Snr Developer / Data Engineer / CTO

Company Overview

novacorecapital, founded by Nico Dell (former PM at Citadel, 11 years, international equities, run short equity book covering industrials). The team currently consists of 7 people (3 on the investment side, 4 on the non investment side) and is expected to grow to 10 by year end. The office will open in Victoria, central London, with on site work 5 days a week.

Position Overview

Looking for an engineer or CTO to build and own our technology infrastructure. The role focuses on engineering the internal tech stack-building pipelines, APIs, and tools-rather than managing IT or general software services.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement data engineering pipelines for external vendor data, web scrapes, and internally generated data.
• Create robust data pipelines and internal APIs to support data needs.
• Develop front end tools as required for internal use.
• Build and maintain custom risk models, factors, and analytics.
• Address any emerging technical requirements and collaborate with the investment team and analysts.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of hands on software engineering experience.
• Strong background in data engineering, pipeline development, and working with external data vendors.
• Proficiency in Python; experience with AWS cloud services and Airflow is highly desirable. Knowledge of GCP or Azure is a plus.
• Front end development experience (any technology) is acceptable.
• Experience in larger firm best practices, comfortable working solo initially, with the potential to grow a team later.
• Capable of handling a wide range of technical problems as they arise.
• On site requirement: Victoria, central London, 5 days per week.
• Compensation: base up to £150 175k GBP, with total compensation potential up to £500k GBP.

Additional Details

We anticipate recruiting early 2026, with a potential hire within six months, and an opportunity to grow the technology team over time.