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About the Role

Unique AI is building a secure generative AI platform for the financial sector, aiming to revolutionize the industry with an AI Automated workforce. This role involves owning the technical direction of the platform's knowledge ingestion capabilities, which are foundational for AI assistants to process customer data.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the RAG platform’s architecture and standards.
• Make trade-offed design decisions.
• Drive high-impact backend improvements across the pipeline.
• Communicate a clear technical roadmap.
• Build and evolve ingestion, processing, and retrieval services/APIs.
• Strengthen async pipelines (RabbitMQ, retries, backpressure).
• Enhance parsers.
• Optimize indexing on Qdrant/Elasticsearch for quality and latency.
• Partner with AI engineers to advance chunking, embeddings, metadata, and RAG patterns.
• Integrate Python services for agentic workflows.
• Improve retrieval via better indexing/enrichment/evaluation.
• Adopt OCR/layout/table extraction when it moves the needle.
• Mentor and unblock engineers through reviews and pairing.
• Elevate reliability/performance/observability/testing.
• Support hiring and onboarding without primary people-management duties.
• Run production delivery via Helm/Kubernetes and ArgoCD GitOps.
• Enhance observability with OpenTelemetry/Prometheus/logging/alerts.
• Enforce multi-tenant data isolation, security, and auditability end to end.

Requirements

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience with strong expertise in TypeScript and Node.js
• Experience as a technical lead for a backend or platform domain, with ownership of architecture, technical direction, and mentoring
• Strong experience building ingestion or unstructured data pipelines, ideally involving document parsing across formats such as PDF, Office documents, HTML, or email
• Strong database, indexing, and retrieval experience across PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Qdrant, or similar systems
• Experience improving retrieval quality in production using embeddings, vector search, or RAG-style retrieval systems
• System design maturity: ability to design for scale, failure handling, service boundaries, and pragmatic trade-offs under real constraints
• Multi-tenant SaaS experience: understanding of data isolation, tenant-scoped processing, and enterprise security requirements

Skills

• TypeScript
• Node.js
• Backend Engineering
• Technical Leadership
• Architecture
• Mentoring
• Ingestion Pipelines
• Unstructured Data Pipelines
• Document Parsing (PDF, Office documents, HTML, email)
• Databases
• Indexing
• Retrieval Systems
• PostgreSQL
• Elasticsearch
• Qdrant
• Embeddings
• Vector Search
• RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
• System Design
• SaaS
• RabbitMQ
• Helm
• Kubernetes
• ArgoCD
• GitOps
• OpenTelemetry
• Prometheus
• Logging
• Alerting
• OCR
• Layout Extraction
• Table Extraction
• Python
• Async Pipelines

Location

• Berlin

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Remote

Experience Level

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience
• Experience as a technical lead

Benefits

• Ownership & Autonomy
• Continuous Learning
• Modern company with flat hierarchies
• People-oriented culture
• Transparency and open communication
• Flexibility for remote days

About the Company

• Unique AI is building a highly secure generative AI platform, tailored for the financial sector.
• Utilizing AI, LLM, agentic and Skills technologies, we aim to revolutionize the Financial industry with an AI Automated workforce.
• Our mission is to increase efficiency, improve alpha, reduce risk, and increase quality across everything we do.
• We offer an inclusive environment at Unique and we encourage all genders and all neuro-diversities to apply.
• We're building an enterprise AI platform where knowledge ingestion is a foundational capability.
• It is how customer documents, files, and unstructured data enter the system so that AI assistants can search, retrieve, and reason over it.
• A chance to be part of a leading company in a rapidly evolving industry.
• Engage in groundbreaking projects within the Generative AI space.
• Contribute towards building the foundations enabling financial institutions to operationalize AI.

Equal Opportunity

• We offer an inclusive environment at Unique and we encourage all genders and all neuro-diversities to apply.