AI Engineer (Temporary position -Maternity leave)
Herzliya, Tel Aviv District, Israel
Platform (Product & Technology Group)
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.
- Build backend services in Node.js (TypeScript) to run and serve agents across multiple products and channels.
- Implement agent workflows: routing, orchestration, tool calling, and synthesizing results into UI/API-ready outputs.
- Build and maintain high-quality Tools agents consume: secure internal API connectors, data fetchers, business logic wrappers, and knowledge retrieval.
- Add observability: tracing, logging, prompt/model versioning, token/cost tracking, and quality metrics.
- Create evaluation harnesses: regression checks, and feedback loops to continuously improve accuracy and reliability.
- Collaborate with Product/Operations/Security
- 3 years of hands-on Node.js + TypeScript experience
- BS Degree in computer science
- Experience building backend services (preferably NestJS)
- Strong fundamentals: REST APIs, async patterns, debugging, performance considerations
- Experience working with data sources (SQL and NoSQL)
- Experience with distributed systems: caching (Redis), queues (Kafka/RabbitMQ), containers/K8s
- Strong knowledge in CI/CD + feature flags + environment separation (dev/test/prod)
- Strong learning ability - fast to pick up new domains, tools, and patterns, and comfortable working in ambiguity
- High ownership and strong work ethic - motivated, proactive, and willing to work hard to deliver high-impact outcomes
- Team player with clear communication skills and a practical, solution-oriented mindset
- LLM/agent experience (OpenAI/Azure OpenAI, LangChain/LangGraph, function/tool calling) - Nice to have
- Observability tools (Langfuse, OpenTelemetry, Grafana/Datadog, etc.) - Nice to have
- Build a foundational AI capability that will power multiple high-impact use cases across the company
- Work on real production constraints: reliability, security, cost control, and measurable outcomes
- High ownership and strong technical depth with fast iteration and visible business impact
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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.
