Chief Scientist / Co-founder - Vestun｜Meet.jobs

Join Vestun

Vestun is a Fintech company employing quantitative and AI technologies to exploit financial market behavior and inefficiencies. As a regulated asset-manager, the company combines financial data with alternative data sets to develop self-learning and adaptative systematic investment strategies.

To strengthen its management team here in Zurich, the company is looking for a second technical cofounder who as part of the leadership team will focus on further development and realization of the company's technology and product strategy. We offer you the opportunity to join Vestun in an accelerated seed phase with potential for founder level equity. This is your opportunity to rapidly grow, professionally and personally.

Role description

• Set up and maintenance of production pipelines for machine learning/deep learning applications, overarching development management of all product teams and purely technical topics such as data management, DevOps and infrastructure as well as hands-on development of the company’s financial software together with the technology team.

• Hiring of technology teams including software development (front- and backend) and data modeling teams.

• Application of agile working methods and assurance of product quality and definition of technical standards.

Qualification

• University degree in computer science or corresponding qualifications based on many years of professional experience in product development

• Several years of experience in developing complex technology products and services, ideally with focus on analytics and data analysis.

• Expertise in Python and ideally familiarity with C (A strong understanding of data engineering/science languages and practices (e.g. keras, tensorflow, scikit-learn, numpy, pandas).

• Experience in planning, building and controlling international product teams in a dynamic working environment

• Pioneer for digital trends such as artificial intelligence and enthusiasm for financial topics

• Knowledge of and experience with agile development methods and tools such as Scrum, Jira or Jenkins

• Analytical and systematic mindset

• Ideally, an affinity to Fintech

Benefits

• FinTech Start-Up, financed by industry leading investors and partners

• Autonomous hiring of a long-term team that allows for early-on shaping of the company’s culture

• Diverse activities and autonomous implementation of own ideas in a dynamic environment

• Sparring and support from top-class industry and technology experts from the investor and partner network

• A collaborative and creative work environment, with the possibility to adopt responsibility quickly

• Founder-level equity in a rapidly growing company

Learn more about Vestun here: https://www.vestun.com