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Senior AI Engineer

Well-funded checkout and payments platform, remote

Comp at placement$185k - $225k + equityEquityRemote (US) · Remote
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About the role

Payments products have no tolerance for flaky features, so this search was for an AI engineer with backend discipline: someone who has shipped LLM-powered features to customers, instrumented them, and improved them after launch. The role sits inside the product engineering org and builds features like risk signals, support automation, and merchant-facing assistants on top of a high-throughput, event-driven system.

What the role owned

  • LLM-powered product features from design through production operation.
  • Retrieval, evaluation, and monitoring so features stay accurate as data and models change.
  • Backend services in Python and TypeScript inside an event-driven, high-volume platform.
  • Working with product and risk teams to ship features that hold up under real transaction volume.

What the client was looking for

  • Has shipped customer-facing AI features, not internal experiments.
  • Strong backend engineering fundamentals and production operations experience.
  • Knows when to prompt, retrieve, fine-tune, or go agentic, and can explain the tradeoffs.
  • Comfortable in a fast, remote-first engineering culture with a high bar.

Nice to have

  • Fintech, payments, or fraud and risk experience.
  • Fine-tuning or large-scale evaluation pipelines.

How the search ran

Confidential search. Screened live, short list of four, closed in 38 days.