Lead AI Applications Engineer - Enterprise AI for Fintech

Blue Harvest; Brussel Hoofdstad; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning budgets

Mentorship

Conference opportunities

Competitive salary and bonuses

Job summary

Blue Harvest in Belgium seeks a Lead Application Engineer to bridge enterprise engineering and AI for financial clients. You will design and deliver backend or fullstack solutions, mentor engineers, and establish yourself as a local thought leader while expanding market impact.

You’ll lead by example, integrating LLMs and RAG pipelines, orchestrating microservices, APIs, and CI/CD, and collaborating with banks, insurers, and fintechs to translate business goals into roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Extensive backend development experience in Java.
• Deep knowledge of API design and distributed systems.
• Experience integrating AI models and building RAG pipelines.
• Proven leadership and mentoring abilities.
• Fluent English and strong market vision.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement backend or fullstack solutions with AI models.
• Build and orchestrate microservices, APIs, and event-driven systems.
• Lead by example: write clean, testable code and mentor engineers.
• Collaborate with clients to translate business goals into roadmaps.
• Contribute to internal initiatives, knowledge sharing, or open source.
• Grow with us: learning budgets, mentorship, and opportunity to lead.

Skills

Backend Java

Frontend frameworks

API design

Cloud-native patterns

AI integration

Infrastructure as Code

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Leadership

English language

Tools

LangChain

Semantic Kernel

Azure/AWS/GCP

Job description

Blue Harvest in Belgium seeks a Lead Application Engineer to bridge enterprise engineering and AI for financial clients. You will design and deliver backend or fullstack solutions, mentor engineers, and establish yourself as a local thought leader while expanding market impact.

You’ll lead by example, integrating LLMs and RAG pipelines, orchestrating microservices, APIs, and CI/CD, and collaborating with banks, insurers, and fintechs to translate business goals into roadmaps.