# AI Tech Lead

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: Ramat-Gan
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced AI Tech Lead to lead the design and development of scalable backend systems and production-grade AI applications.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role combining deep Python/backend engineering expertise with proven experience building and deploying GenAI applications and AI agents used by end users in production.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Lead the architecture and development of scalable Python backend systems, services, and APIs.

- Design distributed systems and microservices with a focus on performance, scalability, reliability, and security.

- Remain hands-on with architecture, coding, code reviews, and complex technical problem-solving.

- Define engineering best practices across backend and AI development.

**AI & Agentic Engineering**

- Design and build production-grade GenAI applications and AI agents used by end users.

- Build agentic workflows including LLM orchestration, tool calling, context management, memory, and service integrations.

- Integrate LLMs and other AI models into scalable production applications.

- Build solutions using technologies such as Amazon Bedrock, OpenAI, LangChain, and LangGraph.

- Implement LLM evaluation, tracing, monitoring, and observability.

- Optimize AI solutions for quality, latency, reliability, scalability, and cost.

- Take AI capabilities from experimentation and POC through to production and end-user adoption.

**Team Leadership & Delivery**

- Lead, mentor, and provide technical guidance to backend and/or full-stack engineers.

- Partner with Product, AI/Data, DevOps, and Architecture teams to define and deliver technical solutions.

- Drive complex projects from design through deployment and production monitoring.

- Foster a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, innovation, and quality.

**Required Qualifications**

- 8+ years of software engineering experience with strong backend development expertise.

- Strong hands-on Python experience, particularly building production backend services and applications.

- 2+ years in a technical leadership or Tech Lead role.

- Proven experience designing large-scale distributed systems and microservices.

- Hands-on experience building and deploying GenAI applications and AI agents in production.

- Experience taking LLM/agentic solutions beyond POC into applications used by end users.

- Experience with LLMs, agent orchestration, tool calling, context management, and AI/backend integrations.

- Experience with Amazon Bedrock, OpenAI, LangChain, LangGraph, or similar technologies.

- Understanding of production AI considerations including evaluation, observability, latency, reliability, scalability, and cost.

- Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, as well as Docker and Kubernetes.

- Strong system design and problem-solving skills.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- backend development
- GenAI applications
- AI agents
- LLMs
- Amazon Bedrock
- OpenAI
- LangChain
- LangGraph
- cloud platforms
- Docker
- Kubernetes

### Nice to have
- multi-step or multi-agent AI systems
- LLM evaluation and observability tools
- RAG
- retrieval systems
- embeddings
- vector search
- real-time data technologies
- Node.js

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