniques including Direct Preference Optimization and Generalized Reward Preference Optimization to align model outputs with human preferences and quality standards, • Build robust and real-world motivated evaluations, • Partner with Fastino engineering team to ship model updates directly to customers, • Establish best practices for code health and documentation on the team, to facilitate collaboration and reliable development What We’re Looking For: • Required - Great velocity for building and shipping agents / AI products., • Optional - Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or related technical discipline with concentrated study in deep learning and computer vision methodologies, • Optional - Demonstrated ability to do independent research in Academic or Industry settings, • Optional - Substantial industry experience in large-scale deep learning model training, with demonstrated expertise in at least one of Large Language Models, Vision-Language Models, Diffusion Models, or comparable generative AI architectures, • Optional - Comprehensive technical proficiency and practical experience with leading deep learning frameworks, including advanced competency in one of PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, or equivalent platforms for model development and optimization

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