Payments AI Engineer - Multi-Agent & RAG Expert

RedCompass Labs; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Life Insurance

Group Income Protection

Pension

Dental Insurance

28 days annual holiday

Job summary

RedCompass Labs in Manchester is seeking an experienced AI Engineer to turn research into production-grade, client-facing AI solutions. You will design, build, and scale multi-agent workflows and secure backend services deployed in Azure.

You will work with product managers and domain experts to translate complex requirements into impactful features, applying MLOps practices, containerization, and modern AI tooling to advance payments modernization.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, with proven expertise developing and deploying production‑grade systems.
• Experience in modern AI, agentic software development, and use of LLMs.
• Strong proficiency in Python/Typescript.
• Understanding in embedding models, retrieval‑based AI architectures (RAG), and vector databases.
• Familiarity with cloud‑native software development, containerization and orchestration technologies.
• Commitment to learning and leveraging new technologies and AI tools rapidly and effectively.
• A ‘t‑shaped’ engineering mindset, and a willingness to stretch into tasks such as automation testing, devops, data engineering when the work needs it.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale sophisticated multi‑agent workflows that automate complex financial analysis.
• Engineer robust Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines leveraging financial rulebooks, regulatory documentation, and client knowledge bases.
• Develop secure, scalable backend services and APIs (primarily Python/FastAPI) deployed in Azure cloud environments.
• Implement and enhance MLOps and DevOps practices, using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps pipelines, Docker containers, and Kubernetes orchestration.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, domain experts, and UX designers, converting complex business requirements into clear, impactful features.

Skills

4+ years exp

AI / LLMs

Python/TypeScript

RAG / embeddings

Cloud-native / containers

Learning mindset

T-shaped engineer

Tools

FastAPI

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Job description

RedCompass Labs in Manchester is seeking an experienced AI Engineer to turn research into production-grade, client-facing AI solutions. You will design, build, and scale multi-agent workflows and secure backend services deployed in Azure.

You will work with product managers and domain experts to translate complex requirements into impactful features, applying MLOps practices, containerization, and modern AI tooling to advance payments modernization.