AI Engineer

About Alaan

Alaan is the Middle East’s first AI-powered spend management platform, built to help businesses save time and money. Our all-in-one solution combines smart corporate cards, real-time expense tracking, AI-powered automation, seamless accounting integrations, and deep financial insights- designed to simplify finance operations and maximize control over company spend. Founded in 2022, Alaan is already the trusted partner of over 2000 leading businesses across the UAE and KSA, including G42, Careem, McDonald’s, Tabby, Al Barari, Rove Hotels, Rivoli, and CarSwitch. Together, our customers have saved over AED 100 million with Alaan. In just three years, Alaan has become the #1 expense management platform in the Middle East- and we’ve done it while becoming profitable. Alaan is also backed by Y Combinator and top global investors, including Peak XV (formerly Sequoia India & SEA), and built by a world-class team with experience from McKinsey, BCG, Goldman Sachs, Careem, Rippling, and other high-growth companies. This creates an environment where employees learn from top-tier talent while building at startup speed. We’re not just building software. We’re reimagining how finance works for modern businesses across the region.

About the role

As an AI Engineer, you will own the development of production-grade AI applications - from early experimentation and prototyping to evaluation, deployment, and continuous improvement. This is not a pure research position. You will be expected to combine strong software engineering fundamentals with hands-on experience building applications using large language models and modern AI infrastructure. You will work on problems such as extracting and structuring financial data, automating expense workflows, building intelligent assistants, and helping customers interact more effectively with their financial information.

What you'll do

Design, build, and deploy AI-powered features across Alaan’s products.
Create reliable workflows for prompt management, model orchestration, tool calling, and structured outputs.
Build backend services and APIs that integrate AI capabilities into production applications.
Develop evaluation frameworks to measure the accuracy, relevance, reliability, latency, and cost of AI outputs.
Experiment with different models, prompting techniques, embeddings, retrieval strategies, and fine-tuning approaches.
Implement appropriate safeguards for sensitive financial and customer information.
Monitor AI systems in production and continuously improve their performance using user feedback and evaluation data.
Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, Data teams, and Backend Engineers to identify high-impact AI use cases.
Stay informed about developments in applied AI and determine which technologies are genuinely useful for Alaan.

What we are looking for

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