Senior AI Engineer - Agentic Systems & FinTech

Sanlam Limited; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanlam Limited in Cape Town seeks a Senior Software Engineer to own end-to-end AI-enabled features inside a dedicated Fintech pod. You will ship agentic workflows, build multi-agent orchestration, and ensure safe, compliant integration within our enterprise cloud.

You will work closely with product and security teams, applying best practices in RBAC, audit logging and performance optimization. AWS-driven, IaC mindset and strong coding discipline are essential.

Qualifications

• Relevant Degree or Diploma (BSc Computer Science, IT or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering, with production systems on AWS or equivalent.
• Hands‑on experience building with LLM APIs (e.g. Anthropic, Bedrock, OpenAI) — tool use / function calling, structured output, prompt and context management.
• Demonstrable daily use of agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot agents or similar) and opinions on where they fail.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of new capabilities across the pod's five focus areas and deliver them from concept to production inside Sanlam's AWS tenant.
• Build and operate agentic workflows: multi-agent orchestration, tool integrations (MCP), context/memory services, and the guardrails (RBAC, audit logging, encryption) that make them safe.
• Integrate agents into real engineering flows — BFF/microservice feature delivery, local runners, acceptance tests, incident triage against Datadog/CloudWatch and dead-letter queues.
• Author reusable AI skills, prompts and team-context packages that other Sanlam engineers can pick up on day one.
• Measure what you ship: evals, latency, token cost-per-feature, and reliability of agent runs; feed results into the Codeship cockpit metrics.
• Focus on operational and code excellence during code reviews and feature development; improve the team's development, testing and operational practices.
• Participate in on-call for the platform and handle incidents effectively — using the very tooling you build.
• Identify and pay down technical debt within your scope; grow your influence beyond individual tasks to the broader team.

Skills

Java (Lambda)

TypeScript

Python

LLM APIs

Agent tooling

AWS

Code reviews

On-call

RBAC

Education

BSc Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Datadog

CloudWatch

MCP

Cognito

S3

DynamoDB

Job description

Sanlam Limited in Cape Town seeks a Senior Software Engineer to own end-to-end AI-enabled features inside a dedicated Fintech pod. You will ship agentic workflows, build multi-agent orchestration, and ensure safe, compliant integration within our enterprise cloud.

You will work closely with product and security teams, applying best practices in RBAC, audit logging and performance optimization. AWS-driven, IaC mindset and strong coding discipline are essential.