Senior AI Engineer – Hybrid (Cape Town)

About the role

A leading South African fintech organisation is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to design and deliver production‑grade AI agent solutions. The role is contract‑based, hybrid, and focuses on building sophisticated LLM‑driven workflows that enhance digital payment platforms.

Key responsibilities

• Design and build complex AI agent workflows using LLMs, Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG), embeddings, prompt engineering and tool calling.
• Integrate AI agents with REST APIs, data sources and existing fintech platforms.
• Lead technical architecture, solution design and end‑to‑end development.
• Own testing, production deployment, monitoring and optimisation of AI agents.
• Contribute to engineering standards, technical decisions and best practices.

Required profile

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, AI/ML engineering or a related field.
• Strong Python development skills and proven experience delivering agentic AI solutions.
• Hands‑on experience with LLMs and frameworks such as LangGraph or CrewAI.
• Experience with AWS, Docker, CI/CD pipelines and production‑grade AI testing and monitoring.

Required skills

• Python
• LLMs, LangGraph, CrewAI
• RAG, embeddings, prompt engineering, tool calling
• Agent orchestration, REST APIs, system integration
• AWS, Docker, CI/CD
• AI testing, monitoring, production deployment
• MCP, C#.NET, SQL