Senior AI Engineer (Fintech)

RELOCATION TO GERMANY | Forsyth Barnes

Our client develops financial software for small and medium-sized enterprises, focusing on automating accounting, tax, and payroll processes across European markets. The product integrates transactional bookkeeping, compliance workflows, and reconciliation tools to reduce manual effort and error in day-to-day finance operations. The engineering teams deliver cloud-native services that connect with banking APIs, tax authorities, and third-party payroll providers.

Job Description

The Senior AI Engineer will design and implement production-grade AI components that improve transactional accuracy, automate tax categorization, and assist customer workflows. The role requires leading cross-functional projects from prototype through deployment, ensuring models and agents meet reliability, latency, and privacy targets. Success is measured by reduced manual interventions, measurable accuracy gains, and stable, cost-effective AI services.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end development of AI features that automate accounting and tax tasks.
• Design LLM-based agents and pipelines for structured financial outputs and rule-based augmentation.
• Implement monitoring, testing, and observability for model behaviour and data quality.
• Collaborate with finance domain experts to translate regulatory rules into reliable AI logic.
• Optimize inference cost, latency, and scalability across cloud environments.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to AI engineering standards and best practices.
• Drive secure data handling and privacy-preserving model design for financial data.
• Ship iterative improvements with strong versioning and rollback procedures.