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Senior AI Engineer

Job in Durbanville, 7550, South Africa
Listing for: I Grow Wealth Investments
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-08-30
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    AI Engineer (Applied/Software), Backend Developer, Database Engineering
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Location: Durbanville

Minimum requirements (Advantageous):

  • Advanced commercial Node.js experience.
  • Advanced Type Script.
  • Strong backend software engineering and API design.
  • Strong PostgreSQL knowledge.
  • Solid understanding of relational data modelling and database performance.
  • Practical understanding of LLMs and modern AI application development.
  • Understanding of embeddings, semantic similarity and vector search.
  • Experience with or strong understanding of vector databases / pgvector.
  • Understanding of graph databases and knowledge graphs.
  • Understanding of agentic AI, tool calling and multi-step AI workflows.
  • Experience building integrations between different systems and APIs.
  • Comfortable with asynchronous processing, queues, scheduled jobs and event-driven architectures.
  • Strong Git and modern software-development practices.
  • Experience using AI coding agents/coding assistants as part of serious software development, not simply autocomplete.
  • AWS, Docker, ECS, S3, Redis, Bedrock, OpenAI, Anthropic, Mastra, MCP, RAG architectures, pgvector, Neo4j or other graph databases.
  • OAuth/OIDC, event-driven architectures, workflow engines and infrastructure as code.
Duties and responsibilities include, but not limited to:
  • Build production AI applications and agentic systems using Node.js and Type Script.
  • Design backend services, APIs, integrations and event-driven systems.
  • Build agentic workflows where AI agents use tools, data and other agents to complete real business tasks.
  • Work with LLMs from multiple providers and understand model selection, context management and tool/function calling.
  • Design and implement AI memory and organisational knowledge systems.
  • Work extensively with PostgreSQL, including schema design, complex queries, performance and production data architecture.
  • Implement embeddings, semantic search, RAG and vector retrieval, including PostgreSQL/pgvector and dedicated vector databases where appropriate.
  • Understand and work with graph data and graph databases, including relationships between people, systems, processes, documents and organisational knowledge.
  • Build integrations with internal and external systems through APIs, MCP servers and other tool interfaces.
  • Design reliable long-running AI processes involving scheduled events, human approvals and asynchronous execution.
  • Use modern AI coding agents as a core part of the development process while maintaining engineering quality, testing and code review.
  • Help establish engineering patterns, reusable components and technical standards for AI-first development.
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Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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