A pioneer and market leader in Open Banking, Powens is committed to supporting financial players in designing services and payment experiences that users love.

Headquartered in Paris and Barcelona, Powens Group is at the forefront of the Open Finance movements in Europe and Latin America. Our mission is to offer banking technology as a service to any company aiming to enhance user experience and operational efficiency. We achieve this through our API-based regulated solutions covering multiple products in Open Banking / Finance, and more.

A French regulated company, Powens is a rapidly growing fintech company, holding passports to operate in all European countries.

We are a trusted partner to the top financial industry players and software editors in Europe, and we have achieved this by scouting the best talents. Joining Powens means being a part of an inclusive, multicultural, and international group of over 130 employees.

Job Description

As a Lead AI Developer, you will join our Cross-Connectors squad whose mission is to ensure the proper functioning and optimization of our API. You will lead the effort of accelerating the building of connectors to financial institutions, that is custom code that securely aggregates financial data and delivers it to our clients via our APIs.

What will be your responsibilities?

- Design, build, and maintain systems to accelerate the building of connectors to financial institutions, ensuring secure, scalable, and reliable data aggregation.

- Integrate agentic AI / LLM-based workflows into our connector delivery pipelines.

- Collaborate with the product team to align connector development with client needs and business goals.

- Partner with the DevOps and architecture team to ensure high availability, performance, and security of connectors.

- Take full ownership of assigned projects, from active participation in the AI strategy, to concept, to production, while sharing knowledge and best practices with the team.

- Stay pragmatic: Focus on leveraging existing AI/LLM tools and frameworks to solve real-world problems, avoiding unnecessary reinvention.

Which knowledge and skills do we seek?

- Proven experience in building and deploying agentic AI / LLM workflows and applications in production environments.

- Strong background in software engineering.

- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS (e.g., Lambda, S3, IAM, EC2).

- Ability to execute on ideas with minimal supervision, balancing technical rigor with practical outcomes.

- Excellent communication skills to collaborate effectively across teams (product, DevOps, support).

- A pragmatic mindset: You prioritize impact over trends, using existing tools to solve real problems.

- Demonstrated ability to take ownership of technical subjects and drive them to completion.

We’re not looking for researchers or theoretical thinkers, we need a builder who can translate business requirements into robust, production-grade solutions.

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Join a team where your work directly shapes the future of financial services. If you’re ready to build cutting-edge connectors and leverage AI to revolutionize how financial data is accessed and used, we want to hear from you.

At Powens, we believe in inclusion, innovation, and impact. Together, we’re redefining banking for the digital age.