Founding Engineer / Lead Architect

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THRIVO WEALTH PARTNERS AG Founding Engineer / Lead Architect ThrivoOS · Full-Time · Remote Europe · CET core hours 5–8+ years · Architecture ownership · Equity About Thrivo The independent wealth management industry is at an inflection point. AI, regulatory pressure, and a looming succession wave will determine which firms thrive — and which flounder — in the coming decade. Thrivo Wealth Partners AG is a Swiss holding company based in Zug. Our model: partnering with founder-led independent wealth managers across the DACH region, helping them scale — organically and non-organically — and providing shared technology infrastructure. We are the long-term partner for future-ready wealth managers. The Team Christopher Kraft has accompanied numerous IWM transitions as an investment banker at Perella Weinberg Partners and in leading European wealth platforms. Felix Lobkowicz is a repeat founder — five companies, one IPO — and leads product and technology at Thrivo. Finn Weise leads capital and governance with over a decade of experience building fintechs and financial platforms, previously at Morgan Stanley and European VC funds. On the board: Sebastian Henrichs, former CEO of FNZ Bank Germany — the leading wealth platform in the industry. Behind Thrivo Thrivo is backed by a circle of investors from the finance and fintech world — experienced operators, entrepreneurs, and family offices who understand this market and think long-term. A platform that promises long-term thinking to founders cannot itself be optimising for short-term returns. The wealth management market in Germany and Switzerland is digitising — more slowly than other sectors, but with real momentum now. Thrivo is building the technology infrastructure that underpins this transformation: a platform for founder-led wealth managers that deploys compliance automation, AI-assisted processes, and modern data architecture in a way that until now has only been available to large institutions. ThrivoOS is not another fintech dashboard. It is the operating system for a growing group of partner firms collectively managing several billion AUM. You build this — as the first technical full-time hire and the engineering lead. The Role You own the technical leadership of ThrivoOS. You set the architecture, coordinate the freelance senior engineer, and are the engineering constant in a project that bridges complex r…