novacore capital
nico dell - founder and cio - was at citadel 11 yrs as a pm in international equities -running und lons short equity book covering industrials and left to do the same strategy

team is 7 ppl
3 on inv team
4 non inv side
will grow to 10 ppl end of year
looking to launch early 2026

moving i nto office space next week

looking for an engineer or cto (title is not as important) someone to build out and own our tech infra. more on the eng side of building out internal tech vs managing IT / software kind of thing.

spoken to a few ppl in our network but didnt pan out.

We are working with 1 recruiter currently. things have been slower than what he would have hoped w them.

i was recommended to nico.

interviewed a few ppl first rd none of them slam dunks.

need someone:
worst case 6 months
someone well rounded in terms of eng - day 1 is data eng with external data vendors, web scrapes being run, internal generated data. we need robust pipelines for this and can then startt building internal api for this data. also tools we want to develop internally that would require some amount of front end development exp. also risk side - want to do alot of custom stuff in terms of risk models, facrtors and analytics.

anything that comes up they need to be able to handle.

where ppl falling short? very senior ppl who arent hands on enough
5 yrs of exp would be better for us than someone spent the last 5 yrs hardly writing any code
they wont have a team day 1. year 2 and beyond they could prob grow underneath them.

also seen ppl only worked in small start up funds, but htinks there are certain eng best practices that u have exp from a larger firm, and being trained up. or he sees data eng exp but havent done anything outside of that. - this is noit justb uuilding pieplines and manahing databases.

Tech stack? likely to work with python. we are agnostic with any front end technologies.
data side - we are agnostic to whjat databases there are. we will prob use AWS for cloud services. experience with airflow would be helpful for job scheduling. but if very storng and worked w gcp and azure they can pick it up.

office is located in victoria - central london. Cube is is righ there
onsite 5 days per week.

need to interact w inv team cuz alot of the request s from data side comes from analysts - need data from vendor, scrape rthis data etc... this is the dfatset i want figure out what need to be done etc..

tc? base would be up to 150/175k gbp. tc up to 500k gbp (we spoke w someone prev that had tc of 700k gbp).

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