Senior AI-Native Engineer
Payoneer is hiring a Senior AI-Native Engineer in Gurugram, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Payoneer.
Level's read on this job
- Uses AI ●●○○ is how Level rates this role: an ordinary role that requires AI tools.
- The posting mentions prompt engineering, RAG and AI agents among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a senior role.
- Payoneer has 100 other open roles on Level.
AI in this role
About Payoneer
Founded in 2005, Payoneer is the global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders, with a mission to connect the world’s underserved businesses to a rising global economy. We’re a community with over 2,500 colleagues all over the world, working to serve customers, and partners in over 190 countries and territories.
By taking the complexity out of the financial workflows–including everything from global payments and compliance to multi-currency and workforce management, to providing working capital and business intelligence–we give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence.
Role summary
You will join a high-impact AI engineering team within R&D, owning problems end-to-end from understanding the business need, through architecture and implementation, to production monitoring. This is a new way of working at Payoneer: you'll work directly with business stakeholders, ship AI-driven capabilities at speed, and help define the methodology as we build it.
As a member of the AI Foundations organization, you will lead best practices, champion early adoption of new technologies, and influence the direction of our R&D guild - building and shipping cutting-edge agentic applications that deliver seamless experiences to our users.
Location
Hybrid - Gurgaon
Full-time
What you'll do
- Own the full development loop understand the business problem, define the solution, architect it, build it, ship it, and monitor it in production
- Use AI as your primary development tool, achieving in a day what used to take a team a week
- Collaborate with your team and business stakeholders to define decision logic, risk thresholds, and success metrics
- Design and build evaluation frameworks as part of every solution you don't ship what you can't measure
- Own production readiness monitoring, alerting, and observability go in on day one
- Contribute to shaping team practices, tooling, and engineering standards across the pod
- Decompose business problems into agentic workflows, orchestrated flows, and reusable capabilities.
Who you are
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, building and operating production systems
- Hands-on experience with AI/ML systems in production not just prototyping, but shipping, monitoring, and iterating
- Genuine fluency with AI-powered development tools you use them daily to move faster
- Experience designing agentic architectures: orchestration, multi-step workflows, RAG pipelines, fallback and error handling
- Strong evaluation instincts you define metrics, build test sets, and validate before shipping
- Comfortable across the full stack you move between prompt engineering, backend services, data pipelines, and infrastructure as needed
- High degree of independence you lead work from problem definition to production without waiting for detailed specs
- Excellent communication you flag risks early, give direct feedback, and collaborate openly Fintech or regulated-environment experience is an advantage
The Payoneer Ways of Working
Act as our customer’s partner on the inside
Learning what they need and creating what will help them go further.
Do it. Own it.
Being fearlessly accountable in everything we do.
Continuously improve
Always striving for a higher standard than our last.
Build each other up
Helping each other grow, as professionals and people.
If this sounds like a business, a community, and a mission you want to be part of, apply today.
We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace. Payoneer is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment no matter your race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require reasonable accommodation at any stage of the hiring process, please speak to the recruiter managing the role for any adjustments. Decisions about requests for reasonable accommodation are made on a case-by-case basis.
How we rate this
Senior AI-Native Engineer at Payoneer rates 43 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Uses AI. An ordinary role that requires AI tools.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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Skills and AI tools this role asks for
Questions you could be asked
- How do you structure and test a prompt to get consistent output from a language model?
- How would you design a retrieval step so the model answers from real data instead of guessing?
- How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
- This role expects you to use AI tools as part of the job. Which ones have you used, and for what?
- Tell me about a time an AI tool got something wrong. How did you catch it?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Prompt engineering, RAG, and AI agents. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Put the AI tool in a bullet point about what you did, not just in a skills list. This role treats it as a required part of the job.
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