India onlyAI Platform Engineer
Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Come thrive at Tandems! We build intelligent solutions that reimagine how advice is delivered, how institutions operate, and how expertise is unlocked at scale. Our AI-enabled platform empowers advisors, bankers, and agents with deeper insights, personalized recommendations, and more time to focus on guiding clients through life’s most important decisions. We are pioneering Finance With Intelligence, where technology amplifies human impact instead of replacing it.
Through partnerships with some of the world’s largest and most innovative financial institutions like Wells Fargo, Citizens Bank and ScotiaBank, we seek to help our clients make better financial decisions.
About the Team and Opportunity
The Engineering Team designs, builds, and maintains the systems that power Tandems’ AI-enabled platform, which reimagines how financial advice is delivered, how institutions operate, and how advisors help clients succeed. We build:
- Client-facing applications that enable seamless onboarding, personalized advice, and digital collaboration.
- Algorithms and investment systems that support smarter portfolio management and better financial outcomes.
- AI-powered tools that give advisors intelligent insights, streamline workflows, and enhance client engagement across our products: TandemsInvest, TandemsMeet, and TandemsGrow.
As an AI Platform Engineer, you’ll design and develop the foundational capabilities that make our AI-powered products possible — from retrieval and orchestration layers to model integration and evaluation frameworks. You’ll work across the stack to turn LLM capabilities into production-ready, compliant, and reliable features that directly impact how advisors engage with their clients.
Why Work for Us
- We are 100+ employees strong and growing. Our world-class team is supported by an industry-savvy board and an executive team of diverse background and experience across financial services and technology.
- We offer competitive benefits that include Flexible PTO, Wellness benefits, Mobile/Internet subsidy, Employee Recognition Programs, and more!
- We are a remote-first company! We have regional hubs nationwide, with presence in 4 Countries: United States, Canada, India, and Singapore.
- We embrace a culture that honors and celebrates diversity of backgrounds, approaches, and experiences.
- We are guided by our core values: Customer Delight, Make It Happen, Think Big, and We Over Me. Read more about our core values and how we live them every day on our website here.
How You’ll Make an Impact
- Design and build the core AI platform services that power advisor-facing features such as intelligent insights, meeting summaries, and next-step recommendations.
- Develop and maintain retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and semantic search pipelines that allow our models to access and reason over financial data securely and efficiently.
- Integrate foundation models (OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, or open-source alternatives) into scalable microservices and APIs.
- Create and manage prompt orchestration and versioning frameworks to support consistent and reliable AI responses across products.
- Develop evaluation, monitoring, and observability systems to ensure AI quality, compliance, and performance in production.
- Optimize inference performance, latency, and cost through model routing, caching, and fine-tuning strategies.
- Collaborate closely with product teams to enable new AI capabilities and ensure that AI outputs align with financial domain standards and regulations.
- Stay current with LLM and agentic technology advancements and help shape how Tandems applies them to real-world advisor workflows.
Ideal Person for this Role
- Core Engineering Skills:
- 4+ years of software engineering experience with production systems
- Strong proficiency in Python and hands-on experience with LLM application frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, or DSPy)
- Proven experience building agent workflows and orchestrating multi-step AI processes
- Deep understanding of foundation model APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, or open-source models via Replicate/Hugging Face)
- Experience with prompt engineering, including techniques like few-shot learning, chain-of-thought, and prompt chaining
- Hands-on experience implementing RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems with vector databases
- Agent Development Experience:
- Building autonomous and semi-autonomous agent systems that can plan, use tools, and execute multi-step tasks
- Implementing tool-calling and function-calling patterns with LLMs
- Creating agent memory systems (conversation history, long-term memory, knowledge bases)
- Orchestrating multi-agent systems or agent handoffs
- Experience with agent evaluation, debugging, and observability (using tools like LangSmith, Weights & Biases, or custom solutions)
- Foundation Model Integration:
- Managing different foundation models for specific tasks (routing between models based on complexity/cost/speed)
- Implementing streaming responses and real-time user interactions
- Handling context window management and conversation pruning strategies
- Building fallback and error recovery mechanisms for AI systems
- Cost optimization and rate limit management across multiple model providers
Perks and Benefits
- Tax-friendly Compensation
- Liberal Leave Policy
- Medical cover for the family, including parents
- Quarterly Wellness Benefit
- WFH Allowance
- Mobile/Internet subsidy (for smooth WFH experience)
- Employee Referral Program
- Employee Recognition Program
- And more!
Tandems is backed by premier venture capital firms, including Bain Capital Ventures, General Atlantic, Nyca Partners, and Union Square Ventures as well as leading financial institutions including Wells Fargo, UBS, Santander, New York Life, and Comerica. We've raised over $100 million to support our growth as a leading technology provider to financial institutions.
© Nvest. All rights reserved, Tandems is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We encourage people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives to apply.
San Francisco Applicants: Tandems will consider applicants with arrest and conviction records (criminal histories) in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
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