AI Engineer — Agentic AI for Financial Crime Prevention

Ebury; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech firm in Greater London is seeking an AI Engineer to join their internal AI startup. This unique role involves driving the architecture and deployment of AI agents to enhance security and operational efficiency against financial crime. The ideal candidate will have strong software engineering and Python skills, along with experience in AWS and building complex AI systems. This position offers the opportunity to work on impactful projects in a collaborative environment with great potential for growth.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Performance-based bonus

Comprehensive benefits package

Opportunities for technical leadership

Collaboration with experts in financial compliance

Qualifications

• Strong background in software engineering and Python. Clean, production-grade code.
• Proven experience building agents with Tool Calling and RAG methods.
• Familiarity with AWS, can deploy secure serverless architectures.
• Experience transitioning AI/ML projects to high-availability environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and orchestrate LLM-based agentic workflows.
• Build secure pipelines for agents to autonomously query APIs.
• Implement guardrails to ensure decisions are logged and auditable.
• Own the full technical roadmap from prototype to production.

Skills

Software engineering

Python programming

Building AI agents

AWS ecosystem

Infrastructure-as-Code

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Google ADK

Job description

A leading fintech firm in Greater London is seeking an AI Engineer to join their internal AI startup. This unique role involves driving the architecture and deployment of AI agents to enhance security and operational efficiency against financial crime. The ideal candidate will have strong software engineering and Python skills, along with experience in AWS and building complex AI systems. This position offers the opportunity to work on impactful projects in a collaborative environment with great potential for growth.