AI-First Principal Engineer — Own Platform & Equity

DTU — Technical University of Denmark; Aarhus kommune; On-site; DKK 1,500,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

No people administration

Direct access to founders

Job summary

Aleta seeks a Principal Engineer to lead the platform's technical direction for a wealth intelligence product used by family offices. You will own architecture, data models, and the high-assurance Rust engine, guiding a small, empowered team.

AI-first approaches and strict correctness govern every decision. You will work directly with the two founders, setting standards and ensuring fast, precise delivery without bureaucratic layers, while avoiding over-engineering.

Qualifications

• AI-first engineering approach and strong opinions on where AI fails.
• Ability to debug from symptoms to root cause using logs, traces, metrics.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture, data model, and technical direction.
• Own the calculation engine (Rust) where accuracy matters most.
• Drive monitoring, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis across the stack.

Skills

AI strategy

System architecture

Root-cause analysis

Decision making

Tools

Rust

TypeScript

Next.js

PostgreSQL

Job description

Aleta seeks a Principal Engineer to lead the platform's technical direction for a wealth intelligence product used by family offices. You will own architecture, data models, and the high-assurance Rust engine, guiding a small, empowered team.

AI-first approaches and strict correctness govern every decision. You will work directly with the two founders, setting standards and ensuring fast, precise delivery without bureaucratic layers, while avoiding over-engineering.