Head Of Engineering

Head Of Engineering

London – Kings Cross

£190,000 - £220,000

We are hiring a Head of Engineering to lead Descrial into its V2 launch in early 2027. Investment firms can buy AI models off the shelf. Descrial exists because trusting one with confidential data and a live deal is harder than it looks.

You will own the architecture and have the authority to change it, lead our engineering organisation in Bengaluru and shape a new 17-person UK engineering team.

Tres Vista has run the analytical work behind private capital since 2006. 2,000 people, 400+ clients including some of the biggest names in the industry, no outside capital and no outside board. That was the first chapter. And we enjoyed getting here!

We are moving from services to software, from one firm's workflows to an industry's, and from executing investment decisions to shaping how they get made. Thirty of us in King's Cross, small and senior, with day one founder intensity.

At its fullest expression, Descrial changes how every serious investment firm decides.

As Descrial's senior technical voice, you report to the Executive Committee, which includes Tres Vista co-founder Sudeep Mishra in London, and work alongside the Heads of Product Management and Product Design. You lead hands-on and make the hard technical calls.

You own the platform end to end, from the integrations with clients' CRM, portfolio monitoring, ERP and fund administration systems to the data beneath them, and set a technology roadmap you can defend. You draw service boundaries around data ownership and keep the transactional core separate from the AI engine. Schema-first API and event contracts, versioned artefacts and contract tests make those boundaries explicit, so breaking changes surface before release.

You build where it sets Descrial apart and buy the rest.

You set one standard for London and Bengaluru: CI, automated testing, code review, trunk-based development and deploy-on-merge. You make the platform operable through tracing, alerting, incident response and runbooks, and keep risks visible to the Executive Committee.

For a platform holding confidential investment data, you own identity, token architecture, permissions, tenant isolation and an audit trail of agent actions. Tres Vista holds SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001:2022 certification. With Tres Vista's compliance team, you lead Descrial's readiness for both and prepare for ISO 42001 and the EU AI Act. In client security reviews, you show buyers the isolation holds and name the gaps that remain.

You own retrieval, agentic workflows and permission-aware context. You gate changes to prompts, retrieval and agent behaviour on golden datasets and automated evaluations before release. You make latency, agent-state durability and token cost visible by tenant and feature, so you can say what a change improves, what it costs and how you would spot a regression.

In Bengaluru you lead principal and lead engineers, a solution architect and a QA function. In London you build the team across machine learning, front and back end, cloud and solution architecture and cybersecurity. You hold both locations to one bar and partner with Product Management on feasibility, sequencing and cost.

You decide the sequence and the trade-offs. In your first year, V2 ships on these foundations against explicit release criteria.

• You have led engineering teams for 5+ years, hired strong engineers and run delivery across more than one location.
• You have owned the architecture of a multi-tenant…