AI Engineer - Agentic Systems (LLMs and RAG)

Kredete is a financial technology platform that helps African immigrants in the diaspora build credit through instant international money transfers to 22+ countries, with low fees. We also offer businesses an API-based infrastructure for secure and low-cost cross-border payments to many African countries.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: AI Engineer - Agentic Systems (LLMs & RAG)

Location: Lagos

About The Role

• The engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, and deploying intelligent, scalable AI systems.
• The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with LangChain, n8n, and agentic workflows and Applied experience with multiple programming languages implementation
• We are looking for a highly skilled AI Engineer with strong experience in building agentic systems, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, and LLM-powered applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and orchestrate workflows using tools like n8n or similar automation platforms
• Integrate AI capabilities into existing products and services
• Develop agentic workflows that can reason, plan, and execute tasks autonomously
• Develop APIs and backend services to support AI features
• Optimize model performance, latency, and cost efficiency
• Build and optimize RAG pipelines integrating vector databases and external data sources
• Stay up to date with advancements in AI, LLMs, and autonomous agents
• Design and implement LLM-powered applications using frameworks such as LangChain
• Collaborate with product, data, and engineering teams to define AI-driven solutions
• Work with embeddings, vector stores, and semantic search systems

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Solid understanding of:
• Hands-on experience building RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems
• Strong experience with LangChain or similar LLM orchestration frameworks
• Rust
• Vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS)
• Experience with n8n or other workflow automation/orchestration tools
• Experience designing agentic workflows / autonomous agents
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages such as:
• Willing to travel to our Hubs as needed (Lagos, London, Riga)
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Embeddings and semantic search
• Prompt engineering and LLM evaluation
• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs
• JavaScript / TypeScript
• Strong problem-solving and system design skills
• Python (preferred)
• Golang

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with knowledge graphs or structured data systems
• Experience with multi-agent systems and orchestration
• Knowledge of fine-tuning and model optimization techniques
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
• Background in fintech, payments, or data-intensive applications.
• Experience building production-grade AI systems with monitoring and observability

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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