AI Software Engineer

Rapyd; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company in Dubai seeks a backend developer to design and scale innovative backend services and APIs for AI-driven features. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in software development, strong backend focus, and expertise in advanced AI workflows. You'll collaborate across teams to implement smart systems. This role offers exciting opportunities to contribute to cutting-edge fintech solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience with a strong backend focus.
• Experience integrating generative models with external knowledge.
• Practical knowledge of embeddings and vector databases.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale backend services and RESTful APIs.
• Develop and iterate on LLM-based applications.
• Define KPIs and run experiments based on metrics.

Skills

Backend software development

LLM workflows

Data pipelines

API development

Strong communication skills

Tools

FAISS

Pinecone

Job description

Overview

Rapyd has unified payments, payouts and fintech on one worldwide platform, and we’re assembling the world’s best team to liberate global commerce. With offices in Tel Aviv, Amsterdam, Singapore, Iceland, London, Dubai, Hong Kong, and the U.S., the opportunities at Rapyd are limitless.

We believe in straight talk, quick decisions, strong execution and elegant solutions. Rapyd is where hard work pays off and careers take off. Join us and let’s build the future of fintech together.

We’re looking for a builder with a backend backbone—someone who can spot an opportunity, sketch a solution, and ship a working service fast. You’ll turn AI ideas into production-grade APIs and microservices, then iterate based on real data and feedback.

You’ll work at the edge of what’s possible with LLMs, RAG pipelines, and vector-based retrieval. The mission: wire up smart systems that automate workflows, elevate productivity, and make AI feel less like magic and more like reliable infrastructure.

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Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale backend services and RESTful APIs to power AI-driven features.
• Develop and iterate on LLM-based applications, including context-aware pipelines (e.g. with vector-store retrieval).
• Own the full lifecycle: prototyping, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous iteration.
• Define KPIs, run experiments, and optimize systems based on metrics and data.
• Collaborate across product, data, and engineering to translate ideas into robust, shippable systems.
• Stay current with the evolving LLM/agent ecosystem and rapidly apply new tools or protocols (e.g., MCP).

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software development experience with a strong backend focus.
• Experience with advanced LLM workflows: prompt engineering, inference optimization, fine-tuning, and evaluation.
• Demonstrated experience integrating generative models with external knowledge (via RAG or similar patterns).
• Practical knowledge of embeddings and vector databases (e.g. FAISS, Pinecone).
• Experience building and scaling data pipelines for LLM ingestion and retrieval.
• Strong communication skills, bias for action, and ability to thrive in fast-paced environments.

Bonus / preferred qualifications

• Previous work with agent frameworks or context protocols.
• Experience with Agile practices and a habit of staying on top of AI research and tooling.
• Hands-on experience designing and building microservices architectures.

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