Senior Agentic Engineer

About the role

The Senior Agentic Engineer will play a crucial role in building the systems and pipelines that power Uphold's AI-native approach to software development. This position involves designing, building, and iterating on agentic development infrastructure, including orchestration layers, automation pipelines, and tooling that enable AI agents to collaborate effectively with engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design and build agentic development pipelines that take features from specification through to pull request with human oversight at every critical stage.
• Create the orchestration infrastructure that enables AI agents to collaborate effectively with engineers across the development lifecycle.
• Directly improve engineering velocity by shipping tooling that reduces cycle time from idea to production.
• Establish patterns and best practices for agentic system design that scale across the organization.
• Contribute to making Uphold one of the first fintech companies to operate with a truly AI-native engineering workflow.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with strong fundamentals in system design and architecture.
• Hands-on production experience with agentic AI frameworks and modern AI coding assistants integrated into your own daily workflow.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and infrastructure automation.
• Comfort working in ambiguous, rapidly evolving problem spaces where you're defining the approach as you go.
• Strong communication skills — able to document systems clearly and collaborate effectively across teams.
• A builder's mindset: you'd rather ship a working V1 and iterate than debate the perfect architecture in a doc.
• Fluency in English (written and spoken).

Bonus Points

• If you have experience in fintech, crypto, or regulated industries.
• If you have a background in developer experience, internal tools, or platform engineering.
• If you have contributed to open-source projects related to AI/ML tooling or developer infrastructure.

What You'll Be Doing

Primarily, you will build and maintain agentic orchestration systems that coordinate AI agents across code generation, testing, review, and deployment stages. You will also design and implement the feedback loops, guardrails, and quality gates that ensure agentic output meets production standards in a regulated fintech environment. Additionally, you will develop internal tooling and developer experience improvements that make agentic workflows accessible and reliable for the wider engineering team. You will iterate rapidly on pipeline architecture, running experiments, measuring impact on engineering throughput, and doubling down on what works. You will collaborate closely with the Agentic Engineering Lead to translate strategic AI adoption goals into concrete, shippable systems. You will evaluate and integrate AI models, coding assistants, and agent frameworks, providing hands-on assessments of what works for our specific stack and domain. Finally, you will instrument and monitor agentic systems to ensure reliability, security, and compliance, particularly important given Uphold's regulatory obligations.

Our Benefits

• Annual bonus program based on individual, team and company performance.
• Generous PTO, healthcare, and employee assistance programs.
• Engaging events and celebrations.
• Well-stocked office kitchen with a foodie culture.