Senior AI Engineer (Agents) — Build Production AI Agents

MoMo from MTN; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

MTN Group Fintech is building a world-class AI capability from the ground up, powering the next generation of financial services across markets. This Senior AI Engineer (Agents) role turns prioritized use cases into reliable agents and automations that operate within enterprise systems.

You will write code, test behaviour, integrate tools, and provide production support in a hands-on capacity. The role reports to architects and works in delivery squads.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Data Science or a related technical field.
• Minimum of 5 to 7 years in software engineering with production delivery.
• Hands-on experience with large language models, prompt/context engineering, tool/function calling and retrieval.
• Experience with agent frameworks, workflow orchestration or automation platforms.
• Strong programming ability with Python and at least one other language used in production services.
• Experience integrating with enterprise APIs and transactional systems, including handling failures and rate limits.
• Experience with version control, testing, CI/CD and code review practices.
• Exposure to production support, monitoring and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production agents against approved use cases.
• Tool and system integration with connectors and Model Context Protocol servers.
• Agent testing, evaluation and behavioural quality.
• Operational support of the agents and automations delivered.

Skills

LLM development

Python

Context engineering

API integration

CI/CD

Testing & debugging

Incident response

Version control

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering/IT/Data Science or related

Tools

Agent frameworks

Workflow orchestration

Automation platforms

Job description

MTN Group Fintech is building a world-class AI capability from the ground up, powering the next generation of financial services across markets. This Senior AI Engineer (Agents) role turns prioritized use cases into reliable agents and automations that operate within enterprise systems.

You will write code, test behaviour, integrate tools, and provide production support in a hands-on capacity. The role reports to architects and works in delivery squads.