Software Development Engineer -AI

About Us:

Airtel Payments Bank, India's first payments bank is a completely digital and paperless bank. The bank aims to take basic banking services to the doorstep of every Indian by leveraging Airtel's vast retail network in a quick and efficient manner. At Airtel Payments Bank, we’re transforming the way banking operates in the country. Our core business is banking and we’ve set out to serve each unbanked and underserved Indian. Our products and technology aim to take basic banking services to the doorstep of every Indian. We are a fun-loving, energetic and fast growing company that breathes innovation. We encourage our people to push boundaries and evolve from skilled professionals of today to risk-taking entrepreneurs of tomorrow. We hire people from every realm and offer them opportunities that encourage individual and professional growth. We are always looking for people who are thinkers & doers; people with passion, curiosity & conviction; people who are eager to break away from conventional roles and do 'jobs never done before

What are we working on?

• Increasing productivity of the developers by AI Assistant like Amazon Q, Claude, Kiro Or GitHub Co-pilot usage
• AI platform to design, build, deploy and manage AI agents.
• Run and use contextual LLMs, SLMs to solve business problems.
• Creating knowledgebase, awareness, and repository of AI in bank.

Required Technical Skills

• Hands-on Backend Development: 1-3 years of core backend experience using Java, Python, Go, Node.js, or BI tools.
• Language Agnostic: High proficiency in at least one core language, with a strong willingness to switch languages dynamically based on project needs.
• AI Orchestration Frameworks: Hands-on awareness or active utilization of agentic workflows such as LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, or Strands.
• Advanced RAG & Vector Databases: Practical knowledge of building Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines using vector infrastructure such as Pinecone, ChromaDB, Milvus, Qdrant, or pgvector.
• Prompt Engineering: Experience writing, testing, and optimizing prompts for deterministic, secure, and reliable LLM outputs.

Preferred (Plus) Qualifications

• Graph Databases & Caching: Exposure to Graph RAG concepts using Neo4j or semantic caching via Redis to optimize LLM response latency.
• Context Engineering & SDD: Experience in SDD or context engineering for complex banking data models.
• Traditional AI/ML: Foundational understanding of traditional machine learning algorithms, data preprocessing, and statistical modelling.
• AI Security & Compliance: Familiarity with guardrails (e.g., NeMo Guardrails) and data privacy techniques to safely handle sensitive data.

1-3 years of experience in hand-on BE - java/python/node/GO/BI, prompt engineering, AI/ML, worked in fast paced deliveries.

Why Join Us?

Airtel Payments Bank is transforming from a digital-first bank to one of the largest Fintech company. There could not be a better time to join us and be a part of this incredible journey than now. We at Airtel payments bank don’t believe in all work and no play philosophy. For us, innovation is a way of life and we are a happy bunch of people who have built together an ecosystem that drives financial inclusion in the country by serving 300 million financially unbanked, underbanked, and underserved population of India. Some defining characteristics of life at Airtel Payments Bank are Responsibility, Agility, Collaboration and Entrepreneurial development : these also reflect in our core values that we fondly call RACE..