Technical Lead f/x/m - spotixx GmbH

spotixx is a Frankfurt-based European FinTech building technology for the regulated financial sector. Since 2019, we have grown into a team of 60+ professionals with deep roots in the German and European banking landscape, shaped by years of hands-on experience in fraud investigation and financial crime prevention.

We specialize in Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and fraud detection, enabling secure, compliant data exchange between financial institutions. Using data science and AI, we are helping shift the industry toward collaborative intelligence and more effective prevention.

As a self-funded company, we focus on sustainable growth and real impact. With offices in Frankfurt and Wilhelmshaven and strong inbound demand, we are expanding our team. If you want to work on meaningful problems, grow with the company, and be part of a flexible, hybrid work environment, spotixx offers the opportunity to do just that.

Tasks

You lead our software delivery through technical excellence: you own the architecture and technical design, set the quality, security, and release frameworks everything ships through, and act as the technical counterpart to senior architects on the customer side. You work AI-native by default, building the agentic workflows that let a small, high-calibre team deliver reliably at scale.

Tasks

• Own architecture and technical design: decide what to build and how in a regulated environment.
• Design for security and scale: secure-by-design, sound identity and access, and reliable performance under load.
• Set and maintain the technical bar: quality assurance, release and change management, IT security.
• Own verification: the testing strategy and CI gates that prove what ships is correct and on-spec.
• Build practical AI leverage: agentic workflows with the evaluation and guardrail mechanisms that make AI output reliable.
• Be the technical face to customers: engage senior client-side architects in workshops and due diligence.
• Support the growth of the engineers around you through mentoring, code review, and technical guidance.
• Coordinate the team: work allocation, delivery rhythm, and day-to-day execution.

What we build:

(1) a privacy-first data-sharing platform that lets banks share financial-crime intelligence without exposing each other's raw data, built on multi-party-computation technology from our partner Roseman Labs; (2) an AI-driven fraud-management pipeline using LLMs for analysis, detection-rule discovery, case preparation, and automation.

Requirements

What we’re looking for

We do not expect you to check every box. We are looking for someone with strong engineering judgment, people skills, and the ability to own technical direction from day one.

Required

• 6+ years building production software, with the depth to contribute hands-on and help guide technical de