Senior AI Engineer — Marketing Tech Platform Lead

Jobgether; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

AI-native platform

Large-scale ops

Modern AI tools

Cross-functional team

Data governance

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Senior AI Engineer, Marketing based in South Africa to lead the design, build, and operation of a next-generation marketing technology stack during a major migration. You will implement AI-powered lead qualification, scoring, and routing, and establish centralized governance while integrating CRM, ESPs, and enrichment tools.

You will collaborate with Marketing Operations and engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and explainable AI-native capabilities, including

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• At least 6 years of experience building and operating production backend systems, including 3+ years of Python.
• Recent hands-on experience using AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot agent mode, or Codex.
• Production experience supporting marketing automation platform integrations, preferably HubSpot, with Marketo or Pardot also considered.
• Strong understanding of marketing automation APIs, data models, and synchronization with CRM systems.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and durable execution patterns, including message queues, idempotency keys, and replay mechanisms. Temporal or comparable workflow engine desirable.
• Practical integration engineering experience with REST APIs, webhooks, OAuth 2.0, rate limits, retries, and vendor-specific services.
• Advanced PostgreSQL skills, including schema design, JSONB, partitioning, Alembic migrations, and query performance optimization.
• Experience deploying cloud-based applications on Azure or AWS, including containers, IaC via Terraform/Bicep, GitHub Actions CI/CD, secrets management, and observability.
• Experience delivering LLM-powered product features, including structured outputs, evaluation processes, confidence thresholds, fallback mechanisms, and safeguards.
• Excellent written and spoken English, with the ability to explain technical decisions clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop a unified lead intake platform capturing leads from multiple sources with validation, deduplication, consent management, and enrichment.
• Build AI-powered lead qualification and scoring using signals like product usage, website behavior, and intent data.
• Create intelligent lead routing systems based on territory, capacity, availability, and priority with transparent decision records.
• Improve lead hand-offs, track progress from capture to first sales interaction, and ensure timely follow-ups.
• Develop a self-service campaign management layer for routing, prioritization, and nurturing rules.
• Design AI-native capabilities accessible via an MCP server for internal agents to retrieve lead data and trigger actions.
• Establish centralized consent and suppression controls for data governance and compliance.
• Integrate with CRM, ESPs, visitor identification, enrichment tools, and internal data platforms with reliable sync and recovery.
• Maintain code quality, security, testing, and documentation with an agentic software development platform.
• Maintain and extend marketing automation integrations including CRM sync, sales tools, portals, and APIs.
• Investigate, root-cause, fix integration incidents, and document changes.
• Manage configuration changes in the marketing automation platform during migration to minimize complexity.
• Develop an interim forms gateway and enrollment connector for legacy transition.
• Reconcile data across systems during migration to ensure consistency before cutover milestones.

Skills

Python development

Backend engineering

AI product development

Marketing tech integrations

REST APIs

PostgreSQL

Azure or AWS

Terraform / IaC

GitHub Actions

Temporal workflows

Data governance

English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

HubSpot

Marketo

Pardot

GitHub Copilot

Claude Code

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Senior AI Engineer, Marketing based in South Africa to lead the design, build, and operation of a next-generation marketing technology stack during a major migration. You will implement AI-powered lead qualification, scoring, and routing, and establish centralized governance while integrating CRM, ESPs, and enrichment tools.

You will collaborate with Marketing Operations and engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and explainable AI-native capabilities, including