Senior AI Engineer - Build Production-Grade LLM Apps

FinTop Consulting; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

FinTop Consulting is building an AI Transformation function in the financial services sector. We seek a Senior AI Engineer to own end-to-end delivery, from architecture to deployment, across multiple live products and business systems.

You will ship production-grade LLM applications, work with OpenAI/Anthropic APIs, and collaborate with Head of AI Transformation to deliver scalable AI capabilities with governance and safety controls.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years building LLM-based applications.
• Proven track record taking AI solutions from prototype to production.
• 2–3 real-world AI implementations with measurable outcomes.
• Strong full-stack engineering with backend/API and usable frontend interfaces.
• DevOps experience: CI/CD, containers and cloud deployment across AWS/GCP/Azure.

Responsibilities

• Take AI use cases from proof of concept through production and own the technical lifecycle.
• Build AI solutions across customer support, sales, compliance, marketing and operations.
• Design and develop modern LLM apps with RAG, agentic workflows and multi-agent orchestration.
• Work with major model providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) and integrate APIs.
• Deploy, monitor and operate AI apps across cloud environments and integrate with business systems.
• Create logging, evaluation frameworks and governance for AI safety and reliability.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to embed AI into workflows and systems.

Skills

LLM-based app development

Full-stack engineering

DevOps CI/CD

Cloud deployment

APIs & backend services

RAG and agentic workflows

Multi-agent orchestration

Tool/function calling

LLM evaluation & monitoring

English communication

Tools

OpenAI API

Anthropic API

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

FinTop Consulting is building an AI Transformation function in the financial services sector. We seek a Senior AI Engineer to own end-to-end delivery, from architecture to deployment, across multiple live products and business systems.

You will ship production-grade LLM applications, work with OpenAI/Anthropic APIs, and collaborate with Head of AI Transformation to deliver scalable AI capabilities with governance and safety controls.