Software Development Engineer 3 - AI

About us

slice the way you bank

slices purpose is to make the world better at using money and time, with a major focus on building the best consumer experience for your money. Weve all felt how slow, confusing, and complicated banking can be. So, were reimagining it. Were building every product from scratch to be fast, transparent, and feel good, because we believe that the best products transcend demographics, like how great music touches most of us.

Our cornerstone products and services: slice savings account, slice UPI credit card, slice UPI, slice UPI ATMs, slice fixed deposits, slice borrow, and UPI-powered bank branch are designed to be simple, rewarding, and completely in your control. At slice, youll get to build things youd use yourself and shape the future of banking in India. We tailor our working experience with the belief that the present moment is the only real thing in life. And we have harmony in the present the most when we feel happy and successful together.

Were backed by some of the worlds leading investors, including Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Advent International, Blume Ventures, and Gunosy Capital.

About the team

Money generates incredibly rich behavioural data.

At slice, were building the intelligence layer that transforms raw financial signals into context-aware, personalized user experiences. This team operates at the intersection of backend engineering, data, and applied AI, solving problems that demand strong system design and modern AI capabilities.

Our focus is on making the slice app smarter, more intuitive, and deeply aligned with individual user behaviour - all while operating at scale, in real time, and with high reliability.

If youre excited about building AI-native systems that directly shape how users experience money, youll fit right in.

About the role

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer 3 (Backend) to join our technology team.

In this role, youll build scalable backend systems and AI-powered services that drive intelligent, personalized product experiences. Youll work on high-impact problems involving distributed systems, large-scale data, and modern AI/LLM capabilities deployed in production environments.

What You Will Do

• Design and build scalable backend systems powering intelligent, personalized product features
• Develop AI/LLM-driven capabilities that derive insights from behavioral and transaction data
• Build and deploy AI-powered services, assistants, or agentic workflows in production
• Develop orchestration layers for AI models, tools, and decision-making systems
• Work on data enrichment, classification, retrieval, and context-aware systems
• Own performance, latency, reliability, and cost efficiency of AI-integrated systems
• Collaborate with product, data, and design teams to translate evolving ideas into shipped experiences
• Contribute to architectural decisions around AI-native backend infrastructure
• Continuously improve system robustness, observability, and accuracy

What You Will Need

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience building scalable, distributed systems
• Strong system design fundamentals and API design expertise
• Proficiency in one or more backend languages (Java / Kotlin / Go / Python / Node.js)
• Experience working with data-intensive applications
• Hands-on experience integrating ML / LLM / GenAI capabilities into applications
• Experience building or deploying AI-powered features, assistants, or agent-based systems
• Familiarity with concepts like embeddings, RAG, vector databases, or model orchestration
• Experience deploying and operating AI/LLM-powered systems in production
• Understanding of latency, reliability, and cost trade-offs
• Comfort working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
• Strong problem-solving skills and product mindset

Bonus points if youve worked on:

• Personalisation systems, recommendation engines, AI assistants, or intelligent automation workflows

Life at slice

Life so good, youd think were kidding:

• Competitive salaries. Period.
• An extensive medical insurance that looks out for our employees & their dependents. Well love you and take care of you, our promise.
• Flexible working hours. Just dont call us at 3 AM, we like our sleep schedule.
• Tailored vacation & leave policies so that you enjoy every important moment in your life.
• A reward system that celebrates hard work and milestones throughout the year. Expect a gift coming your way anytime you kill it here.
• Learning and upskilling opportunities. Seriously, not kidding.
• Good food, games, and a cool office to make you feel at home. An environment so good, youll forget the term colleagues cant be your friends.