Senior AI Engineer

About the Position

Backbase introduces Delivery Factory

Senior AI Engineer

We opened the doors of our Business Development Centre (BDC) in the heart of Hyderabad in December 2020. Young at heart, the BDC is a wonderful space that strengthens Backbase’s presence in the APAC region. The physical presence of great talent and support also makes way for long-term relationships with customers.

Nestled in the middle of Hyderabad, the state-of-the-art building sits amidst other global brands. The location offers stunning views of hills and lakes, while nearby there is a selection of restaurants, traditional bazaars, and other cultural hotspots.

At Backbase, we build AI-powered, secure, enterprise-grade digital banking software used daily by millions worldwide. With seamless integration, unified data, agentic AI, and a complete banking suite built for every line of business, you'll be building the next generation of banking.

As a Senior AI Engineer, you will drive the AI-native engineering of our product across the software development lifecycle, following and improving our way of working, and refining our best practices. You will lead the team in ensuring our practices are not only best practice and efficient but continually evolving and improving to use AI principles.

Responsibilities

• Platform Development: Help design, build, and maintain one or more capabilities for the Backbase Mobile Platform, working closely with the Principal Engineers.
• Engineering & Quality: Build, improve, and grow SDKs and libraries to revolutionize Identity and Authentication for mobile banking. Write clean, maintainable Swift code to create scalable features that other developers can use seamlessly. Developing features with native frameworks and cutting-edge Apple technologies, collaborating with others in the squad and other mobile squads to bring in the latest ways to develop. Responsible for upholding our engineering standards across the product, proactively proposing and leading initiatives within your squad to improve engineering excellence.
• Agile & CI/CD: Automate testing while working closely with QAs to achieve an 80% minimum unit test coverage using frameworks like XCTest and XCUITest. You have a strong engineering culture in all parts of the SDLC, working in Agile practices to deliver a complete product. CI/CD practices are part of your mantra, ideally with Bitrise and GitHub Actions.
• AI-Native Mindset: Showing an AI-Native mindset, you will proactively explore, experiment with, and apply AI tools and agentic frameworks (e.g., code generation, test automation, dev productivity). Encourage AI adoption across engineering workflows and product capabilities.
• Collaboration: Contribute to all aspects of product development, starting from gathering feedback & requirements and implementing actual functionality, to writing tests, documentation and providing product adoption support to colleagues, customers and partners.

Requirements

• Experience: 8+ years of professional experience in native iOS development.
• Languages: Strong proficiency in Swift and practical experience with Objective-C.
• Domain: Experience developing applications in the FinTech, Banking, or Payments space.
• Architecture: Expertise in modern iOS architectural patterns (e.g., MVVM, VIPER, Clean Architecture) and development frameworks (e.g., SwiftUI, UIKit, Combine/RxSwift).
• Concurrency & Integration: Solid experience integrating with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and asynchronous programming (e.g., Grand Central Dispatch (GCD), async/await, Combine).
• Security & Tools: Strong understanding of mobile security best practices (e.g., Keychain, Biometrics). Experience with version control systems like Git.

Nice to Have

• In-depth knowledge of mobile application security and data encryption standards
• Experience with dependency managers like Swift Package Manager (SPM) or CocoaPods.
• Familiarity with mobile analytics, A/B testing, and crash reporting tools (e.g., Firebase, Crashlytics).
• Experience with building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions).
• Published one or more iOS applications on the Apple App Store.

We Offer

• Ownership: Real ownership means real responsibility. From day one, you set the pace, make the decisions, and see your work land where it matters. You drive the outcomes, you celebrate the wins.
• Standards: The work is the standard. We built something that didn't exist before - an AI-native Banking OS where humans and AI agents work side by side, at scale, inside real banks. We raise the bar because we've seen what's possible when you don't settle.
• Ambition: Ambition without ego. You'll work with people who've shipped things most thought couldn't be done. Direct, down-to-earth, no egos. The kind of team where the best idea wins and everyone's genuinely glad when it does.
• Real AI: Real AI, running in real banks. We're not waiting for AI to be ready. It already is - running inside banks, serving customers, solving problems that matter, out in the real world today.
• Growth: Grow while you build. Annual learning budget, global exposure, and work that moves you forward. Your growth and our mission go hand in hand.
• Flexibility: 17 offices. One mission. Hybrid model, no micromanagement, offices across the world. The mission is clear. Where you do your best work is up to you.
• Wellness: Wellness that goes the distance. Real support built for the long game. We invest in the people who build the product, not just the product.

About the Company

Backbase is a leading provider of digital banking software, empowering banks and financial institutions to deliver exceptional customer experiences. Our innovative solutions are used by millions of customers worldwide, and we are committed to pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the digital banking space.